Posted by Vee | January 17, 2010, 22:17 (EST) | 3 Comments
Category: TV Series
As all of you know by now, this past weekend was Nina Dobrev’s 21st birthday party in Las Vegas and there’s been a bunch of red carpet photos and video floating all over. (We’ll update this post with some of it soon.) But it wasn’t all play – she had an interesting tidbit to drop about the upcoming episode of Vampire Diaries, Bloodlines, in this Just Jared video (at the 3:29 mark).
Elena is… She’s just had this insane car accident and we’re going to pick up where we started and see what happens, and who rescues her, and where she goes. And she’s going to go on a little bit of a road trip. Let’s just say she’s going to find out a lot of shocking things. The end of this next episode is going to be extremely shocking and it’s going to take everyone by surprise. People are not going to expect what’s going to happen.
Watch the entire video at Just Jared.
UPDATE: A selection of photos and a video from the Studio 54 red carpet, courtesy of Getty Images and the ever-awesome Nina Dobrev Fan. In attendance: Nina Dobrev, Candice Accola, Katerina Graham, Sara Canning, Zach Roerig, Steven R. McQueen, Kayla Ewell, and we know Michael Trevino, Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Matt Davis, and Julie Plec were there as well. (For those who’ve been asking us where the photos of Ian and Paul are, this may have something to do with it.) You can see more photos in the Gallery.
You can see a ton more photos from inside the party over at Just Jared, and in addition to the above red carpet video, there’s this one courtesy of gershwin9 on YouTube:
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Posted by Red | December 9, 2009, 19:00 (EST) | 3 Comments
Category: TV Series
A few weeks ago the CW asked for questions from fans to ask the cast. We’ve been asked a lot about what happened to those interviews, and we’re pleased to say that they’re now online for everyone to watch. Though we’ve noticed that there’s a distinct lack of a CW Connect interview with Michael Trevino. We think that should be remedied. ASAP. ;)
You can watch the interviews with Katerina Graham, Zach Roerig, Steven R. McQueen and Sara Canning here, and we’ll be posting the interviews with Nina, Paul, Ian and Candice in another article.
FOLLOW THE LINK TO WATCH THE INTERVIEWS WITH ZACH, STEVEN AND SARA
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Posted by Red | November 17, 2009, 17:12 (EST) | 2 Comments
Category: TV Series
Candice Accola recently guested on KTLA news to chat about the Vampire Diaries and be quizzed on vampire trivia.
The CW Connect interviews with Steven R. McQueen and Sara Canning have finally been uploaded to YouTube. Given it’s been so long, we’ll post them here rather than just updating the old post. Steven talks about Jeremy, Vicki, and that he’s sorry he’s not Margaret (though we don’t think he really needs to worry, a lot of fans are really liking Jeremy); Sara talks about Jenna as a person, the challenges she faces, and shooting in Atlanta.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE CW CONNECT INTERVIEWS WITH STEVEN R. MCQUEEN AND SARA CANNING
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Posted by Red | November 16, 2009, 14:50 (EST) | 14 Comments
Category: TV Series
Many thanks to the ever-awesome @CW_VampDiaries for the headsup! KTLA have been broadcasting live today from the set of the Vampire Diaries, interviewing various cast members from the set of Stefan’s bedroom (which, as many know, is a set that both Vee and I really love). For those of you who don’t live in LA, or missed it, KTLA have posted up videos of the interviews with Ian Somerhalder & Paul Wesley, Nina Dobrev, Katerina Graham, and Candice Accola & Zach Roerig. We’ll update this post if and when KTLA upload videos with the rest of the cast.
Update: (thanks, killerchopsticks!) Michael Trevino & Steven R. McQueen:
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEOS OF IAN & PAUL, NINA, KATERINA, CANDICE & ZACH
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Posted by Red | November 12, 2009, 14:45 (EST) | 3 Comments
Category: TV Series
Damon Salvatore has made Entertainment Weekly’s Best Bitches list, which will be featured in the magazine’s latest issue (available from tomorrow). There’s an amusing article on the subject up on their PopWatch blog in which we learn all about Ian Somerhalder’s reaction to fans asking him to bite them, and why he has to politely turn them down.
“One of them is legality. Another may be the fact that they’re extremely young and their 6’4″ father’s standing there with a baseball bat. Or that they’re married. Or that my lovely and wonderful girlfriend is standing next to me going ‘Uh-uh, it ain’t gonna happen.’”
