The LA Times has an interview with Ian Somerhalder.
He talks Diaries and the oil spill in Louisiana.
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Here is an excerpt:
When the series returns for Season 2 in the fall, Somerhalder hopes Damon returns to some of his old ways. “I hope he gets back to biting people and having fun and getting high on blood all the time. He’s been so serious lately, forging these relationships, and I think it makes him wildly uncomfortable.”
It’s no secret that Damon’s damage is the result of the beautiful Katherine. “She wrecked him, man,” Somerhalder sighs. He considers the inevitable confrontation between Katherine and Damon. “I don’t know how that’s going to work, but I’m curious. Damon is used to being the strongest guy around. He has no fear. Katherine is stronger than him, she’s smarter. She out-foxed him.”
“Damon knows he got played. There was this naivete that he had as a 23-year-old boy in 1864, and somehow, he allowed that naivete to stow away with him through 150 years of living and traveling and understanding the world. Now, finally, he’s smart enough to understand the irony of that.”
iF Magazine has an interview with Julie Plec.
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Here is an excerpt:
iF: Are you on the books’ timetable as far as introducing other creatures besides vampires, or is the TV series on its own timetable?
PLEC: Well, [there was an] episode that kind of gave a hint about the Tyler Lockwood [Michael Trevino] character. Somebody said, “Why are you such a jerk, why are you the way you are?” and he says, “I don’t know,” and we pan up to the full moon. Anybody who’s read the books knows that his character in the books is a werewolf and one of the choices that we’ve made is, we are going to go down that road, we’re going to explore that, but before we write a word for it, we [will] have met with our visual effects team and our concept design team to make sure that we know exactly what it is we want to do, because we’ve come to learn on CURSED, the werewolf is the worst thing to design and make look good, especially on a TV budget, so we’re going to make sure we do it right. We’re going to think a little bit outside the box, we’re going to figure out how we can design it so that we can make the effects look good, what parts are going to be prosthetic, what parts are going to be makeup effects and what’s going to be CG, and only then when we feel good about it will we start talking about stories.
TV Guide has an interview with Nina Dobrev.
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Here is an excerpt:
Dobrev felt an immediate connection to the character. “She’s not a one-dimensional high-school girl who’s just about boys, popularity and clothes,” she says. “Elena’s strong and courageous and looks out for her loved ones.”
TV Guide has an article on Ian Somerhalder. They talk about his career.
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Here is an excerpt:
Network television, for now, is allowing Somerhalder to remain fully clothed. The actor explains that the only nakedness in his current acting style is emotional, as he taps into his own experiences to create a realistic life for the character. As Damon changes, so does Somerhalder’s method in playing him. “As far as the shift, the only thing that’s really changing is what I’m taking out of my life,” he says. “Sometimes you have a lot of big what-ifs. You don’t have the experience; crazy, supernatural things don’t happen to us.”
Some might argue that Somerhalder’s career has included its own degree of magic, and of that, he’s appreciative. “I never thought I’d be on a vampire television show,” he says. “We’re the luckiest kids in Hollywood right now.”
The Boston Herald has an interview with Ian Somerhalder.
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Here is an excerpt:
“Make no mistake about it, Damon came to Mystic Falls not caring about anything but himself. He is starting to forge these relationships, and he is starting to care about people and things. It’s dangerous for him. It is not where he wants to be,” Somerhalder said.
Damon is part of a complex love triangle involving his fellow vampire and brother Stefan (Paul Wesley) and human Elena (Nina Dobrev).
“There is a cool twist that I think adds a real cool layer that will be interesting to see in season two. There are a couple deaths. There are a lot of twists and turns in this episode. It was a lot of fun to shoot. I just hope it doesn’t suck,” he said, then laughed.
Television Without Pity has a nice little article titled: Vampire Diaries: Why It’s One of TV’s Most Addictive Shows.
Check it all out here to see why they think it’s awesome, Since we already know it is!!!
Here is an excerpt:
Damon Salvatore
Ian Somerhalder has been a revelation on this show. We know that sounds like an overstatement, but it’s just a pleasure watching him relish playing a complex bad boy. His Damon is funny, charming and deliciously sinful all at once. We still adore Eric on True Blood, but he just doesn’t get enough screen time. Damon, on the other hand, is always around wreaking havoc, forming the glue (or plasma) that holds The Vampire Diaries together and makes it bloody good.
The Examiner has an interview with Nina Dobrev.
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Here is an excerpt:
Congratulations on the show’s success!
Nina: Thank you! Thanks so much. I’m really excited that it’s been doing so well. We all kind of hoped and expected, well we didn’t expect, but we hoped that it would be. We were pleasantly surprised and it’s what everyone wants: to be on a show that people look forward to watching, and I think it’s one of those shows.
Going into it, did you think “this is going to be a huge show.,this is going to take off”?
Nina: I mean like I said, we’d really hoped for it, but you never know. I know that Paul Wesley, for example; he told me that he’d done pilot after pilot, he did 6, 7, 8 pilots before he got this one, and this one went to series and became a big show. But before that, you never know. It’s a chance.
