'True Blood' trivia and fun facts

To shoot the title sequence, the production crew took a 4 day trip to Louisiana, Chicago (where the church was filmed), and Seattle (for the bar scenes and writhing bodies). They would jump out of their cars as soon as they saw something they liked, or got permission to shoot people's homes, like the man in the rocking chair. He later had a few beers with them. Executive producer Mark Bayshore is the man dancing with the girl, her arm around him, and his sons are the boys with berry juice over their faces.

The books are told from Sookie's perspective, but the series breaks away from this approach.

Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Ryan Kwanten and Nelsan Ellis are the only actors to appear in every episode of the series. Scott Winant is the only director who worked on every season.

The title sequence avoids using any of the actors because Alan Ball dislikes other TV shows that do that. Since we're watching these people for the next hour anyway he doesn't see the point in it.

Each episode title is also the title of a song from popular or Christian music.

Kristin Bauer van Straten always panics when she has to say things in Swedish.

Fiona Shaw portrays a witch in this series. Ironically, her most famous role is of Petunia Dursley in the "Harry Potter" films, a woman that despises the supernatural and witchcraft.