4. The Seek for the Salvatores
After discovering their main girl, TVD wanted the 2 male parts of the important love triangle. No simple process.
“We regarded excessive and low to solid Stefan and Damon,” Julie defined, noting Nina “did chemistry learn after chemistry learn with a number of actors.”
A number of the actors who learn for both (and typically each!) roles? Zach Roerig (who would go on to play Matt Donovan), Michael Trevino (who would land the function of Tyler Lockwood), Nathanial Buzolic (later solid as Kol), and seventh Heaven star David Gallagher, with Julie admitting of the latter, “He impressed us a lot initially…however the entire seventh Heaven factor, I ponder if he’ll ever be capable of get previous that.” (She would later solid him as a werewolf after seeing Tremendous 8.)
After which, lastly, they discovered their guys: Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder.
“Paul and Ian sort of got here in late within the course of. Paul auditioned like 15 instances, and Ian sort of appeared out of the blue,” Julie mentioned. For her half, Nina recalled Paul (who first learn for Damon!) standing out from the remainder of the fellows studying reverse her within the chemistry reads: “The one one who wasn’t attempting too exhausting, that did not converse to me at any level except we have been filming, was Paul Wesley,”she advised EW, “so it is humorous to suppose that he did the correct factor,”
