The King has been Crowned

[buckeyechick47]

Ausiello reports first casting of season 3 of Vampire King Russell Edgington.

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Insert your own fresh meat joke here: Off my just-completed one-on-one with Alan Ball (the Q&A is coming soon!), I’ve learned that True Blood has cast Tony winner Denis O’Hare (Take Me Out) as the king of Mississippi.

The veteran actor’s name may not be a household one, but you’ve for sure seen him. He’s appeared in roughly a million movies (Milk, Duplicity, Quarantine) and pretty much that many TV series, too (most notably a 10-episode run on Brothers & Sisters).

O’Hare joins True Blood as a series regular. He’ll debut early into the show’s third season, slated to air next summer.

Thoughts? Happy that Evan Rachel Wood’s queen won’t be the only royal on tap for the future? Sound off below.

[jhd]

Wow, he pretty much looks exactly how I pictured Russell when I was reading the books. If he sounds like how I heard it in my head then I will be completely freaked out, considering I have NO idea who this actor is.

[buckeyechick47]

I'm picturing Russell as someone short in stature but now that you said something this actor does sort of look like Russell though in my mind I was picturing the actor who played Mr. Collins in the Keira Knightley version of P&P lol (sort of short, on the akward side though as a king he really wouldn't be so awkward but I'm viewing what he might have been like as a human).

[jhd]

Tom Hollender? He could have worked too, now that I think about it.

[buckeyechick47]

If that's the actor's name who played Mr. Collins then yes.