Interview with the vampires

 The bad news: There were two vampires in front of us.
The good news: They were not trying to kill us.
One of them was thirsty, but not for our blood. “Can I get some water? Does anyone have water?” Nina Dobrev asked.
Ian Somerhalder stood up to get her a bottle.
The actors, stars of the hit TV series “The Vampire Diaries,” were at EZ Studios in Manhattan’s Fashion District. It was day two of their three-day photo shoot for Penshoppe with photographer Darren Tieste.
Ian, who plays vampire Damon Salvatore, isn’t new to the Penshoppe family. The clothing brand first signed him as an endorser in 2012. Last year, he flew to Palawan for a photo shoot and spent time in Manila, charming hordes of fans and members of the press.

NINA Dobrev in blazer, studded tank top and high-waist floral shorts
The relationship between Ian and Penshoppe was fruitful, one that went beyond photo shoots and billboards. Realizing that he was deeply passionate about the environment, Bernie and Alice Liu—CEO and VP for retail brands, respectively, of Golden ABC Inc., Penshoppe’s mother company—decided to support the Ian Somerhalder Foundation. “Penshoppe donates money directly to the Ian Somerhalder Foundation and that is huge,” Ian said.

Warm reception
This year, Ian remains on Penshoppe’s roster of global superstars after the brand renewed his contract. Jeff Bascon, Penshoppe’s brand director, said: “It was definitely bound to happen after the very warm reception that Filipinos gave Ian when he visited the Philippines. But it’s more than that. How Ian is and what he stands for perfectly represents Penshoppe. He is stylish and global, a visionary.”

Ian Somerhalder in quilted varsity jacket, basic tee and slim-fit jeans
Nina, who plays both Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce in “The Vampire Diaries,” and who audiences have previously seen in the films “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “The Roommate” and “Chloe,” is the newest addition to Penshoppe’s lineup of endorsers, which includes Ian, One Direction, Hollywood actress Leighton Meester, Thai celebrities Mario Maurer and Baifern Pimchanok and, most recently, “Revenge” star Joshua Bowman.

“Nina is everyone’s favorite,” Jeff said. “Her dual role in ‘The Vampire Diaries’ has catapulted her to stardom. She has a very strong sense of style. It’s either she’s your dream girl, or you want to be her friend and be like her. Nina is definitely your ultimate Penshoppe girl. And what made her even more endearing was how warm and friendly she was during the shoot.”
Nina seemed thrilled about joining the brand, rocking a pretty, sheer black blouse and red jeans from Penshoppe even after the shoot. “I really love this shirt. I’m taking the clothes home, actually. They gifted them to me,” she said.
Great energy

Corduroy varsity jacket and colored skinny jeans
Jeff said, “There was great energy during the shoot. Both Ian and Nina were amazing. The chemistry between the two was on point. It was an awesome experience and I just can’t wait for everyone to see our campaign. This is going to be another first in the Philippines, having onscreen Hollywood partners in one campaign.”

Fans of Penshoppe and of Nina and Ian will get to see them on the brand’s billboards starting today.
Penshoppe still has a lot in store this year. Jeff said, “We recently opened stores in Shangri-La Plaza mall and SM Aura Premiere. Expect more stores to open in the next few months in the Philippines, Indonesia and the Middle East.”
Super sat down with the real-life couple at the shoot earlier this month, just days before rumors of their supposed split started to spread. If there was trouble then, it didn’t show. Nina and Ian were sweet and tender with each other, clasping hands as we talked about Penshoppe, the Philippines, and why they think Elena Gilbert should just run.
Nina, why did you say yes to Penshoppe?

Dobrev with Golden ABC Inc. CEO Bernie Liu, Golden ABC Inc. vice president for retail brands Alice Liu, Amanda Liu
Nina: Why not? At first, I saw all the clothes, they sent me the clothes. Ian had done it the year before and he had a positive experience… It’s great clothes, a great company and there’s nothing negative about it.
Did Ian tell you about his visit to the Philippines?
Nina: He did. He showed me a video of his visit, how many thousands of people everywhere, everyone so enthusiastic and excited about the show. The Philippines is beautiful. They stayed at this amazing resort with blue water, it made me very jealous. I wished I was in the Philippines visiting as well.
Will we get to see you in the Philippines soon?
Nina: Hopefully, if I’m lucky enough. I really wanna go visit because it looks beautiful. I’ve seen all the pictures.

