Wednesday 13 June 2012

True Blood Tanya Wright

True Blood Tanya Wright Biography
Wright, who is as much writer as she is actress, has plenty on her plate already. The multiplatform creative wrote a screenplay, penned and published the novel Butterfly Rising based on that screenplay, then directed and starred in the movie version which recently premiered in Seattle and is currently traveling the festival circuit. The story follows two women who turn to the open road to find a medicine man who will make their dreams come true.  She’ll also be appearing in the upcoming feature Predisposed alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Melissa Leo.

inReads talked with Wright about what it really takes to make one’s dreams come true, auditioning for True Blood, and why artists shouldn’t have to choose between mediums.

met Malcolm-Jamal Warner and he mentioned that they were looking for someone to play his girlfriend on The Cosby Show. He kept pestering me about it, but I still didn’t do anything until I got a call from the casting director to audition for the role of Theo’s girlfriend. I was living in the Bronx at the time, which was about eight trains away from where they shot. I was young and didn’t know how to get there. I remember finally arriving and seeing Mr. [Bill] Cosby with his cigar. They gave me five pages and asked me to read it as I thought it should be read. I did, and I ended up getting the part. I just went with my raw gut feeling, and that’s how I continue to live my creative life to this day.
About four or five years ago, I was called in by people who cast me in several other television projects. They had hired me many times. I was told it was for a new show on HBO by Alan Ball.

I’ve been in Hollywood long enough to have an inkling that this was going to go. It’s HBO, Alan Ball, and a successful franchise of vampire books. That’s going to go.


True Blood Tanya Wright
True Blood Tanya Wright
True Blood Tanya Wright
True Blood Tanya Wright
True Blood Tanya Wright
True Blood Tanya Wright
True Blood Tanya Wright
True Blood Tanya Wright
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