Executive producer Kevin Williamson was recently interviewed by Jim Halterman. The interview covers what attracted Kevin to the Vampire Diaries project, the books, the story, flashbacks, gay characters (there’s apparently a storyline with Caroline’s dad coming up), and, of course, that really ugly cast they have working for them. ;)
JH: The back-story element with Damon, Stefan and Katherine is so rich. Is that something we’re going to see more of this season?
KW: I think we’ll see more of that periodically. We’re doing another flashback episode right now – episode 12 – and we’re actually going to go back in and show a little bit more and open it up a little bit. I think it’s important to do it if it’s going to propel our story forward.
Finally, there are CW Connect interviews with Sara Canning and Steven R. McQueen up on the CW website. Steven talks about Jeremy, Vicki, and that he’s sorry he’s not Margaret (though we don’t think he really needs to worry, a lot of fans are really liking Jeremy); Sara talks about Jenna as a person, the challenges she faces, and shooting in Atlanta. We’ll embed the videos for everyone to see when they’re uploaded to YouTube.
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Posted by Vee | October 29, 2009, 17:00 (EST) | 7 Comments
Category: TV Series
Thanks to Ian Somerhalder for the heads up that those iTunes playlists Nina Dobrev hinted at so long ago are now live on iTunes. We know a lot of you don’t use iTunes, so you can see screencaps of the songlists (and the cast’s reasons for choosing each song) below, but those of you down with iTunes can click the link to purchase those suckers.
Click on the cast member’s image to see their playlist in the Media Gallery.
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Posted by Vee | October 13, 2009, 1:27 (EST) | 5 Comments
Category: TV Series
We’ve been trying to blog this for a few days but the website’s been down. Looks like it’s finally back up: Star Magazine has a brief Q&A with Kayla Ewell that reveals who she’s bonded with on the show, her Twilight connections, and her favorite vampire (yeah, he’s a favorite ’round these parts, too).
Thanks to Johanna for pointing this one out: Actor Javier Carrasquillo, who plays Jared (one of Vicki’s stoner friends from last week’s episode), has posted some behind-the-scenes photos on his MySpace page. They are possibly mega-spoilery (though not all that surprising) for this week’s episode, so don’t say we didn’t warn you. Also: Bare ass warning.
And finally, we’d heard rumblings about this last week, but we now have a press release courtesy of SpikeTV: Looks like Paul, Nina, and Ian will be appearing at Spike’s 2009 SCREAM Awards, premiering October 27th at 10 p.m. ET. (The show actually tapes on the 17th at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.) If you’ve never watched the SCREAM Awards – it’s basically an awards show you might actually give a crap about, honoring the people’s choice of genre media in all its forms. In other words: You don’t wanna miss Vampire Diaries hitting that stage.
UPDATE: Ken Tucker over at Entertainment Weekly grades 19 Fall TV Shows including The Vampire Diaries. He gives it a B- but no worries – you can grade it, too, so have at it.
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Posted by Vee | October 6, 2009, 14:08 (EST) | 8 Comments
Category: TV Series
This Friday’s issue of TV Guide Magazine has a spread of Vampire Diaries behind-the-scenes photos courtesy of Kayla Ewell, who also gives some spoilery insight into what the future holds for Vicki and Jeremy, reveals that the vampires of the show don’t yet have the hang of the whole biting thing, and gives up Michael Trevino and Zach Roerig‘s dirty little Twitter secret (with photographic evidence! – we’re LOL-ing over here). Click on the images below to see bigger, readable scans in the gallery (a little spoilery!) – and big, big thanks to Denise for the scans.
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Nina Dobrev is featured in the new issue of Glamour, along with Sara Paxton (R.I.P. The Beautiful Life) and Jessica Lucas (Melrose Place), and we have a scan courtesy of Nina Dobrev Fan.
The CW Connect has a video interview with Nina where she answers fan questions about the show, including whether Elena suspects Stefan is a vampire, the vibe on the set, how much she knows about what future episodes hold, and how the show is different from Twilight and True Blood. Lots of good stuff – you can view it at CWtv.com or on the official Vampire Diaries Facebook (the second link should work for you, non-U.S.A. peoples).
UPDATE: YouTube embed below.
