Thanks to Emily for the email alerting me to this great article and interview with Ian Somerhalder on TVGuide.com. Just be prepared to laugh out loud! That Ian Somerhalder is a trip! And be sure and click through to read the rest of the interview, and you’ll see what I’m talking about!

On the CW’s breakout hit The Vampire Diaries, Ian Somerhalder plays a nearly 170-year-old man who — perhaps unwittingly — became a vampire as a teen. Though the actor’s luck has been indisputably better than that of his character, Damon Salvatore, both have had the same response to the twists in their lives: outright glee.

For Damon, that giddiness manifests itself in the smirky, wanton torment of the people who surround him. In Somerhalder, fortunately, it takes a more gracious form.

“Right now, where I am, doing what I’m doing, it’s exactly where I want to be,” he says.

As Vampire Diaries wraps up its first season (Thursday at 9/8c), look to learn even more about Damon’s tortured past, as he teams up with vampire hunter Alaric to prevent a massacre at Mystic Falls’ annual Founders Day celebration. He won’t be entirely successful, and the subsequent tragedy will change Damon in the second season.

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