True Blood‘s Anna Paquin has posed naked in a coffin with husband Stephen Moyer ahead of the show’s final season.
The couple – who star as Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton in the HBO drama – revealed that they had to work on some “odd s**t” for the final episodes.
The couple posed for the cover of the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly, and spoke about Moyer’s experience directing a love scene between his wife and Joe Manganiello, who plays Alcide.
Moyer said:
“There are moments where I’ll be watching on a monitor [and say], ‘Oh, Joe, just move your hand up towards Anna’s breast. Good. And can you move your right thumb just a little bit towards her nipple? Great.’
“And then I’ll go, ‘Babe, babe, enjoy it’. I’m certainly talking to her as ‘babe’. ‘Darling, go for it. Yeah, feel the nipple.'”
Paquin admitted that they “set the bar very high for weird very early on” during their time on the show:
“We’ve done a lot of odd s**t on this show. Actually, the potentially awkward couplings [are] not the weirdest s**t that we’ve done on this show.
Moyer added:
“In a funny way, I feel like – without revealing too much – it’s quite interesting for us as a couple because we’ve kind of gone to places where a lot of people don’t get to.”
True Blood‘s seventh and final season begins on Sunday (June 22) on HBO.