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Posted by Vee | October 3, 2009, 13:17 (EST) | 3 Comments
Category: TV Series
E! News visited the set of The Vampire Diaries last week during filming of the Halloween episode (Haunted – we’ve already had glimpses of Jeremy’s and Elena’s, and Matt’s costumes via Nina’s Twitter), and the segment features some soundbites from Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, and Ian Somerhalder.
For those of you interested in the ratings breakdown for Family Ties, TV BY the Numbers has it all laid out here and also has the CW’s press release:
VAMPIRE DIARIES continued to cast a spell on viewers in a number of key ratings measurements, with flat week to week performances in adults 18-34 (1.8/6) and women 18-49 (2.3/3). TVD also mesmerized female teens with a 2.5/10, winning a first place finish in the influential demo. Additionally, TVD was seen by 3.52M total viewers.
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Posted by Vee | September 17, 2009, 10:37 (EST) | 6 Comments
Category: TV Series
Ian Somerhalder answers reader questions about Damon’s motivations, what attracted him to the role, how he gets into character, and books vs. TV over at Entertainment Weekly:
Some people would say the show’s success depends on the chemistry between Elena and Stefan. I think a show like this is only as good as its villain. How do you see it?
I just see it as another component in the story. Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort. Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone. But there’s always a catalyst. Something happens. And Damon, I think, is just that catalyst.
The L.A. Times also caught up with Ian:
It’s important that you and Paul Wesley, who plays Stefan, have chemistry. Did you do anything to bond before production?
We just have it, which is great. I remember after a whole day of shooting publicity, I still hadn’t seen the pilot and Paul had it at his place and he said, “Listen, we’re going to grab dinner and we’re going to go and we’re going to sit and we’re going to watch it.” I was sitting there with him and I thought, “There are so many other people I could be stuck doing this together with and, fortunately, we got stuck with each other because it just works.”
NEW Ian in the New York Post:
PW: How soon will we start learning about Damon and Stefan’s history?
Ian: Very, very quickly. They’re not going to make the audience slowly get to know these people, which I think is smart. I’m one of the worst, but we’re all ADD. I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain. We want to get to the meat of the story, so Damon starts doing something things right off the bat that are so wrong … but so much fun. And that’s the key, man.
NEW More chat with Korbi at Zap2It (spoilers!):
Will Elena be the character to bring (the humanity) out of him?
IS: You know, when Damon’s in the presence of Elena, that is when you definitely see a change in him. There is something so profoundly attractive to Damon about this girl, not only just because Nina Dobrev is strikingly beautiful and extraordinarily talented, but because there’s a lot of Nina in Elena and Elena is very sweet and beautiful and [she's] going to be a complex character. Something about her reminds Damon of something that was very, very important in his life, and that’s why you see a bit of difference with him when he’s around her.
NEW Ian (boy, has he been busy!) interview with E!Online:
Are Damon and Stefan close at all, or is it strictly sibling rivalry with those two?
Stefan is not a fan of Damon, and for good reason. Whatever happened in the past, something happened between these two to yield an enormous amount of animosity, equally shared. Damon harbors a lot of anger toward Stefan for something he did in the past. So at any given moment, Stefan finds himself in a place where he’s happy, Damon will show up to ruin it. And that’s intense. Make no mistake about it, Damon loves his brother. He would never let anything happen to his brother. He’s the only one he has. And to be honest with you, Stefan is the only person who truly understands Damon, who understands what he’s been through, understands what he’s coming from.
NEW There’s a video clip available of Ian’s appearance on the Tyra Banks show, which airs tomorrow night on the CW. Check your local listings for times.
NEW CWSource has posted an interview with Ian from Comic Con.
Maxim.com has a very brief Q&A with Kayla and an accompanying photo shoot:
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.
NEW Radar-online talks to the head make-up artist on the Vampire Diaries:
To get into “Vamp Mode”, as Pryor calls it, Somerhalder and Wesley must endure a painstaking makeup process including prosthetics, contact lenses and specially fitted fangs, which are created from a mold taken of the individual actors teeth. Then there’s airbrushing and a special effects team, which put the finishing touches on their scary transformation using visual effects.
EW.com has a fun photo gallery up: ‘Vampire Diaries’: Where You’ve Seen 10 Stars Before, featuring Paul, Ian, Nina, Zach, Kayla, Sara, Katerina, Michael, Candice, and Steven. And Nina is featured in their Fall TV Preview: 14 Exclusive Shots gallery.
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