Kevin Williamson Interview With HollywoodLife
HollywoodLife caught up with Kevin Williamson at the Young Hollywood Awards. He talks about Vampire Elena and next season.
Kevin Williamson Interview
IGN has an interview with Kevin Williamson.
He talks Vampire Diaries, Secret Circle (I’m still upset that show was cancelled) and his upcoming show The Following.
Check it all out here.
Below is an excerpt:
IGN: So, Vampire Elena… How long before you decided to pull the trigger on that, because it’s such a huge shift?
Williamson: In the books, I think it was in Book 2 when it happened. I remember working on the pilot, and Julie and I were going, “Well, if we break this down…” With Elena, we were talking about [Twilight’s] Bella and when Bella became a vampire, and, “What book was it?” We started thinking it through. We were just like, “That’s such a fourth season thing.” And once we came up with the Original family, we knew that the next stage would be Elena turning into a vampire.
Kevin Williamson Interview
Collider has an interview with Kevin Williamson.
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Here is an excerpt:
Question: Why did you finally decide that it was the right time to have Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) share a real kiss?
Kevin Williamson: Well, we would have pulled it off sooner, if we could have. We felt like it was time. We just had to wait for the audience to truly respond to the kiss. We have our Elena fans, who have been craving it, but those fans would also reject it, out of hand. There are people who want Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Elena forever, and they were going to reject the kiss, so it had to be an honest thing for Elena to do. We had to make it real for her, and we had to tiptoe towards it. If we hadn’t, you would have hated Elena. Stefan had to take that turn, so she turned her attention to the one person who’s showing her the love, and she’s tempted by him. Who wouldn’t be? He’s a vampire. He has a power over her, and he’s being really good to her. And, he’s being tormented by it, too. In a weird way, he’s never going to let anything bad happen to his brother.
It’s a great love story because everybody loves everybody. No matter how much they hate each other, everybody loves everybody. It’s a perfect three-way, if they would all just come together. If they could all get along, it would be a hot time. Look, we’re in our third season. I don’t think we have a lot of new audience members, at this point. It is our fans. They’re the ones that are keeping us on the air. They’re our bread and butter. Even beyond that, we just want to be honest to the characters. You can’t just have Elena jump into bed with someone because that’s what the writer wants them to do. You have to earn it, and the character has to do it. It took us this long to earn it. From the second episode of this show, when she walked into the Salvatore mansion and she met Damon for the first time and he kissed her hand, that’s when it began. It just took us two and a half years to say, “I think they can kiss. We’ve earned it.”
Nina Dobrev, Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec talk Comic Con
The Hollywood Reporter talked with Nina Dobrev, Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec about comic con.
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Kevin Williamson Interview
The Hollywood Reporter has an interview with Kevin Williamson.
Check it all out here.
Here is an excerpt:
THR: What were conversations like casting a pivotal character like Klaus?
Williamson: I wanted someone who felt European, who felt old world. Clearly, I went to the accents. [Laughs] Joseph Morgan came in and he nailed it. He had the sense of humor that I wanted Klaus to have. The way we always described [the character] is, “Klaus can out-Damon Damon.” We teased this season between Damon and Klaus, but there’s so much material, it’s an open minefield next year between Damon, Stefan and Klaus. The originals, here they come.
Kevin Williamson Interview
Wet Paint has an interview with Kevin Williamson.
Check it all out here and another one here.
SPOILERS
Here is an excerpt:
What’s in the future for Caroline and Tyler’s relationship? Will werewolf/vampire tensions drive them apart?
Yes, 100 percent. In the very next episode, things begin to unfold that don’t bode well for their budding relationship. Tyler starts asking questions and we’ll see that blow open. And don’t forget, there’s Matt waiting over there in the middle. So there’s a little triangle going between a human, a vampire, and a werewolf. Tyler got through his transformation, she was there for him. They sort of have this kinship now, of this curse. And now we take it to the next level and play it out. It’s very tragic.
Thanks Eliza!
Kevin Williamson Interview
PopWrap has an interview with Kevin Williamson.
Check it all out here.
Here is an excerpt:
PopWrap:
First of all, I have to commend you on Tyler’s transformation. I genuinely felt his pain.
Kevin Williamson:
We had always come at this knowing it would be a very, very painful process. That’s why we added the tape last week – so he learned how much agony he was in store for. I mean, it’s a brutal, excruciating five hours.