Dobrev with Penshoppe brand director Jeff Bascon
Which are your favorite pieces from the shoot?
Nina (looks at the shirt she’s wearing): This is definitely one of my favorite pieces. And there are these black leggings with leather on them that are really cool. There’s a lot of cool stuff.
Ian, which clothes from the shoot did you like the most?
Ian: I don’t wear a lot of color. Nina always yells at me about it.
Nina: I tell him he should wear more color.
Ian: It makes me uneasy, stepping out of my comfort zone and wearing bright and crazy colors. But whenever I put them on, people give me looks and compliments. There are a number of pieces that are [so] great that I’ve allowed myself to come out of my shell a little bit and wear lots of colors and not really care.
What do you remember the most about your visit to the Philippines?
Ian: Well, here’s the thing. This family is so incredible. Bernie and Alice, they treat me like a son. And the team that they’ve assembled is incredible. So the Philippines was really a magical, eye-opening experience for me. Being in El Nido, Palawan—it’s one of the most beautiful places in the face of the planet.
Nina: So cool.
Ian: In the Philippines and Indonesia, they work very, very diligently to promote smart business practices, and they promote goodwill.
Nina: Which is really good because when you make a lot of money, you should help the world. It’s a great brand, it’s very successful and it gives back.
How’s your foundation doing?

Ian: Wonderful… growing like crazy, branching out in a number of different projects globally. One of them is building an animal sanctuary in Louisiana and it’s also a youth education camp.
Nina: It just keeps going up and up.
Ian: Yeah, it’s just building phenomenally. And I’m very grateful to Penshoppe for helping.
Is there anything you wanted to do in the Philippines that you didn’t get the chance to do the last time?
Ian: Yeah. Spend some more time. I really look forward to going to Palawan and I do want to go to Cebu. But I really want to spend some time in El Nido. Palawan is just… I really want to explore the waters and meet more of the people.
Why do you think people love “The Vampire Diaries” so much?
Nina: Because Ian’s on the show and he’s pretty. (Laughs)
Ian: Because Nina’s on the show, because Nina’s beautiful. (Laughs) I think it speaks to an audience. This whole vampire thing has been so huge. There’s something very interesting about these characters. It’s really about the relationships. I think they’re well-devised.
Nina: It’s good writing, it’s good acting and it’s good visually, it’s beautiful. It’s a good show overall and we’re very proud of it. We’re happy that people love it as much as we do.
How do you feel about “The Originals” spin-off?
Nina: I haven’t seen it yet.
Ian: I haven’t seen it yet. We love it because it got us a week off. (Laughs)
Nina: But we heard it did well and it got picked up so we’re happy for them. But we’re sad to see those characters leave our show. Luckily, they’re shooting in Atlanta as well, so all of our friends will still be in the same city.
You just wrapped season four. How are you celebrating?
Ian: I haven’t celebrated yet. (Turns to Nina) You went to Miami for a while, you had a little beach time.
Nina: Yeah, I got to hang out with my girl friends and go to the beach.
What can fans expect from season five?
Ian: We have no idea. We really don’t know. They don’t tell us coz they know we’re gonna talk to you.
If it were up to you, who would Elena end up with—Damon or Stefan?
Nina: Neither.
Ian: She should just run.
Nina: She should go. She should go to Europe and meet a French boy. Or go to the Philippines.
Go to Palawan?
Ian: Go to Palawan.
Nina: Live on the beach. (Laughs)
You both get a chance to play complex characters on the show. Which is more fun for you—playing good or playing evil?
Nina: It’s fun that I get to do both. Because when I get bored with one, I can do the other.
How has fame changed your life?
Ian: Are we famous?
Nina: What? You know, it has and it hasn’t. In many ways, I still act like the same person.
Ian: Yeah, me as well.
Nina: Don’t listen to him, he’s lying. He’s completely changed. (Laughs) Just less privacy.
I was going to ask about that. You constantly have people following you around. Do you ever get used to that? And how do you deal with it?
Ian: What’s great about it is that people are very enthusiastic about our show. It’s an amazing experience… that people are giving you good energy. They’re just excited. They’ve connected to you… whatever character you’re playing, and that’s always a positive thing. It’s just interesting.
You guys are super-active on social media—you’re on Twitter, Instagram… Is that something you consciously do to connect to your fans?
Nina: Yeah, absolutely. It’s a new platform, a new way of life that didn’t exist seven years ago. It’s completely changed the world, our lives, our access, and our ability to speak to people and do good, so it’s been amazing.
You work really long hours. What do you do for fun?
Nina: Sleep.
Ian: Sleep.
Nina: Watch movies.
Ian: Watch movies, sleep.
Nina: Go to dinner.
What else are you passionate about?
Nina: Yoga.
Ian: Oh yeah, I wish I can do yoga right now.
Nina: Sleep. I’m passionate about sleep. Ian knows.
Ian: Yeah.
Do you get enough sleep?
Nina: That’s the problem. Because I don’t get enough, I’m very, very worried about that. Sometimes, instead of going to dinner, I’ll be like, sleep time, now.
Do you have dream roles?
Ian: Honestly, at this point, the dream role is being in a phenomenal film with phenomenal filmmakers. It’s all about the filmmakers.
Nina: I agree.
Ian: Just being able to say great words with great actors and great filmmakers is what it’s about. It doesn’t happen often, so that dream role would be encompassed in that scenario for me.
Nina: Same here.
What’s the craziest thing a fan has done to get your attention?
Ian: We were at Comic Con the first year and there was this six-foot woman dressed as Wonder Woman who pinned me up against the wall, by my neck, and was just so enthusiastic about telling me how much she loved the show… She eventually quit when she realized my security guys were going to throw her out. There was a moment there when I thought (pretends to choke), “This is it.”
Nina: I had a girl in hot yoga right after the class. You lay in Shavasana and I slowly tiptoed out of the class and she grabbed the mat, running across the room, and came up and grabbed me, “Are you Elena?” And I said, “Yes.” “Can I get a picture?” “No.” I’m sweaty, I was literally dripping. It was hot yoga. I was like, “I don’t want anyone to see this picture so I can’t take it… Find me another day when I’m not sweating and in my yoga clothes and I will absolutely take a picture.”

