Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder Still Love Their Bourbon, Bromance and Former Costars — But They Won’t Do a ‘Vampire Diaries’ Spinoff
usmagazine.comMoving forward. More than 13 years after meeting on The Vampire Diaries set, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder are closer than ever — but they aren’t ready to put the fangs on again.“No … I’m vampired out,” Wesley, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly when asked if he’d like a TVD spinoff while at a pre-U.S.
Open Kick Off event in New York City hosted by the Tennis Channel and Brother’s Bond Bourbon on Tuesday, August 23.Somerhalder, 43, said they would be happy to return behind the camera. “Well, we would go … like, if we were to direct,” the Louisiana native said.Wesley did just that for Legacies, the TVD spinoff that concluded after four seasons in June.
Now, however, the Brother’s Bond Bourbon cofounders — who played brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore for eight seasons on The CW hit — are a little busy.
Wesley, for his part, is “super proud of” his role as a young Captain James T. Kirk (the character William Shatner made famous) in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.Somerhalder, meanwhile, is focused on his environmental and animal activism in addition to being a girl dad.
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