Ryan Kwanten and Chris Bauer of HBO's
supernatural drama True Blood say they're outsiders in a new
It Gets Better PSA.
Kwanten, who plays womanizer Jason
Stackhouse, and Bauer, who plays detective Andy Bellefleur, are the
latest True Blood co-stars to record an It Gets Better PSA.
“Look, Chris and I are both very much
outsiders, as much as it wouldn't seem like we are,” Kwanten, 34,
says in the two-minute-fourteen-second video. “And we're here to
tell you that we don't think we're alone. We now know that we're not
alone. And if you also feel like an outsider, feel like that no one
is listening to you, believe me there are places to go, there is
someone to turn to, there is a comfort, a security network that you
can turn to and sort of say, 'You know what, I have this problem.
This person is picking on me.'”
“And if you're one of the pickers,
one of the bullies, you got to be kidding me,” Kwanten, a native of
Australia, adds. (The video is embedded in the right panel of this
page.)
(Related: Ryan
Kwanten likes his loyal gay following.)
Anna
Paquin, who plays Sookie Stackhouse, Alexander
Skarsgard, who plays vampire Eric Northman, Rutina
Wesley, who plays lesbian cage-fighter Tara Thornton, and Kristen
Bauer, who plays vampire Pam Ravenscroft, have also recorded videos
for gay activist Dan Savage's It
Gets Better Project, which urges teens being bullied because they
are or are perceived to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender to
hang in there, because life gets better.
More recently, Nelsan
Ellis, who plays flamboyant gay prostitute and vampire blood
dealer Lafayette Reynolds, Sam
Trammell, who plays Sam Merlotte, Deborah Ann Woll, who plays
newly-turned vampire Jessica Hamby, Janina
Gavankar, who plays Luna, and Joe
Manganiello, who plays werewolf Alcide Herveaux, also joined the
campaign.