
He’s just trying to be the right person for Jess, and she keeps blowing him off. This inner conflict that he always has is externalized with Jessica, when she’s getting upset with him. The trick with James is, though he’s a pacifist, he’s still a vampire, which is not a peaceful thing to be. I think they’re kind of of similar minds. What attracts James and Lafayette to each other?

He talks with THR about the sex scene, filming with Ellis and his Jim Morrison influences. “It helped immensely to know him and to trust him and trust each other that we’re going to do this right,” he says. He tells THR it was a new acting challenge for him, but that working with Ellis this season made it more natural. The actor points out that this intimate a male homosexual relationship has been rare on True Blood and that Lafayette’s scenes with Jesús ( Kevin Alejandro) in previous seasons were less physical. Now we’ll start to see more of Lafayette and l together, and Jessica has another thing she’s going to start dealing with,” he says. Parsons tells The Hollywood Reporter it’s the last viewers will see of the James-Jessica romance.

PHOTOS ‘True Blood’ Season 7 Premiere: Stars Walk the Carpet One Last Time Jessica walks in on them and breaks up with James. When Jessica ( Deborah Ann Woll) gives James the cold shoulder yet again at Bon Temps’ “celebration of life,” he goes to a sympathetic Lafayette and the pair end up having sex.

The pair’s connection was hinted at in previous episodes, with James admitting to “groovin’ on” Lafayette in last Sunday’s hour.
