Filming for the fifth season of HBO’s True Blood is clearly under way, as evidenced by these set photos taken last night by a fansite!

Stephen Moyer (Bill) and Alexander Skarsgard (Eric) were the two actors on a nightshoot.

See photos below thanks to The Vault (more on their site). They also have a report which you can read in part below.

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It was late now, after 11pm and we had been sitting in our car for a while, which was parked by the stars trailers trying to decide what to do next. We sat debating whether to leave or stay and just then, Christy spotted Alexander Skarsgård coming out of his trailer. OMG, we all ran out of her car and went up to the fence calling to him. He immediately saw us and came right over. Christy had a poster from Straw Dogs that she wanted Alex to signed and he was more than willing to do so. However, there was about a 15 foot high fence between them. She asked him if he wouldn’t mind walking down to the catering trailer where she knew there was a gate where she could slide the poster through. We ran down there and met Alex. Christy slid her poster in the slit between the gate and the fence, but luck would have it, the gate was unlocked so we opened it and were able to talk to him and get photos. Alex was so nice and happily signed the poster in Swedish writing, Kram Christy! (Hugs Christy!). Then, they asked if he would pose for a photo and he gladly did.

We all noticed that Alex, our vampire Sheriff, had a beard. We all thought that was rather strange because we all know that vampires can’t “grow hair”, or can they? Are we to see a bearded Eric in Season 5?