00:03 | [applause] vampires are still hot, you know? |
00:04 | they really are. You can't beat a good vampire. |
00:06 | our next guest plays a bad boy blood sucker Damon Salvatore from the cw hit series The Vampire Diaries please welcome ian somerhalder. |
00:20 | ian, look at you! Good to see you. how are you, buddy? -- Good to see you. |
00:25 | Hi -- hi. |
00:26 | Good to see you. -- I like your vampire entrance music. -- Thank you. |
00:32 | Oh, Ian Ian. Yeah, it is good see you -- Good to see you as well |
00:35 | everybody knows it's vampire walk-on music. |
00:40 | That's what I -- I hear that in my sleep. |
00:43 | ian's originally from new orleans. Modeled there for a long time. And wound up here in new york city. Still modeling, huh? |
00:51 | At the time, yes. It's a long time ago. |
00:53 | yeah, sure. |
00:54 | And I just past the building I was living in. -- Oh really? |
00:57 | This is like 1995. |
00:59 | Yeah you lived in one of those model houses with a bunch of models? |
01:02 | Yeah, it was pretty cool when you're 16 and I don't think anyone was over 20. -- right. Of course not. |
01:12 | Sheet metal. Summertime. |
01:14 | tanning. -- Oh, yeah. |
01:17 | feeling good and looking strong. |
01:20 | no food in the refrigerator. No. |
01:23 | The 3-year-old bottle of mustard. |
01:26 | that's it.That's right. |
01:30 | But since then, things have changed and you've done quite well including you were on "lost" for a year, right? Which has become a big abc hit. |
01:39 | it is. And I was here. |
01:41 | that's right. Right after they killed me. This was my last stop. |
01:46 | did the dinosaur get you? -- yeah. |
01:49 | Dinosaur. tell me the truth. You don't care anymore. |
01:51 | You're off the show. |
01:53 | Do me a favor. Tell me the truth. What is killing off all the people on the island? You don't care. |
02:59 | You're on another series, another network. |
02:01 | Is it a dinosaur or not? |
02:03 | the flu. |
02:04 | the flu? |
02:06 | I keep seeing the shadow of a dinosaur. |
02:10 | I fell 30,000 feet off a 767 and survived. |
02:15 | And I fell 30,000 out of a beach craft and died. |
02:21 | I don't know. |
02:22 | listen. I used to work on a soap opera and I know that death is not enough to kill a character. |
02:28 | Are you coming back? -- I am. |
02:30 | I knew it! Death never kills anybody on a tv show. |
02:34 | I'm really thankful and really happy that those guys figured that all out. It's fun. I flew back. I already we want back. |
02:41 | 10-Hour night there, 10-hour flight back and then I was on the ground for 24 hours. |
02:47 | So in a 40-hour period. |
02:48 | we're talking about Lost -- yeah. |
02:51 | is it a flashback? |
02:54 | you can't reveal. What if ... |
02:55 | Damon would shoot me. -- Really? |
02:59 | I can be persuaded ... |
03:01 | make him talk. |
03:02 | We're going to take a break and come back and talk about "the ..... |
03:10 | deeply. |
03:12 | back now with ian somerhalder. |
03:15 | We're going to talk about this new series now, "the vampire series" but there was another series a few years ago before this. |
03:23 | "Trueblood," that you went up for. -- Oh, no. |
03:24 | And what happened there? |
03:27 | I bombed the audition with alan ball. |
03:29 | what does that mean? |
03:31 | I just couldn't... I couldn't... I just... I blew it. |
03:36 | And I couldn't... and I was reallybummed and I couldn't watch "trueblood" at all. |
03:43 | Because I was really sad. |
03:45 | So that along comes "the vampire diaries" and you give it another try. |
03:48 | And I got this one -- Really? |
03:49 | Was hard, but I got it. |
03:51 | And now, I can watch "true blood" |
03:58 | when I was acting and like any job that I auditioned for that I didn't get, i couldn't watch and eventually, i threw my television off the window. |
04:07 | I couldn't even watch commercials. |
04:09 | I think there's a legality factor. |
04:12 | but vampires continue to be hot, right? |
04:13 | The audiences love them. |
04:15 | It's an interesting thing. yeah. |
04:20 | is there anything different about your vampire in this, "the vampire diaries" series? |
04:24 | As an anecdote about my vampire ... |
04:26 | Vampires are vampires, right? |
04:28 | No, mine is the coolest one though. |
04:30 | what makes your vampire so cool? |
04:33 | Because he -- I don't know. He dresses well. Gets all the girls. |
04:38 | yeah. |
04:38 | He's got the best lines. |
04:39 | Kevin Williamson likes the best lines. |
04:41 | He is such a good dialog writer ... he writes the best conversations. |
04:46 | he is the best. Does the best. |
04:47 | but this is about a high school girl who is in love? |
04:50 | Yeah, really original story. |
04:56 | mortal girl finds herself in love with a vampire. |
05:01 | And then sort of in this weird triangle with him and his brother. -- a-ha. |
05:07 | oh, you're the brother. |
05:10 | You're the brother and you're also the vampire. |
05:12 | I'm the brother and the vampire. |
05:14 | We're having so much fun doing this. |
05:16 | I want to know when did vampires become sexy and not scary? |
05:20 | I remember being afraid of vampires. -- Yeah. |
05:22 | When I was a kid, I remember it being scary. |
05:33 | bites you right in the throat. |
05:36 | You want me to? |
05:35 | but all of a sudden, you get a good-looking guy like this. |
05:39 | do you think that count chocula paved the way? |
05:43 | I think he sweetened the deal. |
05:47 | that is good. |
05:50 | Good one. |
05:51 | well "the vampire diaries on the cw. Ian, good luck on this one, baby, ok? -- Thanks. |
06:00 | I don't think I'm going to die now. -- no. -- Don't you die. |