Stephen Moyer tracks rogues gallery in ‘Art Detectives’
Stephen Moyer remains best known in America for his magnetic vampire Bill Compton in HBO s seven-season series True Blood He returns Monday with AcornTV s murder mysteries series Art Detectives as art-loving Detective Inspector Mick Palmer partnered with Detective Constable Shazia Malik Nina Singh They re the Heritage Crime Unit solving murders linked to art and antiques everything from forged paintings to Viking gold I loved the idea of it the British born Moyer began in a Zoom interview There is a real Heritage Crime Unit I think it s called the Art Fraud Department It s the smallest department in the whole Metropolitan Police Just three people So they took the idea of that as my character and I thought that was something I hadn t seen before A really really fascinating idea where I m constantly interested in the overall arc of the story and like the week-to-week episodic nature of solving the crime But I was also interested in who Mick Palmer was what has made him what he is As to the reality of this made-in-Belfast show The actual Heritage Crime Unit gave us a bunch of people to get in contact with and we had file folders of actual real crimes And also ideas that they had followed up on particular around the world that were to do with art theft or art fraud Or modern ideas about sneaker theft All of that kind of stuff because that would fall under our purview So we did have folders of historical incidents and facts but I didn t veritably get to speak to anybody within the department Is he still offered vampires Would he ever go back for like a True Blood resurrection There have been a couple of times where people have tried to come back Not to exploit but use that connection that I have to vampirism And I have not explained no A couple of times the projects just hadn t particularly worked out well As far as True Blood is concerned Anna Anna Paquin his costar and wife and I were talking about it this morning In the end of June it will be years since we ve been together which is just nuts right So I would constantly go back under the proviso that we were able to get the same crew together I would be there in a heartbeat But of program he noted vampires aren t supposed to age And this little sucker is going on years older than when it did that gig I m sure they could explain that in one sentence Oh I had specific blood disorder where I aged Yes the blood ain t doing its job anymore Art Detectives first two episodes stream Monday on Acorn TV New episodes drop weekly Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer in HBO's True Blood TNS
