After finding their leading lady, TVD She needed the two masculine components of the primary love triangle. Not an easy task.

“We looked high and low for Stefan and Damon highlighting,” Jolie explained, noting that Nina “read chemistry after reading chemistry with multiple actors.”

Some actors who have read about any of the roles (and sometimes both!)? Zach Roerig (Who will continue to play Matt Donovan), Michael Trevino (Who will land the role of Tyler Lockwood), Nathaniel Bozolik (later cast as Kol), and 7th sky star David Gallagherwith Julie admitting the latter, “It impressed us a lot originally…but all 7th sky The thing is, I wonder if one day he’ll be able to get past that.” Super 8.)

Then, at last, they found their men.

“Paul and Ian came in late in the process. Paul had a performance 15 times, and Ian kind of came up all of a sudden,” Julie said. For her part, Nina remembered that Paul (who first read to Damon!) stood out among the rest of the men who read before her in chemistry: “The only person who didn’t try hard, and never spoke to me unless we were filming, was Paul Wesley.” – So it’s funny to think that he did the right thing. EW . said.