Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder Do not Need ‘Vampire Diaries’ Spinoff

Transferring ahead. Greater than 13 years after assembly on The Vampire Diaries set, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder are nearer than ever — however they aren’t able to put the fangs on once more.

“No … I’m vampired out,” Wesley, 40, solely informed Us Weekly when requested if he’d like a TVD spinoff whereas at a pre-U.S. Open Kick Off occasion in New York Metropolis hosted by the Tennis Channel and Brother’s Bond Bourbon on Tuesday, August 23.

Somerhalder, 43, stated they’d be joyful to return behind the digicam. “Properly, we’d go … like, if we were to direct,” the Louisiana native stated.

Wesley did simply that for Legacies, the TVD spinoff that concluded after 4 seasons in June. Now, nevertheless, the Brother’s Bond Bourbon cofounders — who performed brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore for eight seasons on The CW hit — are slightly busy. Wesley, for his half, is “tremendous pleased with” his function as a younger Captain James T. Kirk (the character William Shatner made well-known) in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds.

Somerhalder, in the meantime, is targeted on his environmental and animal activism along with being a woman dad. He shares daughter Bodhi, 4, with spouse Nikki Reed, and the household not too long ago moved to a California farm. Wesley joked Somerhalder is normally too busy to reply his textual content messages — together with a current invite to dinner.

When talking about holding in contact with their fellow Vampire Diaries alums, the actors stated they recurrently textual content different solid members, and Wesley even had a mini reunion not too long ago.

“We don’t have an enormous group thread, however I’m still super close to Nina [Dobrev], I’m tremendous shut with Michael Malarkey – all of them! I imply I speak to all of them on a considerably common foundation,” Wesley informed Us. “We haven’t had like an enormous reunion shortly. I did simply have dinner with at [cocreator] Kevin Williamson‘s home with [cocreator] Julie Plec and Nina.”

Somerhalder chimed in, “I’m glad I used to be invited.”

His pal stated he did, in truth, get an invitation. “You’re probably not good at responding to textual content messages,” Wesley laughed. “He’s simply too busy along with his animals and kids. Nevertheless it was nice to see everybody. Look, we’re all very busy. All of us journey lots so we don’t have, like, massive events or something like that, however we’re all nice and pleasant.”

In addition they have nice working relationships. Along with his bourbon model with Somerhalder, Wesley can also be working with Plec once more to develop a Netflix collection based mostly on the 2015 article The Confessions of a Drug-Addicted Excessive College Instructor.

Whereas The Vampire Diaries resulted in 2017 after eight seasons, the friendships made behind the scenes clearly have lengthy outlasted the present. Somerhalder stated that’s why Brother’s Bond Bourbon is exclusive.

“I say this in all humility however there’s by no means been a model, proper, that there’s 13 years of [intellectual property] constructed into this retailer and a bond that’s impenetrable so there’s by no means been a model like that. It’s by no means existed,” he defined solely to Us.

Wesley added, “And it’s one thing that, for us, we created it from the bottom up. So not like the Vampire Diaries — which is our present, however we had been employed on that present. That is our child. If Ian and I had been to have a child, that is our child.”

The pair launched their original liquor in 2021 and simply launched a brand new variation to their lineup. “The 80 proof is the bourbon that’s our flagship, and it’s carried out so nicely and we’re pleased with it,” Wesley stated. “However we have now this stunning cask energy bourbon that simply got here out which is an uncut, unfiltered, straight out of the barrel in its purest type. I used to be tremendous pleased with it. It’s a heavy hitting bourbon in a great way. It’s 115.8 proof and it’s superior.”

It sounds just like the Salvatore brothers would approve. Discover out the place to purchase each variations on the Brother’s Bond Bourbon website.

With reporting by Diana Cooper