4. Search for the Salvatores
After they find their ideal woman, TVDThe essential triangle required the male component. This was no easy task.
Julie said that they looked “high and low” to cast Stefan Damon. Julie also noted Nina’s “chemistry reading after chemistry reading with multiple actors.” Julie concluded.
Actors who have read both (and sometimes both) roles are not uncommon. roles? Zach Roerig(who would later play Matt Donovan) Michael TrevinoWho would play Tyler Lockwood? Nathanial Buzolic (later cast as Kol), and 7th Heavenstar David GallagherJulie admitted that the former “impressed us so much initially…but the entire…” 7th HeavenIt makes me wonder if he will ever get over that.” After seeing him, she would cast him as werewolf. Super 8.)
Finally, the men found them.
“Paul, Ian sort of came in later in the process. Julie stated that Paul auditioned 15 times and Ian appeared completely random. For her part, Nina recalled Paul (who first read for Damon!) standing out from the rest of the guys reading opposite her in the chemistry reads: “The only one who wasn’t trying too hard, that didn’t speak to me at any point unless we were filming, was Paul Wesley—so it’s funny to think that he did the right thing,” she told EW.