"The Vampire Diaries" Casting Director Greg Orson from TVI Actors Studio on Vimeo.
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"The Vampire Diaries" Casting Director Greg Orson from TVI Actors Studio on Vimeo.
When you were casting Elena, why didn't you want her to be like the books?
"When Kevin and I decided to do the show we thought, you can't dramatize this girl the way she is in the books. Elena is the heart and soul, center heroine of the show. She’s torn between the soulful one and the devil one and you can lose your audience with a girl like in the books. Nina has these big beautiful brown eyes and just let emotions pour out of her."
"Stefan and Elena didn't have anyone to talk too. Elena was spiritually alone and so the journal was a way of expression, but the minute they fell in love is why they don't need to write anything down just because they're in love."
"Alaric has every reason to hate Damon." We love writing scenes for them. They really like them as a couple. We’ll see a lot more of them.
The fog we might not see again and it's hard for a crow to gawk on cue.
"Damon is the greatest villain, he's a hero in villains clothing." Ian said at the wrap party, "I hated doing that in the end. That’s so hard for me to dig down that deep and be vulnerable and open to express myself. It’s not my comfort zone." Julie continued and said, "he’s a leader and a champion. He loves his persona as the cool guy. It was good because you believed it."
Mike Trevino didn't have much to do in season 1, all of the cast are so afraid, because we told them that if you party too much you can die, the cast would be scared to call and ask questions. Tyler Lockwood is crucial to the storyline mythology. "They would delicately layer it in just to get the audience aware of what his destiny is and who he's going to be. Season 2 is going to be big time. Mrs. Lockwood has to be the interim mayor." Tyler didn't have anyone and Matt isn't going to be aware of anything anytime soon.So him and Jeremy depending on what happens can develop a friendship.
If you were a vampire who would you turn?
"She would turn Kevin for eternity, so he'd be stuck with her."
Why does Stefan lie to Elena all the time?
"Stefan’s dark side and Damon’s good side will always haunt him."
"Anna is no longer apart of Vampire Diaries. The crew made save Anna t-shirts and wore them on set. Malese Jow was actually supposed to be gone after episode 13. They loved the mother daughter and Jeremy relationships. They brought them back and gave them the rest of the season. She existed to give Jeremy his journey, but who knows we might see 1983 with Anna and Katherine in Chicago!"
"All the cast are so talented..maybe it'll be ways to weave in their talent."



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Check out these smoking outtakes of the DaMan photoshoot that Paul did a couple of months ago. More can be found here. Thanks to @VDSource and Vampire Diaries Web.We have a very exciting competition for all the Vampire Diaries fans out there! As many of you know we use a short video to introduce each of our guests when they come out on stage. This time, we are handing over creative responsibility to you guys! Your mission is to create a vid, no longer than 2 and a half minutes in length, that introduces either Nina Dobrev, Paul Welsey, Ian Somerhalder or our fourth guest once they are announced. The top 5 in each category will be played at the event and the winning vids will be used to introduce the guest when they come on stage. The winner in each category will also receive a complimentary autograph from the guest in question!




Per your email request, attached, please find some behind the scenes pictures of Candice Accola's photo shoot for Regard Magazine. This issue will be released in June & will be in an 8 page style spread styled by me. Please make sure to credit me & my site.Anthony Suncin aka Mr. Bradshaw's work is amazing! Check out his website for more info and other works.

Nobody knew who Nina Dobrev was a year ago at this time but with the smash success of the CW’sVampire Diaries, Dobrev has not only proven herself as a strong mortal but as a must-see actress. On one hand, Elena is torn between two brother vampires (Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley, who both made the hunks list!) but Dobrev also has the unique chance to showcase her range as the evil Katherine, who shockingly returned from the dead in the season finale of the freshman series. And, to be clear, none of it would have been as convincing without Dobrev’s talent.

Dobrev is playing Lutz’s wife.
Thanks to TVDNews for the heads up!
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Rachel Scroggins is a fashion photographer living in NYC. She attended the CW Upfronts and captured some awesome HQ photos from the green carpet. Here's a snippet and read more on her site. Check out her Flickr album for more photos.On Thursday, the CW presented their fall 2010 schedule, and introduced their newest TV shows at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. The presentation, called an upfront brought many of the networks newest stars and old favorites out to promote their shows.


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Definitely Candice (Accola)! She's a great shopper and she comes up with really interesting outfits. She's great with vintage stuff, too. She's got such a girly side but still a lot of edge so she's really fun to shop with.
Nina (Dobrev) is always really encouraging but really honest about everything. We were roommates for four months so I had a lot of opportunities to ask her opinions on outfits.



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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.
There are going to be hints of other supernatural elements in the town. It’ll be a slow burn. Right now, the vampires and the witches are the true centerpiece of the show. Werewolves will come down the line. But we won’t just stop there – there will occasionally, not every week but occasionally, be other demonic elements and the like.

I think this is a great way to cap off the Young Hollywood awards. It looks like the Vampire Diaries gang really enjoyed themselves. Also, congrats for winning the Cast to Watch For!!
These are photos from The Digital Photobooth at the Young Hollywood Awards. Nina and Candice look stunning even when they're fooling around. Thanks to Candice Accola Online! More can be found in their gallery.


I've missed out on a lot of goodies today including this great photoshoot of Paul Wesley. Hopefully, we'll know what magazine this is from and then the post will be updated. Thanks to Jason aka Snowballx on twitter for giving me the heads up!


I'm not sure where these awesome pictures of Ian Somerhalder come from. The post will be updated after I have that information. Thanks to Love Bites Hard via Undisclosed Desires for the heads up!