Natasha Alam

TV Series True Blood

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844441/

NA: The people on the show are so great, and nice, and supportive. It was really a pleasure to work on that show. Kristin is this loving, very maternal creature. She’s so sweet. When you meet her the first time, she gives you so much great, comfortable energy that you feel like you’ve known her most of your life. She helped me with my mom’s immigration papers, giving me advice and tips from when her husband went through the process.

Alexander was very helpful, especially the first day. The first day on the show, we were supposed to shoot a sex scene. We were both naked and I was tied up to the ceiling, and I was really nervous because I’d never done anything graphic like that. I wasn’t sure what protocol was. Did we rehearse like that? Was I supposed to keep my hands in the ropes the whole time? It was stressful, but then Alexander walks in and he was just really cool about it. He drops his robe and he’s totally naked there, not even wearing the modesty underwear, and that really helped me for him to be so nonchalant about it. His confidence gave me confidence.

T-B.net: That was quite an intense scene they started you with!

NA: Uh, yeah! [laughs] I compare it to when you teach kids to swim by just throwing them in the water. After that scene, everything was easy!