The Vampire Diary

        

Ian Somerhalder‘s activism in efforts to help his home state of Louisiana recover from the Gulf oil disaster have been well-documented in this space. But the “Vampire Diaries” star says he’s still “beyond angry and beyond sad” at the state of the Gulf.

“I grew up on those estuaries,” he tells Zap2it. “I literally grew up on a marsh, freshwater bayous that run into a saltwater lake. The connection is like no other. The nutrients, the fruit of the waters, literally fed me and grew me into the guy I am. That’s a connection similar to what you have with your parents. It goes very, very deep.”

Nearly three months after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, causing the massive spill, Somerhalder questions the government’s response.

“The Gulf of Mexico could have been saved,” he says, making it clear he’s speaking only for himself. “It was destroyed by lack of leadership.

“In five or 10 years we will understand what truly happened — why President Obama didn’t federalize it, and why he has been a talking head for BP — when the smoke clears and the oil literally settles,” he says.

“It is a sad and strange coincidence of how much money BP gave to President Obama. There is no change or hope. This should have been federalized as a national disaster, and we will find out eventually what happened and why it happened this way. It doesn’t matter — the Gulf of Mexico is gone.”

“Supernatural’s” Jared Padalecki and “The Vampire Diaries” star Ian Somerhalder are going head to head… and not because Padalecki plays a monster-hunter and Somerhalder plays a vampire.

The CW stars are both backing charities that are in the running for Chase Bank’s Chase Community Giving, where voters go to Facebook to decide which charities will receive enormous donations from Chase.

Animal lovers Somerhalder and Padalecki are rallying their dedicated fans and encouraging them to vote for their charities – both of which encourage adoption of abandoned animals.

Somerhalder is throwing his voice behind no-kill animal shelter St. Tammany Humane Society in his home town of Covington, La. “Can I ask a huge favor! Doesn’t cost a thing- can you guys please vote for my no-kill shelter at home in louisiana to receive much $ from Chase,” Somerhalder tweeted. “They are doing amazing job and deserve this $!!! Please retweet!! Thanks! Love, Ian.”

The shelter’s mission, as stated on their website, is “To save the life of every adoptable animal in our community through education, adoption and spay/neuter programs.”

Padalecki supports A Dog’s Life Rescue, a Los Angeles-based dog rescue organization that holds pet adoption events almost every week. Because he does not have a Twitter account — seriously — he took a different route. On a break from filming a “Supernatural” episode directed by his co-star Jensen Ackles, Padalecki made a short video message for his fans and other animal lovers.

You can vote for your favorite charity (or your favorite CW star) on Chase’s Facebook page. The charity with the most votes will recieve $250,000 from Chase. Four other charities will get $100,000 donations, and 195 other organizations will get $20,000 — to total five million dollars in donations.

Voting ends tomorrow, July 13, so get your votes in right away. Let us know in the comments which one you’re behind. “The Vampire Diaries” has better ratings, but we’re thinking “Supernatural” might just have the most dedicated fans. The race is on…

We’re voting for both organizations. Abandoned pets in Louisiana and Los Angeles can use the help — we’re sure that both Somerhalder and Padalecki would agree.

     

Ian Somerhalder har avslöjat at han är väldigt nöjd med hur Lost slutade. Ian Somerhalder som spelade Boone i serien, förklarade att avsnittet inte kunde ha nöjt alla.  
 
- “The finale was such a monumental thing because it spanned six years of phenomenal storytelling,” sa han till AOL.

- “For some viewers it was exuberant because it answered the questions they wanted answering and it was somewhat disappointing for other viewers.”

Han lade till:
- “We all had an idea of where we wanted the story to go and it ended, I think, very powerfully, very neatly, and yet like any good story it still left you answering questions.”

 

Som vi alla vet är det ett faktum att både Ian Somerhalder (Damon Salvatore) och Paul Wesley (Stefan Salvatore) är två av världens mest vackraste individer med deras charmerande drag och unika personligheter. Nu så har både Paul och Ian hamnat på Topp 10 Prime Time Hunks Genom Tiderna. Paul på Tredje plats och Ian på Sjätte plats! WOW!! 


