You can read the entire interview here.
There are also a number of photographs from her photo shoot.
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
But they are needy…needy for blood! Have you ever left bite marks on a boyfriend?
No comment.
That’s a yes!
Honestly, on set when they put the bite marks on my neck, I looked in the mirror and freaked out. It made me squeamish. I’m OK with blood, but walking around and talking on your cell phone with a giant gash in your neck—I’m going to have to get used to that.
Your character, Damon, shows up late in the first episode so we still have a lot to figure out about him. What can you tell us beyond that he’s the “bad” brother?
Well, he comes back for very specific reasons. It’s very interesting to him that there’s this girl that Stefan found. She bears a striking resemblance to someone that we knew very well a very long time ago and it is a source of animosity between us brothers. Damon is definitely a bad guy — he can wreak havoc at times — but he does have his reasons. He’s got a major beef with his brother and possibly with the town.
How do you like playing Damon? He’s very different from characters you’ve played, and it’s interesting to see another side.
Damon doesn’t take himself very seriously and every other character that I’ve ever played does. It’s so liberating and so fun to actually go to work every day and not take myself seriously. Kevin [Williamson, the show’s executive producer] and the team, they just write such great stuff for me to say and I’m really, really happy and lucky that I got to do this.
According to an article over at TV Guide Jasmine Guy has been cast to play Bonnie’s grandmother in the Vampire Diaries.
Here is what Kevin Williamson had to say about the character:
“It’s a timeless role,” explains series executive producer Kevin Williamson. “She looks so young because she’s a witch! She’s a college professor at the local university who teaches the occult. Bonnie starts to think she may be a witch, and it turns out they have a lineage of witches in their family dating back to Salem. Bonnie thinks it’s all crazy until she starts doing things like lighting fires.
Kayla Ewell talked with EW about the alleged flashing incident involving her and some of her cast mates while doing a photo shoot with Tyler Shields. To read all about the incident, which I did not post about earlier, go to the EW to get the details and hear what Kayla had to say.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
But, according to Ewell, the incident was more innocent than it was made out to be. The actress says while on a road trip with her castmates (the show shoots nearby), the group decided to stop to take pictures on a bridge. That’s when they were rushed by Monroe County cops. “They were like, ‘We’re getting calls that people are flashing,’” Ewell says. “And we’re like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. The only thing that’s flashing is our camera.’” The actress says that after showing police their photos, the group was asked to follow officials to the police station, where they were ticketed for loitering on a public walkway.
Were you familiar with the “Vampire Diaries” books before you got involved in the series? KW: No, they sent me the book like a year before we actually did it — I think for a feature film — and I looked at it, but “Twilight” was already in the pipeline, so I was just like, no way. I wasn’t interested. And then it came back around about a year later. I was having lunch with Julie Plec and Jennifer Bresnan, who is a lifelong friend, who worked for me for eight years, and now she’s an executive at The CW. We were all hanging out and she said that she had a project called “The Vampire Diaries” that she was looking for someone to adapt. And I said, oh my God, I know that book. I got to page 12. [Laughs] And that’s when Julie went, I love “Twilight,” I want to do a vampire show! And I was like, I’ll do it if you do it.
And then I read the first book and said, no way, because it was just like “Twilight.” But Julie Plec was already on book three by then, because she reads faster, and she was just like, keep reading it, so I kept reading it, and I went, you’re right, it’s not [like "Twilight"]. I said, if we can get to the other stuff sooner, than yes, let’s do it. And so we sort of rearranged things, so even though the first episode and the set up are the same — the guy comes to school, she meets him, all of that is the same in the pilot — once you get past that… as soon as Damon shows up, it’s totally different.
I had a chance to watch the pilot for The Vampire Diaries and you are terrific in it! Are you having fun working on the show?
Yeah! I am. We all had a blast when we filmed the pilot in Vancouver, and now we’re all out here in Atlanta filming the series. Everything’s great—the series as a whole with the cast and the crew and the writers—it’s all moving like a well-oiled machine right now.
What prompted the show’s move to Atlanta?
Because the show takes place in Virginia, there have to be woods and such, so it was between Vancouver and Atlanta, and it ended up being Atlanta.
Tell us a little bit about your character, Tyler Lockwood.
Tyler is an a**hole, man! He’s a jerk. He’s a bully. He’s cocky. He’s arrogant. He’s the jock, the popular kid, and what he says goes. He breaks all rules, and it’s just kind of the way he’s been brought up.
Below are interviews with the cast of the Vampire Diaries put up by the CW. Interviews are with Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Katerina Graham, Candice Accola and Steven R. McQueen. There is also a featurette.
Below is the featurette including some cast interviews and details on the show. Click the Read the rest of this entry » button below after the video to see the cast interview videos.
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
EW: Did you read the Vampire Diaries books?
NINA DOBREV: I have read the first three books. I’ve been told not to read any further because the creator, Kevin [Williamson], asked us to get the feel for it, read the first couple, but then he wants us to take our own interpretation. My character especially has been changed the most out of anyone because, on a superficial level, I’m not blond and blue-eyed. But other than that, my character, they made her a little more relatable and a little more vulnerable, because they want the audience to feel and relate to her, whereas in the book, she has a little harder edge. She’s a little bit more of a mean girl.
