Kristen Bauer van Straten en Sweeten Your Words

Pues al igual que Stephen, también Kristen aparece en el número de septiembre de Sweeten Your Words

I RELATE TO MY CHARACTER, PAM…… BELIEVE IT OR NOT

Frighteningly, more and more I relate to Pam (laughs). I start going, ‘Wow, she’s actually making sense to me.’ It’s fascinating. I feel like, ‘Oh my God, this makes total sense if I were a vampire,’ so if I were taken out of having to worry about aging, money (they always seem to have money), and also they are out of the constraints of society so they can be any sexuality, which is very fun. Plus, you don’t have to worry about death, so without all those issues, who would we be? So much of my life, well, pretty much my entire life, those are the things I think about. That’s 95 percent of where my attention goes with those topics. So then who would I be? It’s an interesting question

AGING AND MY CAREER

I’m staring at 40, so you should ask me once I get into my 40s, because on one hand I say to myself, ‘I’m totally fine with aging, I’m a spiritual person blah, blah, blah.’ But then, when it really gets down to it, for women, the bottom line is that I want to keep working. This is what I love to do, and because I have always thought of myself as a character actor but I’m sort of in this blonde package, we’ll just have to see what happens. One good thing about my face decomposing on the show is that I don’t care how I’m lit, or what I look like at all. It takes all the vanity away and that’s kind of awesome.

IT’S IMPORTANT TO STAY FIT

I started a health regime probably ten years ago because both my parents got cancer. So I started reading, and just because I don’t want to ever get cancer, I began to look after myself. But with True Blood, I have more incentive to work out. During the writer’s strike years ago, I was ten pounds heavier, and I didn’t notice, but on True Blood, you have wardrobe fittings all the time so you’re very conscious of your body. So I work out and I’m also a vegetarian. I try to eat really organic, healthy, lots of vegetables.

I BELIEVE WE ARE ALL IMMORTAL

I’ve wondered about it and I believe that we are immortal. Not physically immortal, and that’s probably set up correctly. You are probably supposed to go through the cycle of young and dumb (laughs) and then as your body ages, you focus more on the internal. Then your body falls away and you learn what you’ve learned and you’ve moved on. So if your body never dies, it’s probably not the best idea for spiritual evolvement, but it’s not like humans are doing the greatest job evolving anyway. So, I think that I would probably trust nature hopefully and keep things the way they are. But often, when I say those Pam lines, I think, ‘Well, we all think it. Pam just says it.’

HOW I MET MY HUSBAND

He’s a musician (Abi Van Straten). We got together two years now. I was a bit of a stalker. I heard his CD, and went and got it on I-Tunes and there was a little video online that I watched too many times, (laughs). Then I sent him an e-mail, which I wrote for three weeks. I was trying to figure out how to sort of name drop True Blood (laughs) casually. I was thinking the difference between me and a stalker is that I’m on a tv series, so that’s ok, right? So, I was trying to figure out how I can use it to my benefit, after all those years of rejection, I thought, ‘I’m going to use this thing.’ It ended up that he hadn’t heard of True Blood. (laughs) He’s from South Africa, and they didn’t have it yet. But he’s seen it now.

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