STORT grattis ni förtjänar det Paul och Ian!

  






     
 

          


      


                               

Coup De Main Magazine’s gjorde igår en väldigt bra intervju med Ian Somerhalder så jag tänkte lägga upp den här för er. I intervjun berättar Ian bland annat om hur det är att jobba i The Vampire Diaries, om sin karaktär Damon i serien, om hur han fick rollen som Damon och massor med andra saker.


Här är intervju, läs och tyck till! 
   



What is ‘The Vampire Diaries’ all about?
IAN SOMERHALDER: ‘The Vampire Diaries’ is a story about two vampire brothers and a girl they were both in love with many, many years ago, way back in time. My character Damon feels like he was wronged by his brother over a century ago and is extraordinarily upset, so my brother Stefan and myself have been feuding for about 145 years. Also, the one brother Stefan has decided to stop feasting on people and that makes being a vampire very boring, so we have split as brothers. So Stefan turns up in this town where we are from and where we were turned into vampires, and he gets settled, finds a girl, starts to feel something, finally, and then I inexorably as always show up to remind him that I want to make his life a living hell. And again we end up in a very interesting love triangle with a beautiful mortal girl, Elena.

Your character has more power than his, it looks like Damon can really kick Stefan’s ass. Will it ever
be a fair fight between these two?
SOMERHALDER: There are a couple of factors that create the reason why there’s an imbalance of power. One of them is the fact that you have to feed as a vampire and I deliberately decided to not stop feeding on people and the problem with that is, it makes it invariably difficult for him to take him out because there’s an imbalance of power. In the vampire world, if you eat people you have unbelievable amounts of power. If you eat squirrels and bunnies and rats because you don’t want to kill people, it makes you pretty weak. Stefan doesn’t have the strength that I have, so until he decides to start feeding on people I will have the ability to kick his ass. But when that changes it’s going to be a problem because look how strong Paul is!


We’re really used to seeing you as quite a sweet character on ‘Lost’ and now you’re bad. Is that fun?
SOMERHALDER: It is! You know why? Because bad guys have fun. That’s the whole point, that’s what’s so great about it. And I think what’s really the allure of these types of roles is that you don’t have to take yourself so seriously. That is fun. On ‘Lost’, Boone was just… I mean, poor guy, bless his heart. He just never really had time to grow as a character, unfortunately. But this guy, Damon, he controls life; life doesn’t control him. Except for the fact that it does stop him sometimes and makes him work a little harder. But Damon has, you know, an immense amount of power, especially playing a vampire, you relinquish all of those mortal restraints. I have immense amount[s] of powers. I have mind manipulation powers; I can look at you and make you think what I want. I mean, come on, how cool is that? That comes in handy. But also when stuff like that doesn’t work, which is very rare, it throws him. The thing is about Stefan is, imagine being 175 years old and the one thing you had in your life, the love of your life was taken away from you? And you feel as if you were wronged in such a way that you have a vendetta of 145 years. Basically I promised my brother that I am going to make his life miserable for eternity. So Damon literally feels as if he’s just keeping a promise. And so when someone really believes in what they’re doing, that’s what’s so great about bad guys. That’s why we like bad guys, because they’re fun. Do you know what I mean? They’re fun and they do what they want.

Why do girls like bad guys?
SOMERHALDER: Girls like bad guys just as much as guys like bad girls because bad guys don’t give a shit. They don’t care.

We like that!
SOMERHALDER: Exactly. They do what they want and they have fun doing it and so I think that there is an allure to a guy who says: “I’m gonna do whatever the hell I want and I’m gonna have a blast doing it and there is not a damn thing you can do about it.” And I think that that power – you know, we’re attracted to power. It’s not even power, we’re attracted to confidence, we’re attracted to someone who knows what they want and how to get it. And this guy is the epitome of that. I mean, he knows what he wants and he definitely gets it.


So you are playing a bad guy vampire heartthrob!
SOMERHALDER: I don’t know about the heartthrob part! He definitely has fun but the problem is he has fun as he hurts people. So Damon is a little mean sometimes.


