True Blood: Is Vampire Franklin Mott Really Dead?

Actor James Frain weighs in on the possibility of his bloodsucking alter ego popping up again on the hit HBO series

James Frain is one really dead vampire—or is he?

The British actor played creepy bloodsucker Franklin Mott during this season's True Blood. But Jason Stackhouse (Ryan Kwanten) appeared to have killed him when he shot him with wooden bullets.

Even so, is he gone forever?

"People ask me that all the time, but I don't know," Frain tells me from the Louisiana set of Transit, a thriller with Jim Caviezel about a family terrorized by a group of criminals during a road trip. "If they want me to do it again, I'd love to do it."

It's not like Frain isn't keeping busy enough these days. He also costars as billionaire villain Peter Fleming in NBC's upcoming superhero series The Cape. "I play a guy who you wouldn't know there's anything going on with him at all, but when he adopts this alter ego, he's pretty bad," Frain says.

He also plays a pretty bad guy in the much-anticipated Tron: Legacy. "I didn't even see the original," Frain admits of the 1982 sci-fi flick starring Jeff Bridges. "I remember knowing about it because it's when video games were just starting out. I didn't see it till years later. I told a friend of mine I hadn't seen it and he forced me to watch it."