But The Vampire Diaries’ Damon Salvatore won’t be arriving alone. We’ll all be watching for clues whether that innocent kiss in the season finale was just a little bit guilty as Elena Gilbert/Katherine Pierce AKA NINA DOBREV (and fellow Canuck!) will be presenting at the MMVAs too!

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Season three opens the door to learn more about Klaus and The Original Family as his motives for wanting Stefan on his side are finally revealed. As Stefan sinks deeper into the dark side, Damon and Elena struggle with the guilt of their growing bond even as they work together to bring Stefan back from the edge. The ghosts from Jeremy’s past have a powerful message they’re trying to deliver to him, not to mention the impact they’re having on his relationship with Bonnie. And as Caroline and Tyler grow closer, a war erupts between their families. The series stars Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert, Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore, Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore, Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert, Kat Graham as Bonnie Bennett, Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes, Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan, Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood, Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman and Joseph Morgan as Klaus. Based on the series of books by L. J. Smith, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES is from Bonanza Productions Inc., Outerbanks Entertainment and Alloy Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios with executive producers Kevin Williamson (“Scream,” “Dawson’s Creek”), Julie Plec (“Kyle XY,” “Wasteland”), Leslie Morgenstein (“Gossip Girl,” “Private”) and Bob Levy (“Gossip Girl,” “Privileged”).

Vampire Diaries star Paul Wesley has joined Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria in The Baytown Disco, from a script that appeared on the 2009 Black List of hot unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Wesley, who plays Stefan Salvatore on Diaries, will play a Louisiana federal agent in the film.
Wesley will play “Anthony Reese, a federal agent who comes into a small Southern town to investigate the Oodies — three redneck brothers who get more than they bargained for after agreeing to help a woman get her son back from his seemingly abusive father.” [The Wrap]

Thornton was nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award in 1997 for Sling Blade and Longoria’s best known for her stint on Desperate Housewives. Serinda Swan, Clayne Crawford, Thomas Sangster and Meagan Good will also appear in the film.

The Baytown Disco has been a favorite in-development project in the blogosphere, but it sounds a little Joe Dirt-ish to us… and can a pretty boy from the kitchy teen drama The Vampire Diaries handle going up against a heavy-hitter like Billy Bob Thornton?

Zap2it: Last week’s episode was so sad! I cried at home. Was it rough to say goodbye to Sara after you guys wrapped?
Graham: I was a mess. I cried! I just didn’t get it. I don’t like those kinds of changes. In this life you already have so many changes, but I don’t want to change my friends. I don’t want to not see them. I already barely see my friends as it is because I work so much, so losing Sara was difficult. I know there are going to be great things for her next, and she’s going to do amazing things as she spread her wings. It was very difficult.

In the midst of all the sadness, Bonnie had a really kick-ass moment when she came out of the darkness and spelled Klaus.
We were really excited when we shot it! We did it literally in two takes, and everything was like ‘Whoa! That’s awesome!’ and I was like ‘Really? It was okay?’ Everyone was really happy with it. I think that’s how the audience was feeling, like, ‘I just want to go in there, and take him down!’ and the fact that Bonnie did that gave them the chance to feel like they were taking charge that way, too.

How do you manage to memorize all the spells?
Those things are so hard to memorize! You have no idea. I had to learn these three different Latin chants in a day. I thought I was going to explode. Actually, people are calling it Latin, but it’s not Latin. I call it Plecan. It’s a Julie Plec made-up language. So, it’s technically called Plecan. She’ll take Latin words and things that kind of are like the real words, and she’ll like… remix it. I have to memorize a lot of Plecan.

We saw in the episode preview (above) that Emily Bennett is going to return in this episode. How are she and Bonnie going to factor into the finale?
Emily comes when she needs to come. That’s all I can say. With Bonnie, I can definitely say that because it’s the last episode and Damon’s been bitten by the werewolf, what everyone is trying to do is figure out if there is a cure and how to get it, and how to move forward to save him — if that’s even possible.

