Interview With The Vampire

25 December 2009

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Twilight, True Blood and Moonlight have have a good feed on the vampire craze. With The Vampire Diaries coming to prey on viewers wanting more fang action next year FemaleFirst speaks to some

Based on the hugely popular books, The Vampire Diaries has been a smash hit in the US. Based around a high school girl, falling in love with a vampire and his battle with not only himself, but his evil brother.

Sounds a little familiar doesn’t it?

As the show’s jetting it’s way over the Atlantic to us next year, FemaleFirst talked to Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley, who star as Elena and Stefan, the shows lovers, it’s Edward and Bella if you will, about the show and them as actors.

FemaleFirst: Congratulations on the show being brought over here, why do you think it’s been such a hit in America?

Paul: We I think if people just tuned in because of the whole vampire trend, and people stuck with it and it grew with word of mouth because the writers and everyone else just kind of magically fitted together, it was great.

Nina: Everyone is really great at what they do individually so together we really put our all into making this great show and we’re all very proud of it I think.

P: most importantly it’s gotten better and better and people are recognising that, and it’s my opinion that the show has got progressively better.

N: And we can’t wait for all of you guys to see it!

FF: Why do think vampires are so popular right now?

P: We get asked that all time and I always say it’s because of the beautiful, amazing dichotomy in the vampire paradox.

That protective, nurturing, endless love that they have and the passion for, like with my character for Elena, but is also infused with this desire to suck on her neck and feed on her and kill her because it’s in my nature so I think people are fascinated by that.

N: Vampires are timeless, just like the genre they’ve been always been around. Right now this craze is booming but before Twilight and Tue Blood there was Interview with A Vampire and Dracula and all these other movies. So they’ve always been around and they have this mysterious appeal.

P: They’ve become modernised in a very attractive, sexual way and I think people also respond to that.

FF: The show is of course based off the books by L. J. Smith, so have either of you read them?

P: Yeah, we’ve read them even though the books are a foundation for the show and the show’s taken creative licence to deviate for appropriate reasons and for good reasons in order to serialise it.

So we can’t marry ourselves too much to the books, but for me, I pay respect to the character that was originally conceived and try to show that on the screen but I let the writers take me the way they want to go.

N: I agree and although I think my character changes the most from the books to the series, for a few reasons. Purely aesthetically, I’m not blonde haired, blue eyed like Elena is described in the novel.

P: She’s a lot more likeable in the series.

N: I think so. In the books she’s sort of queen bee, high school popular girl that gets what she wants when she wants it and our Elena’s more like a real, relatable, down to Earth girl who’s dealing with a lot of things and a lot of issues.

Her boyfriend's a vampire and could possibly kill her at any possible moment, her brother’s a drug addict, she’s living with her aunt who’s not much older than she is and her parents passed away, so she’s a lot different.

FF: A lot of American shows take breaks in filming, so do you have time to fit in movies or other projects?

N: I think I speak for both of us when I say that we’re both reading a lot of scripts right now for films, but it’s all about finding the right project that we’re passionate about to do in our break.

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