Deborah Ann Woll: An Angel Who Plays a Demon on "True Blood"

Do you think vampires are real?

Yes.

I'm Oliver Trana here at the Young Hollywood studio with the lovely Deborah Ann Woll. How are you?

Hello. I'm wonderful. Thank you.

Thank you for stopping in.

My pleasure.

And three names. Very greedy.

Yes. Yes. Well, you know, my father picked Deborah, my mother picked Ann. So I figured I should use them both.

Onorable both. Right. Okay. Season five. True Blood. You are the coolest vampire I ever met. You really are.

Thank you.

I believe it was to you. I believe it was. I better be gone when I get back. You're Jessica?

I am. Yeah, but not now.

Well, who knows? Oh, hang on. Don't stop. That's why they made you sit further away. I was going to say, don't stop biting me but then the other side of my mind queued in and said, let her bite you. Now, it's just weird. Um, what can we expect from Jessica?

Oh, gosh. Lots of antics. She's single now. Okay. So, she's going to have some fun.

As single people do.

As single people do. And and a lot of anguish.

Right. Okay. Uh, blood, lots. We can see lots of blood.

Lots of blood. Jessica cries more than anyone else and of course these are blood tears. I'm always covered in blood.

How does that work, the blood tears?

Oh, they're fun.

Are they real tears?

Sometimes they are and sometimes they're not. It depends on what they need them for. Sometimes we just cry and they color it in later and otherwise they'll paint them on.

Can you just cue tears?

Well, no. You do your best to feel the emotion and hopefully you cry.

Right. But what if you cried and they didn't want the tears?

Then it's a problem. I have actually more often gotten the note, we need you not to cry because we don't have the money to make them blood.

Okay. I heard that you to get into the part of Jessica you watched animal attacks.

I did. You know, vampires are predators and that's something that as humans we don't really understand much anymore. So I watched it one to get into the mindset of prey of actually someone wanting to attack you as a human and then on the reverse as a predator.

What was the best animal attack that you saw? What animals attack really well?

Crocodiles.

Crocodiles.

Crocodiles are really terrifying because they can't rip flesh so they have to twist. So they bite and then they spin to sort of twist the flesh off. It's really fascinating. I haven't found a way yet to use that in True Blood but I would love to eventually.

Why do you think the vampire thing is so huge right now?

Well I do, yeah. I do think it's sexy. I do think there's something about the fact that they hide amongst us that it's this inner quality that they look like humans but there's something sexy and dangerous underneath it all and the idea that anyone you see out in the street might have that.

Do you think vampires are real?

Yes. Just say yes. It makes it all the more exciting. I want you to watch the show so.

Well, fans out there, I'm sure do believe that vampires are real. Crazy fan stories? I'm you must They're pretty hardcore.

You know I do have one. They are very hardcore. This was more strange. I was, you know, I was on a cruise with my boyfriend and his family. And, you know, when you're on a cruise you're all sort of trapped on this boat so you can't get away from anyone. This one older man recognized me. And he couldn't remember the name of the character. So he called me Barbara. He called me Jasmine. I had a couple of different names and for some reason every time he seen me he go, meow. Like the sassy cat sound. And I couldn't figure out what sassy cat had to do with vampires.

Okay. You've used that same line in bars before.

Yeah. Yeah. But he would go, hey Barbara. Right. I was like, what is that about?

Um, and you work with a charity as well that we were just talking about.

Oh, yeah. I work with the Choroioremia Research Foundation. It's the CRF. Um, my boyfriend has an eye disease. He's uh, legally blind. And so they're helping to raise money for a treatment and a cure. So we raise a lot of money for them. He is this year running a marathon a month blindfolded with a guide.

Wow. So he's doing this crazy, crazy thing. That's some fit human being.

Yeah. And he didn't start out that way. You know, he really worked hard to get there. So he's he's not an athlete. He's just got willpower.

Right. Well, I I read up on it and it is one of them, you know, diseases that isn't knowledgeable out there, which it really should be more.

Well, it's it's very rare. It's it's interesting how many people we talk to who think that blindness has been cured. Right. At least um, you know, genetic blindness and it hasn't. And particularly this disease uh, which affects a very small group of people. It's families. So it's really just us, families and friends raising money. There's no pharmaceutical help. So we really try to get the word out there.

Right. Well, everyone check that out because it's important. And what uh, you've got another film coming up, right? You've got a film that you just shot.

Ruby Sparks.

Ruby Sparks. Yes. Which looks really lovely. It's like one of them films even just watching the trailer I got emotional. It's it's basically about a guy that writes a woman to life. He's writes her to life.

Yes. I've been writing non-stop since I saw the trailer. But nothing's appeared.

Well, it's it's cute because it's a little bit of if you have that much power over how someone is, are they still as interesting to you or is that is that true power or is that, you know, a problem? Lots of secret messages in the film. Very smart. Deborah, she's an angel. Watch her in True Blood where she won't be an angel. Thanks for stopping in.

Thank you.