Once again, MTV’s Hollywood Crush has delivered another awesome excerpt from their Vampire Diaries cast interviews. In this one , Kevin Williamson reveals some really exciting news about Bonnie, Caroline, Tyler and Matt. Watch the vid, but please head on over to Hollywood Crush for the rest of the interview. The video is only a portion of it.
Really awesome interview with Kevin Williamson from Blastr about how passionate he is about diversity and making sure everyone is represented on the show. He really wants to eventually incorporate a gay character on the show, he just doesn’t know when that will be. Check out this excerpt from the interview.
Gay teens are an important issue to Williamson outside of show business. He supports GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. “I’m sitting in the wings waiting,” he said. “I’m waiting. Which character can be gay? Which character won’t? Where will it fit in? How can I get the gay character in? I don’t want to sound like I’m a militant about it, like THERE MUST BE A GAY CHARACTER, even though I am. It’s not just that, it’s also diversity. I always feel like I don’t have enough diversity on my show, and that is one of the things I’m very conscientious of, and not just gay characters. Any diversity. In anything, I want everyone represented. I want everybody on the show.”
Here are two more video interviews from MTV’s Hollywood Crush. In the first one, we learn that Elena will ultimately find out why she looks like Katherine. And in the next one Kevin Williamson and Steven R. McQueen discuss what Jeremy will be going through and how he will find himself in an unlikely relationship…click through to the interviews after each video to find out who it will be with!
Read more: ‘Vampire Diaries’ Season 2: Will Jeremy Be A Vampire? ‘He’s Dead Inside, No Matter What’
E!Online‘s Kristin Dos Santos chats it up with Ian, Paul, Nina, Steven and Kevin in the press room at Comic-Con. Here’s a great interview with Ian. He talks about the fans and makes the greatest statement when Kristin asks a question about whether he is able to walk through without getting mobbed. Here’s what he says,
“It’s not mobbed, it’s just a lot of enthusiasm in here. I think that people who complain about amazing fans appreciating what you are doing, and being happy and coming up to you, I think it’s lame (insert adorable Damon eye roll here) when people complain about that.”
Check out what Kristin says after, and I happen to agree with her. Yes, Ian, you made me love you even more. The rest of the interviews are after the jump.
Whoa…check out this major scoopage from executive producers Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec! The Vampire Diaries showrunners sat down with William Keck of TV Guide to discuss some of their season 2 secrets they are plotting. Here’s a little taste of the interview, but you MUST head on over to TV Guide for the rest!
TV Guide Magazine: Speaking of which, both Twilight and True Blood have plunged heavily into werewolf territory, which you are about to do in your new season.
Plec: We actually talked about this a lot, because we didn’t want to be the third to bring something to the table. But it’s in the Vampire Diaries books and the character of Tyler Lockwood could not and should not exist without this werewolf arc. We started laying the groundwork for this story all last season, so to negate that genre element would have been to negate the entire Tyler character.
Williamson: Every vampire story has a werewolf nearby. It’s just the way it is.TV Guide Magazine: What will your werewolves look like?
Williamson: Wolves, and we’ll show them transform. But not right away. And I think on True Blood their werewolves transform at will, whereas Tyler is bound by the full moon. Once a month he can’t control it.TV Guide Magazine: And now it’s looking as though True Blood is about to introduce werepanthers.
Williamson: Really? Well we’ll introduce were-armadillos!
Fancast has posted a 5 question Q&A with Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson. Here are a couple they answered, and you can view the rest over at Fancast.
Do you have a favorite episode, line, or scene from this season? If so – what?
There are a few moments in the finale that qualify as my favorite but you’ll have to wait for it. I’m particularly proud of 105. It was early on and we were still finding the show. I felt this episode brought all the elements together for me. The writing, directing, design, acting, photography, wardrobe, hair/make-up, everything came together for me and I truly saw the “epic” that Julie and I had envisioned.
Did anything disappoint you about this season? Anything you wish you could have done, but didn’t have the time, forethought or resources?
We wish we could have spent considerably more time on set with our great production staff and cast. Shooting in Atlanta, with the writer’s room in LA, it was difficult to make that happen sometimes. I wish we had more prep time with the scripts — time is always a factor. A few more bucks and we might have seen that church burn to the ground in an 1864 flashback — but I’m genuinely happy. I think our cast and Atlanta team did an amazing job of making or scripts sing. It was a tough first year and I couldn’t be happier with the results.
