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Vampire Diaries' Dobrev: It'd Be a Shame if Damon and Elena Didn't Fight for Their Love

Sep 13, 2013 10:31 AM ET
by Robyn Ross

Now that Elena has professed her love for Damon on the The Vampire Diaries, the big question is: How long before Damon messes it up?

"One of the big obstacles [for them], especially for Damon, is to make sure he doesn't f--- it up because he has a tendency to do that whether he means to or not," Nina Dobrev tells us in the video interview below from the show's Atlanta set. "He's going to try to be on his best behavior and Elena is going to embrace him, but she knows who he is and sometimes that comes to the surface and reminds her. But they'll try to figure it out because love prevails and they want their love to conquer all. They have gone through so much to get to where they are now. If they didn't keep fighting for it, it would be a shame."


Last season, Elena experienced the biggest change of her life by becoming a vampire. From there, things went downhill. First, she lost her brother Jeremy (Steven McQueen) and then had her emotions turned off. After Elena finally hit rock bottom, she regained some humanity, leading to the ultimate swoon-worthy moment between her and Damon (Ian Somerhalder). But at the start of Season 5, the couple, certainly still in the honeymoon phase, will be hit with a number of challenges, including a lost-distance romance, new enemies at college, an evil villain they think is Stefan (Paul Wesley), and then the ultimate devastation when Elena learns that her previous love has been suffering all summer long.


"She knows she's in love with Damon, but she still cares for Stefan and wants to make sure he's OK," Dobrev recently told us. "When she finds out what he's been through, it's not easy for her."

Although it seems like the season is heading down its usual dark path, Dobrev says that at the beginning, at least, we'll see a "lighter" Elena.

"I've had so much fun playing Elena this season because she is lighter and happier," Dobrev says. "She's unaware of a pretty tragic thing that has happened, so she's not affected ... and it will go dark eventually, but right now she's carefree and fun-loving and excited about her new boyfriend and college."

Watch our interview for more from Dobrev on playing Katherine as a human and how Elena is finally embracing her vampire side.

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The Vampire Diaries' Ian Somerhalder: Silas Is Like Season 1 Damon
by Robyn Ross

If the newest villain on The Vampire Diaries seems a little familiar, it's because he's a lot like an early version of Damon Salvatore, Ian Somerhalder says.

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"Silas doesn't give a sh--," Somerhalder says in the video interview below from TVGuide.com's visit to the show's Atlanta set. "He's like Damon in Season 1. [He thinks,] 'I am almighty, all-powerful, I will mess you up. This is what I want. I'm going to kill everything in the wake if you screw this up for me, but I'm going to toy with you a little bit.'"

When Season 5 premieres (Thursday, Oct. 3 at 8/7c), Damon will find himself in an unfamiliar situation. His girlfriend Elena (Nina Dobrev) is away at college, he thinks his brother Stefan (Paul Wesley) has been gone for the summer, and his ex Katherine (Dobrev) is now human and shacking up at his house along with Elena's brother Jeremy (Steven McQueen), who has returned from the dead. Just another typical day in Mystic Falls, right? But for Damon, who has a penchant for screwing things up, he's surprisingly handling it all pretty well — all while acting unselfishly when it comes to Elena.

"You don't send your girl off to college who really needs a break from your hometown, and tell her 'I need you back here,'" Somerhalder says. "You're going to say, 'Go! As much as I want you here and as much as I want to spend time with you, you've got to go live your life.'"

Vampire Diaries' Dobrev: It'd be a shame if Damon and Elena didn't fight for their love

But even though he got the girl, is there a worry he'll lose her to her fellow college freshmen, or, more likely, her past love Stefan? Especially when she thinks there's something wrong with him?

"The beautiful thing about Elena is that she is so dialed into Stefan," Somerhalder says. "She's a compassionate human being, she loves so intensely and she has this pit in her stomach. She and Stefan particularly have this bond, and we later figure out in the mythology of the story why that is. But her having this feeling is genuine. Is there a worry in the back of Damon's mind that she could go back to him? Yeah, absolutely. He can't deny it and he won't deny it, but all he wants is for her to be happy. Stefan would do the same thing."

For more from Somerhalder, including how he characterizes Damon and Elena's relationship and what Damon and Jeremy are like as roommates, watch the video below.