EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Vampire Diaries Star Sara Canning Reveals Show’s New Secrets
Beautiful Sara Canning has taken America by storm in her role as Jenna in the CW’s smash hit, and People’s Choice award winner for favorite new drama, The Vampire Diaries. She gave RadarOnline.com all the new details about her upcoming onscreen romance and her new real-life roommate.
“I was living on my own for the first part of the season,” Sara said about her arrangements in Atlanta, Georgia, where the show shoots. But now she has plans to room with co-star Nina Dobrev.
While shooting The Vampire Diaries the actors spend much of their time in thick fog and in dark graveyards which help set the spooky mood.
“Some of the locations are really, really creepy. You don’t have to use too much of your imagination. In fact, one night when I was driving with Kayla, the fog started coming in out of nowhere and we were like oooooohhhh, ‘when is Damon going to pop out?'”
Canning is definitely having fun with her role despite not being one of the high school characters. “I think Jenna is really fun to play because she is a parental figure on the show but is still really young herself,” the 22-year old actress said. “She is really feisty, spirited, and headstrong. And she’s still going through those rough patches with guys.”
Speaking of boys, she told RadarOnline.com that the relationship with a mysterious new history teacher will be heating up this season.
“He’s very handsome, they are just getting to know each other,” she said. “He’s played by Matt Davis who is hysterical and I love working with him. I think we’ll see that relationship develop quite a bit over the next few episodes.”
The changing face of evil
Vampires have come a long way since Max Schreck’s grotesque Nosferatu in 1922 and Bela Lugosi’s suavely creepy Dracula in 1931. In fact, by the look of the Cullen family in Twilight and New Moon, and the cross-purposed Salvatore brothers of The Vampire Diaries, vampires are some of the best-looking creatures walking the earth, undead or alive.
Ian Somerhalder is the heartthrob who stars as Damon, the evil vampire brother, in The Vampire Diaries. He and his brother Stefan, played by Paul Wesley, are attracted to the same high school girl. Stefan wants to protect her. Damon, however, wants to consume her.
“There are many layers of contradiction,” said Somerhalder. “Still, The Vampire Diaries is the PG [parental guidance suggested] version of the vampire myth. A 13-year-old can comfortably watch it with her mother beside her.”
That statement points up two of the major themes coursing through the genre’s resurgent popularity: a focus on a younger and younger audience and a focus on young females.
I am having fun with all the little tidbits being released about Vampire Diaries. I can’t wait for the show to return. We’ve got a lot of new cast to get to know and I’m dying to know more about Alaric and to see who or what caused Elena’s car accident.
The changing face of evil – I agree, evil has gotten glamorized and made into something pretty and alluring. What do you think?