Oh wow, this is an awesome interview with Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson, our amazing showrunners for our beloved Vampire Diaries. They talk to Deadline Hollywood about how the show ended up on the CW, how the two are pretty much joined at the hip, their writing process, and a bunch of awesome amazing stuff including Twitter fans. Just be sure and click through and read the rest of this interview, you won’t be disappointed!
DH: Tell me logistically how this show got on The CW and how it work now.
JP: We got hired to do this job in November of last year, we immediately wrote the script, pilot season was essentially already over, and this was a late thing for [Vampire producer] Warner Bros. and for The CW. We wrote the script as quickly as possible over Christmas [2008], handed it in January [2009], it was ordered to pilot within a week of us handing it in, we then produced and made the pilot in Vancouver in March and April. And then immediately turned around and posted it in an accelerated 10-day process, and delivered it. It got picked up within a week, and the first day after the upfront week, when we went to announce the show in May [2009], we started our writers.
KW: The minute we started, we were already a month behind. One of the reasons for that is The CW has an early season launch — they launch in September when the other networks are mid-October or beyond — so that was a handicap for us.
JP: We have a full production office and all of our stages and all of our actors are in Atlanta for the whole time. And we have here in L.A. all of our post-production and everything involved in post, and our writers. In a perfect world Kevin and I should be in both places all the time, and unfortunately for us we haven’t been able to go back and forth as much as we would like.
KW: I also think we have the most amazing postproduction team too. I am working with some of the best editors I’ve ever worked with in my life. That has just been such a tremendous help for the process. We’re lucky that all the other elements came together so Julie and I can just agonize over the scripts. Because we’re writers.
JP: If you think about it, we are making 22 movies [per season], 22 shoots and 22 preps, you have to sign off on 22 episodes worth of wardrobe, photos and props, etc, etc. And on top of all that you have to actually sit down and be creative, and write. If there is one person on the planet who says they can do it all by themselves, they are lying And if any one of those departments is not doing it well, it’s disastrous. It’s a catastrophe.
KW: The only department that’s not working [well] is us. Everyone else is doing their jobs like gangbusters. The problem is really Julie and Kevin.
Kevin Williamson talks to IF Magazine about how he believes they have “scored” with the casting of Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley and why Covington, GA is the perfect “Mystic Falls”.
The casting is a source of particular satisfaction for Williamson. “You know, it is always hard to find that anchor. If you look at the CW, there is always that anchor girl. All the shows, they always have that one girl who is the anchor of the show who everything revolves around. And it is so hard to cast that part that you actually see when you do it and when you don’t do it. And I’ve seen shows that don’t do it, and it’s sad. We so scored with her and the two guys [Somerhalder and Wesley]. I mean, I feel like I’ve hit a home run and for whatever part I played in that, I pat myself on the back, because that has saved me so many. They just save me on a daily basis. They’re so good. [Debrev] started out brilliant and she’s still pretty brilliant. I think what’s changed is they’re all getting more comfortable in their roles, and so there’s this feeling that she’s taking over the role now. She owns it, it’s hers now. It’s a lot more about getting the script– it’s just her now. I feel like now I’m writing for Elena/Nina, who are all one and the same now. Not only that, but she delivers on the first take. This is a girl who just walks in the door and is ready. She’s a natural. She knows what she’s doing and she’s so talented. We haven’t even tapped her. I don’t know if we’ll even be able to tap her for this show. It might be a movie ten years from now that taps whatever else is in there. Because I’m going to try to use everything I can, but there’s a lot in there. And I think that girl is mega-talented.”
The series’ setting of Mystic Falls, Virginia is actually a location in Covington, Georgia. Williamson praises the Georgia Film Commission and the Atlanta Film Office for their helpfulness. “In the beginning, when I first went down there, they put me in a big old truck and drove me around to every town and showed me every single – “Well, this could be Mystic Falls, or this could be Mystic Falls.” We spent two days on the road and they showed me so much, and I realized how beautiful it was – it reminded me of growing up in North Carolina and it reminded me of small-town America, pre-Civil War. They had all the wonderful Civil War elements. I know that our flashbacks are a large part of the show and that we can really make them look great, but it’s all there. Covington is Mystic Falls. It has that beautiful little picture-perfect town, with the town square in the center with the statue. I think IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT was shot there. I know right before we were there, [the remake of] HALLOWEEN II shot there as Haddonfield, Illinois. Once I realized, ‘Well, this is where Michael Myers was,’ we were okay.”