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‘Vampire Diaries’: EP Julie Plec talks the genesis of Klaus’ baby news, teases Silas twist

As The Vampire Diaries approaches the end of its fourth season, things are changing. Graduation in the May 16 season finale isn’t even the start of it. In the episode last month that set the course for Klaus (Joseph Morgan) to return to New Orleans in the fall for the Originals spinoff, we learned that Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) is pregnant with his child. The idea for Klaus to procreate with a werewolf was something that came up in the writers’ room at the beginning of the season, exec producer Julie Plec says.

“We had always talked about, at some point in the series, dealing with a vampire pregnancy, but we couldn’t really ever figure out the science behind that and also didn’t want to break any rules. And when we started talking about giving Klaus a really powerful journey for season 4 — regardless of whether there’d be a spin-off or not — we thought, well, where’s his character coming from and where does it need to go? What could we do to really, really blow his mind? And we realized, this is a guy who everything he’s ever done — all his ego, all his paranoia, all his anger — is a result of feeling like this family has completely failed him. So what better way to rock his world than to introduce a new element of family?” Plec says. “We came up with the idea that because of him being the Original Hybrid there could be a loophole, and him realizing he got a werewolf girl pregnant. [The writers] were in two rooms: One room was working on episode 2, and one room was working on episode 3. And in the episode 2 room, where I was, I don’t know how it came up, but I leapt out of my chair and ran down the hall and pitched it to the other room. I didn’t even give them a chance to disagree. Who knows if they loved it or hated it? They were so bombasted by my enthusiasm. Everybody was like, ‘Whoa! Whoa!’

So that was a story line we were intending to play, even if there was no spinoff that came to fruition.”
Klaus won’t be mentioning his impending fatherhood when he returns to Mystic Falls in the season finale to surprise Caroline at graduation. “We don’t bring that back around because really, what Klaus and Caroline’s unfinished business is, of course, is his refusal to allow Tyler back into her life. We’ll resolve that before the season’s out.”

As for what we will see in the last two episodes, Plec says in tonight’s penultimate hour, Elena, who has flipped her humanity switch back on, is “still pretty pissed off,” Plec says, “and in fact, her anger and her hostility that she’s gotten directed so cleanly at Katherine bleeds out a little bit onto the boys. But it’s all in the name of her finding her way back to her true self. And in the finale, as she gets closer and closer to really being the Elena that we love, all of those questions come back up — what’s the truth of how she feels and who does she feel it for?
The thing Elena (Nina Dobrev) is clinging to is her desire to kill Katherine (also Dobrev), which yields an epic battle in the finale. “When we stared breaking Katherine’s journey for the season, we knew we wanted to lead to a vampire confrontation between the two. The idea of having Elena finally being strong enough to at least put up a good fight felt like an opportunity we couldn’t miss,” Plec says. “I think Nina, as the hardest-working girl in show business this season, for sure, was just like, ‘Ohmygod, this is gonna be difficult,’ but was really excited about it. She had to shoot the sequence on a Saturday, just her playing both roles, two stunt girls, a film crew, and a lot of knock-down-drag-out goodness.” Will there be a definitive winner? “Believe it or not, yes. There will be,” Plec says. “And it will not be pretty.”

