Actor Denis O’Hare, who plays Russell Edgington, the vampire king of Mississippi, says he explored his character’s back story extensively, working with series creator Alan Ball to concoct an extremely powerful bloodsucker with deep historic roots.
“I think because Russell is so ancient that he defies a lot of the cultural evolution of vampires,” O’Hare told Wired.com during an interview at Comic-Con International.
It’s a unique spin on the character, which deviates substantially from the character as imagined by author Charlaine Harris, upon whose books the HBO series is based. Find out more about what makes the Celtic pagan vampire so dangerous in the video interview above: O’Hare discusses the 2,800-year-old vampire king’s extensive travels through time.
