London, Mar 8 - British actor Stephen Moyer has revealed that he has been banned from going out in the sun just like the vampire character he is playing.

Moyer, 40, who had moved to Los Angeles to play blood-sucking Bill Compton in the hit series 'True Blood', said TV bosses demanded he stay pale for the role.I couldn't wait to live by the beach and enjoy the weather, then they dye my hair and make me stay out of the sun. I was banned from sunbathing!" the Sun quoted him as saying.

True Blood, which has been dubbed "Twilight for adults", is the racy drama that has gripped the US and now British audiences on Channel 4 and the FX channel.

It features raunchy sex scenes, blood-drinking, drug-taking and lesbian vampires, and is set in the fictional town of Bon Temps where vampires live among humans after a Japanese firm makes a ubstitute blood named True Blood. (ANI)