HBO is injecting even more new blood into “True Blood.”
“90210” star Michael Steger will join the cast for a guest appearance in the upcoming third season of the hit supernatural show, HBO has confirmed to AccessHollywood.com.
Steger, who plays Navid Shirazi on “90210,” will play a gay prostitute named Tony, who gets picked up by Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare) – the vampire King of Mississippi.
The guest appearance may turn into a recurring role for Steger during “True Blood’s” fourth season, although no announcements have yet been made.
However, according to Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello, who first reported the casting news, there are no plans for Steger to leave “90210.”
In other “True Blood” casting news, British actress Lara Pulver has been tapped to play Claudine — the fairy godmother to Anna Paquin’s Bon Temps heroine Sookie, HBO also confirmed.
Pulver is best known for her role as Isbaella in the BBC’s “Robin Hood” series.
According to Charlaine Harris’ “Southern Vampire” books, Claudine lives among the humans of Bon Temps as Claudine Crane before she reveals herself to Sookie as her fairy godmother.
Fans may have actually gotten a very quick glimpse of the character in the first episode of Season One, when Sookie is caught in a vicious brawl outside of Merlotte’s with a group of drug-dealing vampire hunters, the Rattrays. In a rumored deleted scene, Claudine briefly appears and causes the chain Sookie throws at her assailant to wrap around his neck.
However, Bill (Stephen Moyer) catches a sniff of Claudine and she flees.
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