Can you identify with him?
SOMERHALDER: I can’t identify with wanting to hurt people, but what I can identify with is that he does things out of loneliness. Imagine you are cast away as an immortal for an eternity and the one person you have is your brother and you can no longer be around him, you fight so much because you’re not the same any more, he stopped feeding on people so he lost all of his powers, so it’s kind of impossible to hang out with him and Damon does a lot of what he does out of pure loneliness. Being lonely drives you to do some really crazy stuff.


Will he ever show a good side to his character over the season?
SOMERHALDER: Absolutely. He is fiercely loyal and I think that’s the beauty of it. There’s a lot of edge and heaviness but also a lot of levity. He may sound like a negative character but there’s so much comedy. Bad guys love to have fun, that’s why they do what they do. And I think that levity is a lot of fun to play. It’s going in and out of finding bits of humanity and I look forward to playing that. I think Damon is going to be a lot of fun to play. I’ve just read the new episode last night. It’s awesome, it’s compelling, it’s fast. And I am vicious, vicious, vicious! But yet you start to find…

Some redeeming qualities in him?
SOMERHALDER: Maybe. I think there are some twists and turns that really add to the dynamics of this whole situation and it’s great. I mean, we’re really excited.

How was the audition process for you?
SOMERHALDER: Getting these roles for each and every one of us was extraordinarily horrible. Julie and Kevin fought tooth and nail for us. Nobody wanted me! But the process of starting a television show you go to meetings after meetings, I got to the network and bombed it and almost didn’t go back. Those guys [Julie and Kevin] really got me back in the room, but the process was intense and playing this kind of role, there’s an ease to it and you get into these situations in these rooms with these networks and it’s really a high stakes environment and if you, for some reason, get nervous, drink too much coffee, take too much B12, guess what? Your energy level skyrockets and you sort of get out of your rhythm and it’s really heart-breaking to find something that you know in the deepest deep of your soul that you can play and you kind of blow it. So that was an amazing ride and I went through it with those guys, we went through it together and to now have this kind of role which is so fun and dynamic, it’s a blast!


There are a lot of theories of how you can kill a vampire…
SOMERHALDER: Well, yeah, but with these guys not very many of those traditional ways of killing a vampire work. We have these lapis stone rings that allow us to go in the sun. I mean, look at me, I’m tanned. Damon likes going to the Virgin Islands, you know what I mean? It’s like, why not? I can’t wait, I’m going to pitch that idea to Kevin. “God, we should do this episode where it cuts to Damon, but he’s on a beach in the Caribbean for a couple of episodes.” No, but errr… obviously there’s garlic, a silver bullet – but I don’t think any of those work on these guys. Except for if you take off your ring and you walk into the sun, you’re toast.  But a stake through the heart is always a big problem for a vampire. Always problematic – stakes in the heart. But not garlic, no.


That’s just a turn-off anyway!
SOMERHALDER: I love garlic. What other ways are there?

In Mexico there is a traditional old fighter, el Santo, a guy with a mask, who used to kill vampires with silver bullets.
SOMERHALDER: Yeah, silver bullets. I mean, these guys we heal immediately. Like you can’t drop a guy out of an airplane, you can’t throw him off a building, you can’t cut his head off. So it’s a bitch to kill a vampire, especially us.


How is ‘The Vampire Diaries’ different to ‘Twilight’?
SOMERHALDER: I would say in the realm of there’s a certain edge to this show and that by virtue of that edge, it adds a whole other layer of intensity. It’s obviously shot much differently, but yes there are similarities and we’re very happy ‘Twilight’ exists. These books are a bit older than ‘Twilight’. ‘Twilight’ has been happening once a year and this happens once a week – that may prove to be helpful and successful.

Are you ready for the kind of attention you’re going to get because vampires are very, very popular at the moment? I was talking to Stephen Moyer from ‘True Blood’ and he was saying that women come up to him and ask him to bite them.
SOMERHALDER: That’s pretty cool. <laughs> That’s pretty cool.


There is going to be a lot of attention on you…
SOMERHALDER: You know what? I live in Georgia.

