"When I think about True Blood, I think about that bar, because I felt like I was on a show about a bar and everybody else was on a vampire show," Carrie Preston says of being cast as waitress Arlene on the HBO adaptation of Charlaine Harris' supernatural novels.

"When I was shooting it, I had been working on another projects as my little blonde self, and the character is talked about in the books about being decidedly redheaded, so I wore this red wig," she explains.



"The show became a phenomenon — it changed my life — but nobody knew I was on it because they didn't recognize me. And so I wore the wig for two or three seasons or so, and then I thought, 'Well, this is silly to be on a hit show and not be able to spin it into anything else because nobody really knows that's me.'

So I dyed my hair red — and after that, every role since, pretty much, I've been a redhead."

https://ew.com/tv/carrie-preston-role-call-claws-true-blood-interview/