Posted by Adam

Wednesday August 18, 2010

ALEXANDER Skarsgard doesn’t cover his manhood when he is shooting sex scenes for True Blood.

The Swedish star — who plays vampire Eric Northman in the hit TV drama — doesn’t opt for a modesty saving “sock” like many of his fellow actors and insists he is happy to be nude on set.

“I don’t want a sock around it — that feels ridiculous,” he told Rolling Stone magazine.

“If we’re naked in the scene, then I’m naked. I’ve always been that way.”

However, Alexander’s costar Stephen Moyer — who is engaged to Anna Paquin — does opt for something to cover his appendage.

“I’ve got nothing to hide,” he said. “I just think it might be embarrassing for the crew.”

Stephen — who plays vampire Bill Compton in the series — thinks one of the main reasons why True Blood is popular is because people find vampires “sexy”.

“If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn’t one before,” he said.

“It’s a de-virginisation — creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. And there’s something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that’s pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive.”

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