TV Guide Magazine has an interview up done by Ileane Rudolph with Nina talking about Vampire Diaries so check it out!
Talk about teen angst! It’s hard enough to be dating a fangster like The Vampire Diaries’ Elena Gilbert does. But to stand by her undead man after catching him chowing down on another girl, now that marks a woman who doesn’t give up until she gets what she wants.
Minus the blood and biting, Nina Dobrev, who plays Elena, shares that same drive. It’s how she got the role. “Nina was one of the first girls to come in,” recalls executive producer Julie Plec. “She was sick, and we didn’t really look at her twice. So she went home to Toronto, put herself on tape and sent it in. It was so perfect our jaws fell on the floor.” Says Dobrev, “I loved the role so much that I had to keep fighting for it until I won it.”
The 21-year-old Bulgarian-born, Canadian-raised actress is no newcomer at reaching for the gold ring. As a former gymnast, she competed around the world. When she switched to acting at age 16, she landed the first three roles she auditioned for, including teen mom Mia Jones on the popular teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation. After three seasons on the show, she hit the Hollywood pilot circuit and soon won the role of Elena on The Vampire Diaries.
Dobrev felt an immediate connection to the character. “She’s not a one-dimensional high-school girl who’s just about boys, popularity and clothes,” she says. “Elena’s strong and courageous and looks out for her loved ones.”
It’s not much of a stretch for the actress. “Nina is the happiest one on the set,” says Plec. “She’s the one who will throw her arms around you, take a picture, put it in a frame and send it to you as a gift. She’s that sweet, nice girl who encourages people to hang out and have fun. Continue Reading
Thanks to Danielle for the heads up Nina is going to be on September’s Issue of Saturday Night Magazine!
Thanks Vampire-Diaries.net for the posting this awesome New Interview with Ian and Nina talking about Vampire Diaries check it out Below!
I have replaced the Founders Day Stills with HQ Version so head on over and check them out, thanks so much to Haylie at Dianna Agron Web for donating these to the site!
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– The Vampire Diaries > Season 1 > Episode Stills > 1×22 Founders Day
Also take a moment to vote in the Poll below I am curious if anyone thinks Katherine will be making an appearance tomorrow night in the Season Finale , but not in a Flashback that is!
Loading ...Examiner has a nice Interview Up with Nina, read some below and check out the rest over there!
Congratulations on the show’s success!
Nina: Thank you! Thanks so much. I’m really excited that it’s been doing so well. We all kind of hoped and expected, well we didn’t expect, but we hoped that it would be. We were pleasantly surprised and it’s what everyone wants: to be on a show that people look forward to watching, and I think it’s one of those shows.
Going into it, did you think “this is going to be a huge show.,this is going to take off”?
Nina: I mean like I said, we’d really hoped for it, but you never know. I know that Paul Wesley, for example; he told me that he’d done pilot after pilot, he did 6, 7, 8 pilots before he got this one, and this one went to series and became a big show. But before that, you never know. It’s a chance.
Lip Gloss or Lip Balm? Lip Balm. I use a lot of Rosebud salve from Anthropologie. They have one in a tube and it’s great. It makes your lips soft and amazing. Continue Reading
