Ian Somerhalderis back in the world of fangs, blood, and gore.
Thats a legitimate question, he says with a nod.
Its such a different scope.
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I would like to think I learned a good bit after eight years of television in this genre.
I love this genre.
It has been very good to me.
But also, its so unique.
Theres so much it’s possible for you to do with it.
And theres a lot of cross-genre here.
Were leaning into aspects of the horror genre, which they work very well together.
We knew we needed more time.
And the end result, according to Somerhalder, is the opposite ofThe Vampire Diariessex symbols.
These creatures are fing scary, he says with a smirk.
These are murderous creatures.
None of them want to be.
So that grounded scary component of them, theres nothing romantic about them.
And were very proud of that.
If you imagine them literally ripping into you, oh my god, its powerful.
And to think that there could be hundreds of millions of these things running around, its really scary.
Somerhalder also likensV Wars vampiric virus to a kind of cancer.
When this attacks your DNA, different vampires from different parts of the world turn differently, he says.
They have different feeding habits, they have different looks, different feeding methods, all of its different.
As Jonathan says, its not a supernatural story.
Which by the way is whats happening in the scientific community as we as we speak, Somerhalder says.
This could potentially be really fking bad.
Were up against a lot.
For us,V Warsis really about the what if.
What happens when theres so many vampires that commercial airlines cant function anymore?
What happens when these people need legal representation or congressional representation, parliamentary representation?
These are big tentpole ideas that society will literally have to adapt to.
Its not apocalyptic; its grounded in science.
OnThe Vampire Diaries,we had like $25 million of standing sets, he says.
But its not fiscally responsible when you have all these sets and stuff.
Here, were nimble.
We can be all over the world and bring in these amazing new characters.
But the most important goal Somerhalder set for the first season of the Netflix adaptation?
Basically not to f up, he says with a laugh.
V Warsbegins streaming Dec. 5 on Netflix.
