“We had to work on their timeline,” says executive producer Gregg Fienberg. A lighter summer coat would make the 120-pound gray wolves, cast in werewolf roles, look smaller and less menacing. “We can’t suddenly have wolves that look different.”

''Television producers are used to working with high-maintenance stars. But the popularity of the vampire genre, which all of a sudden has embraced werewolves, has some productions learning to deal with wolf actors. Big-budget movies can afford to craft expensive computer-generated werewolves, but TV, with its smaller budgets, must often rely on the real thing.

Every few seconds of screen time for the growling giant werewolves in the coming movie “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” took a team of as many as six visual-effects experts up to six weeks to create. The cost of live wolves varies, but they typically rent for under $500 a day, plus the cost of trainers. Since the animals prefer to travel in packs, six or seven additional wolves may accompany a wolf actor, but producers don’t have to pay for the rest of the entourage.

“Deadwood,” a Western series on HBO, used live wolves. Animal Planet recently aired “Living with the Wolfman,” a reality series about an English couple that lives with a pack of wolves.

Thunder, a golden timber wolf with deep amber eyes, landed a role as a werewolf on the third season of “True Blood,” along with seven other wolves. HBO’s series, which returns June 13, follows vampires, werewolves and humans who coexist in the fictional town of Bon Temps, La.''

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