Not quite Hawaii?
SOMERHALDER: No, it’s not even that. Hawaii was great too because we were so detached from it all, you know? I’m actually very thankful that we’re shooting in a place that is not a big city like Los Angeles or New York. I mean, Atlanta, excuse me, don’t get me wrong, it’s a huge city. But you can be really isolated there. I can spend a lot of time in the country. I can also fly home to be with my family all the time. I can go fishing in the Florida Keys. I can just disappear and it’s quick. I mean, that attention is all very cool. I think that vampires are huge right now and, you know, you welcome that. It’s always so fun to have a great job. We’re so lucky to have this show. Kevin is like crazy genius. Kevin and Julie and Marcos Siega, who directed the pilot and is directing a bunch of episodes, who is our supervising producer, he’s living in Atlanta with us, overseeing everything. So you know, it’s like you have this powerhouse of genius minds working around the clock. These guys are working their asses off and so are we. I mean, I just flew in here for the day. I haven’t slept in two days…

You are a vampire now.
SOMERHALDER: I am. I feel like a vampire.

Under en lång period har vi vetat att Ian Somerhalder har jobbat för att göra världen grönare, nu jobbar han med att få kulisserna på The Vampire Diaries. Det är så härligt att få se att Ian är så jordnära fast han är en kändis.

Här är två artiklar som Carina Mackenzie från Zap2It har skrivit, inklusive en med Sofia Bush och Austin Nichols från One Tree Hill som handlar om var de upptäckte i Mexikanska Golf kusten när de besökte den förra veckan. 

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Här är en intervju som hon har gjort med Ian Somerhalder, här partar han om hur han kommer att jobba med ett nytt mobil elbolag för att göra The Vampire Diaries kulisserna grönare.

To do his part, Somerhalder has joined forces with Go Green Mobile Power. “You’re the first person I’m telling this,” he shares. “I just became involved with a very strong green energy company that produces portable, mobile green power. The company’s called Go Green Mobile Power. Our first prototype is going to be done in a few days.”

Go Green Mobile Power will create portable solar/wind/biodiesel generators for use in the film and event industry (as well as other arenas), to replace the off-grid dirty energy that’s traditionally used on location.

“It takes a lot of power to run a movie set. We go through a lot of fuel,” Somerhalder says. “It’s harmful, and we can start changing that a little bit. We can get rid of these noisy, stinky, disgusting gas generators. There’s going to be a lot of thought that goes into this revolution that’s going to happen.”

“We’re dealing with California Transportation Department, we’re dealing with the Department of Defense, we’re dealing with disaster relief — but we’re also dealing with the entertainment industry. We’ll be taking major productions green, like big concerts and music festivals. Greening the ‘Vampire Diaries’ set is a priority for me, which we’re going to be doing this year.”

Read the rest of the interview.

 

För några dagar sedan så deltog Ian Somerhalder och många andra kändisar i Larry King's 2 timmar Telethon: "Disaster in the Gulf: How you can help". The Telethon samlade in över 1.3 miljoner dollar den kvällen, men man kan fortfarande donera till fonden. 

Här är några bilder av Ian när han är med och en video från CNN. 

Charmerande Ian, ska spela Ian O'Shea?


En rykande ny nyhet om att Ian Somerhalder kommer att få spela Ian O'Shea i The Host. The Host (genom dina ögon) är ännu en bok skriven av Stephanie Meyer dock tillhör den inte till Twilight- serien. Ian är den enda som är listad som rollmedlem i "IMDB", vi får bara se och vänta om vem som får de andra rollerna.

OBS! Detta är endast ett rykte.

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Ian Somerhalder, som spelar Damon Salvatore i The Vampire Diaries, vill ha just din hjälp för att rädda pelikanerna som lever runt om i Mexikanska Golfen. Han har själv hjälp till med att rädda några pelikaner, vilket jag tycker är toppen snällt av honom. Du själv kan hjälpa till med en donation, själv kan jag inte resa till USA just nu men jag har skänkt pengar som går till att rädda just dessa utrotningshotade pelikanarter som lever där. Tänk på framtiden och donera nu, allt kan göra en förändring så se nu till att hjälpa.

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