Almost a decade after The Vampire Diaries got here to an finish, Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley are reuniting for a brand new present.
The previous costars will government produce and star in Hulu’s You Should Know, which is predicated on the 2025 thriller ebook of the identical title by Aggie Blum Thompson. Based on the official logline, You Should Know “follows three suburban {couples} — subsequent door neighbors and greatest pals. When one in all their husbands is murdered, a surprising path of secrets and techniques is revealed, and their friendship cracks vast open.”
Dobrev, 37, celebrated the information on Thursday, June 25, writing by way of Instagram, “I’ve been ready to share this one. We fell in love with this novel and getting to assist form its adaptation from each side of the digital camera has been extremely thrilling.”
Earlier than working collectively on You Should Know, Wesley, 43, and Dobrev stole followers’ hearts on The CW’s The Vampire Diaries. The sequence, which aired from 2009 to 2017, centered on a love triangle between Elena (Dobrev) and brothers Stefan (Wesley) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder).
The Vampire Diaries didn’t simply have numerous {couples} on display screen — many forged members discovered love with their costars or members of the prolonged franchise. After The Vampire Diaries debuted on The CW in 2009, viewers rapidly obtained invested within the supernatural occasions happening within the fictional city of Mystic Falls, Virginia. On the […]
Dobrev and Wesley beforehand shocked followers by discussing their preliminary rigidity on set.
“Paul and I didn’t get alongside at the start of the present. I revered Paul Wesley, I didn’t like Paul Wesley,” Dobrev recalled on a 2019 episode of the “Directionally Challenged” podcast, which was hosted by former costars Candice King and Kayla Ewell. “I bear in mind everybody would stroll as much as me after the present aired and so they’d be like, ‘Are you and Paul relationship in actual life?’ Everybody thought that we had such good chemistry. I understand now that there’s a nice line between love and hate, and we despised one another a lot that it learn as love, however … we actually simply didn’t get alongside [for] the primary 5 months of capturing.”
Dobrev, who dated Somerhalder, now 47, from 2010 to 2013, ultimately developed an in depth bond with Wesley.
“We ended up attending to a very good place and it was nice,” she concluded. “Of everybody, I feel I in all probability see him essentially the most and hang around with him essentially the most. We’re in all probability the closest. We hang around rather a lot. We’re actually good pals. … It’s so humorous how time modifications every part as a result of I by no means thought he could be one in all my greatest pals.”
Wesley, for his half, shared an analogous sentiment when he recalled the attention-grabbing method he took for his chemistry learn with Dobrev — ignoring her earlier than the audition.
“I had an actual particular method. Nina, who was already forged because the lead, was there and all people in that audition room throughout that course of was kissing her ass as a result of she was within the hallways. Everybody was going as much as her and saying hello. And I used to be like, ‘F*** that. I’m not going to look her within the eye and I’m additionally not going to introduce myself. I’m simply gonna sit within the nook,’” Wesley recalled throughout a 2023 episode of Michael Rosenbaum’s “Within You” podcast.
The Vampire Diaries’ 2009 premiere launched followers to probably the most memorable vampire-themed sequence thus far. The CW present, which ran for eight seasons till 2017, came about within the fictional city of Mystic Falls, Virginia, house to legendary creatures and people alike. Along with tales of individuals changing into vampires, or discovering out […]
The actor used Stefan and Elena’s backstory within the pilot as inspiration.
“[I didn’t do that] as a result of I used to be making an attempt to be impolite. However as a result of within the scene, we have been speculated to not know who each other is,” he famous. “It’s speculated to be a thriller. We have been supposed to fulfill for the primary time. We have been supposed to fulfill at that precise second. And I assumed, ‘Nicely, f*** that. I would like our second to be actually particular. I would like her to get to know me in that second.’”
Wesley stated Dobrev didn’t have the very best first impression of him due to his methodology performing.
“Nina remembers this and I simply bear in mind her trying over at me desirous to say hello to me and introduce herself. I simply turned away. I feel she thought initially, like, ‘Who the f*** does this man assume he’s?’” he continued. “However anyway, I went in there and I simply bear in mind the audition and the primary time we ever met in actual life was truly in that audition room. It was only a very magical second. And I felt it. She felt [it] and I do know all these studio executives felt it. And I feel that’s what landed me the half.”
