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The Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev: Which Award-Winning Show Wanted Her to Get Naked?

f you think you’ve been seeing a lot of Nina Dobrev lately, it’s not just because The Vampire Diaries stunner has been burning up Fashion Week by hitting five shows in two days.

It must also be because you caught sight of her—and we mean a whole lot of her—on the current cover of Entertainment Weekly, in which the porcelain beauty gets hot and heavy with her hunkalicious vampire costars Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder. (Nope, her vampire-centric life definitely doesn’t, ahem, suck.)

We nabbed the classy and charming star backstage at the Monique Lhuillier show to ask her about that shoot, and she gave us some fun scoop about flashing flesh—for magazine shoots and TV shows.

Get this: She even once passed on a part in an award-winning TV series because she wasn’t ready to drop trou…

Read more at: eonline

Daniel Gillies plays formidable Elijah foe-turned-ally in Season 3 of “The Vampire Diaries.” After being resurrected for the fourth time in the series, Gillies shares his insights on the show’s star, Nina Dobrev, who plays small-town doppelganger Elena Gilbert, the future of the Original vampire clan and the classical nature of his character. But Elijah isn’t Gillies’ main focus — upcoming projects include the NBC medical drama “Saving Hope,” with “Smallville’s” Erica Durance and Michael Shanks, and a new film, “Broken Kingdom,” with Rachel Leigh Cook that he wrote and directed. This is Part 2 of an interview with Nardine Saad; you can read Part 1 here.

NS: You say Elijah has been around for 1,000 years, yet he’s still getting duped by “ludicrous nothings.” Do you consider Elena a “nothing?”

DG: I’m certainly not calling Elena nothing. Yes, that instance with the lake [was a nothing]. But the fact [is] that he can’t identify danger and yet he’s supposed to be — like all of the Originals — this formidable adversary. For some reason, he drops his guard too much.

read more of this interview at latimes.com