In tonight’s episode, Katherine spends some quality time with Bonnie. “Bonnie’s not very nice to Katherine in this episode — they spend a bit of the episode snarking and being literally and figuratively stuck with each other,” Plec says. “Bonnie is very intent on trying to find a resolution to this Silas problem: What he wants, what she wants, and how she can ultimately use what he wants against him.” As we’ve already reported, tonight, ghosts will also begin to slip through the veil to the other side that Silas wants to completely bring down — and that will bring familiar faces back to the show for next week as well. “Everything we did this season was knowing that by the end of the season, we’d be seeing some of these ghosts again that had their own agenda, their own point of view about whether the veil to the other side should drop, and their dog in the fight as it relates to Silas and whether Silas should be resurrected.”

And speaking of Silas, we’ll learn more about him tonight. “As we’ll see, he’s not exactly all that he claims to be. And he’s been leaving out some pretty important details,” Plec says, laughing. “So by the end of the season, those are gonna be revealed, and we’ll see that he’s definitely up to somethin’ that will lasting impact. The Silas story takes a little bit of a left turn, and once the audience sees what happens there, they’ll start to understand where we might be going with it [in season 5].”

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'Vampire Diaries': EP Julie Plec previews the season finale

The Vampire Diaries season finale doesn’t air until May 16, but the “Graduation” photos have arrived.

“It’s difficult to throw an event in Mystic Falls without it going catastrophically awry, but one of the things that was really important to us is that we do give this event itself its due,” says executive producer Julie Plec, who cowrote the episode with Caroline Dries. “We approached this episode, in its own way, like a series finale because our character’s graduating from high school is a shift in the show to open up a lot of new storytelling opportunities and new environments. So we really wanted to be able to get all the emotion out of this episode that we could before we move on to a different life. We made sure that in spite of everything that’s going on in the midst of it, we still get those great friendship moments and nostalgia moments that I, as a fan of TV over the decades, loved so much on high school shows as you reached that milestone.”

Will there be a death at graduation? “There will definitely be an altercation resulting in some blood loss, but that’s about all I can say,” Plec teases.

From the episode synopsis, we know that Mystic Falls will be “overrun with ghosts intent on settling old scores and fulfilling their supernatural destinies.” They’ll begin to appear in the May 9 episode, appropriate titled “The Walking Dead.” Says Plec, “Part of Silas’ plan to drop the veil — and Bonnie’s effort to either help him or stop him — they kind of blow up in everybody’s face in ‘The Walking Dead,’ and we get our first glimpses of what would happen if this veil fell completely. We start to have some ghosts coming through from the other side. It’s a nice collection of faces that will make us happy, and then some faces that we thought we probably shouldn’t see again because they’re up to no good.” (So they are technically ghosts? “It’s the same way we’ve done in the past when they break their way through from the other side, they have corporeal form,” Plec explains. “It’s just that if you kill them and the veil’s down, they can just walk right back through. So they’re kind of indestructible.”)

Someone will finally take the cure for vampirism in the finale. Plec won’t say whether the third time is a charm for Rebekah. “I will tell you that we started the season having firmly decided exactly who was gonna get the cure, and about halfway through the season, we changed our minds,” she says.

Plec also won’t spoil what Elena decides are her true feelings for each of the Salvatore Brothers, or whether Stefan will head out of town for the start of season 5 – something Paul Wesley has rooted for. “It all hinges on what, if any truth comes out of Elena and Elena’s situation,” Plec says. “Stefan has been pretty clear about being ready to move on. So the question is will he need to?” (We’re sure the shot of Damon above from the finale doesn’t influence Elena, at all).

We spoke to Plec before the most recent episode’s reveal that Hayley is pregnant with Klaus’ child, so we didn’t get to ask her whether Caroline will know the news by the time Klaus makes his surprise return (or if he’ll tell her). But when she told us, “I cried some really beautiful sad tears, and I cried some great happy tears as well” while writing the episode, we have to think the moment pictured (http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2013/05/01/The-Vampire-Diaries-Finale-03.jpg) brought on the waterworks.

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