Anna Paquin said Entertainment tonight on Friday that she was overwhelmed by fan support after she was seen using a cane to help her get around at the New York premiere of her new film A Bit Of Light.
“I am moved and extraordinarily moved when people show that they care, are interested and are kind,” he said in response to his appearance Wednesday.
After a two-year health battle with an undisclosed illness, it has been almost a year and a half since her last red carpet appearance in October 2022.
“I’m really grateful for the support,” she continued. “At some point, I’ll probably craft my own platform in my own words.”
Anna Paquin told Entertainment Tonight on Friday that she was overwhelmed by fans’ support after she was seen using a cane.
After a two-year health battle with an undisclosed illness, it’s been almost a year and a half since her last red carpet appearance.
During the event at the Crosby Street Hotel, Anna admitted that the last two years had been “difficult” for her, while alluding to recent health problems that had affected her mobility and left her with some speech difficulties, according to PEOPLE.
“It hasn’t been easy,” he said. This appears to have been the first time Paquin publicly revealed that he has been battling health issues.
However, a source was optimistic that Anna would be able to fully recover from her undisclosed condition.
Despite her health problems, which she only briefly alluded to, Anna looked sensational in an angular black sequin dress that matched her 54-year-old husband’s all-black look.
The lovebirds bonded at the premiere of the new movie, which she stars in and Stephen directs.
She plays a recovering alcoholic who reunites with her estranged father (played by Ray Winstone) after he loses custody of his daughters, who go to live with her ex-husband and his current partner.
The film and television star, who became the second-youngest person to win an Academy Award in 1994 after winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Jane Campion’s classic The Piano at age 11, seemed excited to get back in front of the camera and work on a small independent production.
“My first love was independent cinema,” he shared. “That’s how I got into the film industry. I was working with people who were interested in telling stories and telling them with integrity and truth.’
Anna added that she was grateful for her husband Stephen’s help, both on and off set.
“He’s my favorite person to play,” she said, before making it clear that she was drawn to his artistic talent when it came time to sign up for the film.
“I’m not sentimental when it comes to work,” he added with a laugh.
Anna explained that while her main character’s struggles with addiction in A Bit Of Light were foreign to her, her experience as a mother to 11-year-old fraternal twins Charlie and Poppy with Moyer helped her tap into the emotional struggles of a mother. . she separated from her children.
He also shares two stepchildren with Moyer: a son from his first marriage and a daughter from a previous relationship.
“Not everyone ends up having the journey to motherhood that they expected or had planned,” Anna said. “We are all flawed and imperfect, and Ella, on some level, repeats some kind of familiar patterns when it comes to repressing feelings.”
She was able to simulate her character’s pain as it was “very relatable because there are so many ways people can get in their own way or learn to deal with trauma.”
Anna and Stephen bonded over their hit supernatural series, True Blood.
She said she was excited to work with her husband as a director because she began her career in similar independent films.
The actress has not appeared on the red carpet since late 2022 when she promoted her project, A Friend of the Family (seen in October of that year)
Paquin is the second-youngest Academy Award winner in history. She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Jane Campion’s film The Piano in 1994, when she was just 11 years old.
The HBO horror romance, which ran for seven seasons from 2008 to 2014, was adapted from Charlaine Harris’s popular Southern Vampire Mysteries, with Paquin playing Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress in rural Louisiana who enters into a relationship with a vampire. (Moyer). in an alternative present in which supernatural beings walk among us.
Paquin and Moyer met while working on the steamy series, famous for its copious sex scenes, and the on-screen lovers soon struck up an off-camera romance.
Moyer, an English actor from Brentwood, Essex, revealed on Watch What Happens Life that he and his future wife met while doing a screen test before filming True Blood.
“We were both single at the time and there was kind of a spark,” he recalls. It was three months before they saw each other again, but once they were on set to start filming, Stephen noticed that something had changed between him and Anna.
“I didn’t see her for three months, and she had gone from having dark hair to this beautiful blonde, and I had gone from blonde to this dark vampire,” he continued. ‘On the third or fourth day (oh, this is going to sound very saccharine), but I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. It was actually in a matter of seconds and it just became something.”
Moyer said elsewhere that he and Anna were romantically involved when they were filming the pilot episodes of True Blood in 2007, even though he was still married to his first wife, Lorien Haynes.
However, she has claimed that they had already separated when her relationship with her co-star began, and their divorce was finalized in 2008.
The two became engaged in 2009 and married in 2010 at a private home in Malibu in the middle of True Blood’s run, although ironically, their characters’ relationship became increasingly strained in later seasons.
Paquin also came out as bisexual in 2010. She and her husband welcomed fraternal twins, daughter Poppy and son Charlie, in September 2012.
Before True Blood, Anna was known for successfully navigating the often difficult transition from child stardom to having a stable acting career as an adult.
After winning the Oscar, she appeared in other popular films in her teens, including Fly Away Home (1996) and Almost Famous (2000), which earned her a SAG nomination.
As an adult, she has balanced appearances in popular blockbuster films (several X-Men films) with appearances in critically acclaimed films, including Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, and The Squid. And The Whale by Noah Baumbach, among others. others.
Anna looked her best at the premiere in a slim, long-sleeved black dress covered in sparkly sequins.
Anna and Stephen began dating (and married in 2010) while playing human and vampire lovers on the hit HBO series True Blood.
Moyer said on WWHL that they had an instant connection when they met at screen tests, but when they met three months later on set to start filming.
In A Little Light, Anna plays a recovering alcoholic who reunites with her estranged father after she loses custody of her daughters.
It featured bold padded shoulders and a skirt that reached mid-thigh.
She paired the look with black tights and black nail polish, along with short leather boots, and even her all-black cane matched the look.
The Margaret star wore her brunette hair pulled back with a slight bump and neatly pulled back, highlighting her winning smile.
Stephen complemented his monochromatic ensemble with one of his own, which featured a sharp black suit with narrow, pointed lapels and a black shirt without a tie.