Posted by Vee | August 8, 2009, 19:35 (EST) | 3 Comments
Category: TV Series

Though he missed the Vampire Diaries panel at the TCA press tour earlier this week, Ian Somerhalder made an appearance at a Warner Bros. cocktail reception in southern California last night. We’ve been a bit starved for insight into what his version of Damon Salvatore will bring to the creepy town party and this interview does not disappoint. He talked. In fact, he drops so much good info that we don’t even know where to begin. It’s like Christmas.

Ian talks about Damon as a character and his relationships with Stefan and Elena, vampire mythology, the show’s stunt work, how the story is coming in hard and fast – and did you know that he auditioned for the role of Jason Stackhouse in True Blood?

Q: Did you do a backstory for your character? Did they tell you a lot about him?

Ian: Oh, yeah. And, it’s intense. Even people who are bad, it all stems from a place. It’s coming from a place. When we’re good to people, it’s coming from a good place. When we’re bad to people, it’s coming from a bad place. But, we all have a reason for what we’re doing, and Damon’s is pretty justified. He feels as though he was hurt very badly in the past, and wronged very deeply, so he’s ticked off and he’s ready for some vengeance. It’s going to be interesting. He has reasons for everything he does, so there will be shifts. The whole idea is that Damon has lost all humanity, but we will see different sides of him, as the season starts to play out.

Just go read the entire interview already.

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