Bill, meanwhile, who, in an early
scene, is saved by Sookie from «drainers» — rogue humans who
steal vampires» blood for its
notorious sensory - and libido - enhancing properties (and, naturally, its black - market value)-- is eager to settle down in sleepy Bon Temps, and may get the welcome mat if Sookie's kind grandmother (Lois Smith) can get her Civil War society to accept a real (if not technically «alive») veteran of that conflict speaking at one of their functions.
He soon became a character actor of note - with
scene -
stealing performances in The Butcher Boy and Trojan Eddie - before lead roles in quirky, darkly humourous Irish road movie I Went Down and a biopic of the
notorious criminal Martin Cahill, The General, showed he had the goods to carry a movie on his own.