We sat down with the cast of The Vampire Diaries over the weekend, and here’s what they had to say about season 6!
Cures and Dopplegangers
We started off our interviews with the cast by asking Julie Plec about cures. Are we done with cures for the series? There was only ever one cure that was taken by Katherine, but with the spells that the Travelers tried performing to rid magic from Mystic Falls and eventually turning everyone back into their original state before they’d turned, we were curious.
Plec responded by saying “Well, I can’t say we’re done with it. We’re done as in with there’s one cure and it was taken, we’re done with the Other Side, so the options for how to cure a vampire are pretty limited if not non-existent.”
This lead to a discussion of dopplegangers as well. If you were worried about an over-abundance of dopplegangers on season 6, fear not. “For now the dopplegangers are put to bed, if nothing else to give our team a little break so they only have to play one person at once.”
New season, new mysteries.
Plec was also asked how different next season is going to be, and how they’re going to handle all the changes. “Interestingly enough we’re not making big changes so much as we’re consolidating the tone of the show back to what we loved so much with the first two seasons, which is mystery and suspense and character drama,” she explains.
“There’s a great mystery at the center of the year which we’re excited about. And we’re really going to get to explore characters individually and relationships individually without having to top ourselves with mythology that we left off with.”
So what about the new characters? Plec teased us about the return of Alaric and the
various new characters cast over the past month, but we were particularly curious about Luke: Will he and his sister stick around? Without Luke there would be no representation of the LGBTQ community on
The Vampire Diaries, so we had to ask!
Plec gave us the answer we were hoping for, stating “I’ll put it this way: He and his twin have a pretty good story line that we’ve got cooked up for them. We talk everyday about how to create some sort of long term place for him in the show – a relationship, something like that – we still haven’t cracked it that it would demand the story that deserves to be told. But we don’t have any plans to get rid of him anytime soon.”
What about Bonnie and Damon?!
When asked if we’ll see the place Damon and Bonnie are in, Plec gave us a definitive yes. Admittedly we knew this already, but she added onto that by saying “Where [Damon] is, why is he there, where is it, and how do they get out are the big questions that give us the first run of episodes this season. We’ve developed quite an interesting world and context for them, and the two of them together is going to be a lot of fun.”
Season 6, episode 1
When asked about what Elena’s mental state is going to be next season, Nina Dobrev had to be particularly vague. She explains, saying her vagueness “is because the first episode is all about that – her mentality – and it’s very confusing actually. I don’t think everyone deals with death in this manner, but she does some pretty strange things because you wonder if she’s actually sane – she’s going crazy, but it doesn’t seem that way to the naked eye at first. It’s odd but it makes for a great story.”
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Matt Davis, who plays Alaric on The Vampire Diaries, said he was considering walking away from the show after he got tired of making sporadic guest appearances.