Where do Bonnie and Damon stand right now? He was more than willing to sacrifice her life in the last episode.
I don’t think Bonnie would necessarily throw her arms around him and protect him over someone else, either, you know what I mean? They’re cool. They’re not best buddies, and they don’t have a romantic interest. I think they’re just trying to do what they’ve got to do, and if they have to work together, they deal with it. They’re not on horrible terms, but Bonnie isn’t really a forgetful person, from what I know.

Are we going to see any development in Jeremy and Bonnie’s relationship?
You will definitely continue to see the relationship evolve, I can say that much.

You guys are a go for Season 3,and I know that a lot of your fans on Twitter are hoping to see more of Bonnie’s life this season – her family, and her house.
I’m with them on that! I listen to them, and I’m like, ‘Wow, they really want to see it!’ but I can’t even tell them anything because I don’t know what’s coming. I would like to see that, a mother or a father at least. It’s time, but there’s been so much going on and so many other characters to develop. It’s very much an ensemble cast, and there’s a lot going on and everyone has their own storylines. It’s totally understandable that all the characters haven’t had a full development. It takes a lot of time.

I just saw your music video for “I Want It All.” We spoke before about your time working with the tiger, but now that I’ve seen it all come together, it’s a really incredible clip.
Thank you! We shot it on a reserve in San Bernardino. It was such an amazing experience, but it was definitely the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done. I have a joke with my stylist Brett that we’ve never had a big shoot together – he’s like “We’ve only had two!” and I said, “Yeah, but every time we work together it’s been life-threatening!” The tiger was very sweet, but dealing with the fire – that was a big fire on my head! The hat literally shoots fire. I’m always playing with fire. If you ever see me in a circle of fire or with fire on my hands, that’s not special effects, you know! That’s literally my hands on fire. I’m getting used to it. I’m not as scared as I used to be. Everyone’s at the point where they’re like “Oh, fire? Kat will be fine!”

What kind of fan response have you seen?
Everyone really loves it and MTV has been really supportive. The music has been a slow boil. We started with the Will.I.Am stuff, and then I pushed “Sassy” as kind of a buzz single, and now we’ve got this setup single. Everything has been really taking its time, and I don’t mind that, but “I Want It All” is my first actual budget video. Everything else has just been me and my friends kind of winging it, so I’m really happy with the way it turned out. I wanted people to see it. It’s strong! It’s a J.R. Rodham produced single, and I’m just so proud of it. It’s been a long time coming.

I know you’re working on finishing the album this summer. What can we expect from the final product?
I am. I recorded three songs this past weekend. We’re kind of wrapping up the album and really finding the sound. A lot of it was very similar to the progression of Bonnie. It’s about finding your strength and becoming independent and self-sacrifice and being who you want to be without apologies. It’s been really interesting how the parallels between Bonnie and I surfaced.

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I wasn’t surprised — or all that angry even — that Elijah made the decision to save Klaus to get to his family.
DANIEL GILLIES: Neither was I. It’s funny, we’ve been talking about him being so noble all the time. When people said he’s a man of his word, he’s honorable, I was sort of conflicted. There was a few things that he’s done that I don’t think were very honorable, actually, that fans overlook. Like, when he was almost ruthlessly pursuing Damon and Rose in the beginning, and I picked up those coins out of the busker’s guitar case and threw them at the window — I thought that was the opposite of nobility to include all those innocent people in his mayhem. A lot of the fans, that’s their favorite shot of me, and that’s actually the least noble thing that’s done on the show. His agenda is thousands of years old, so the fact that he turned and destroyed the plans of Stefan and Bonnie doesn’t surprise me at all. Other cast members came up to me and said, “Oh, how do you feel about that? Oh, man, it’s terrible, right?” Like it’s a bad thing. I personally love characters when they f— up. It’s exciting to me. When someone like Elijah — who almost seems robotic at times in his execution, the economy of his motion — does something like that, you actually see his humanity. I love the mistakes that people make. In a sense, for me at least, it brings me closer to them.

My question is this: If Klaus hunted down the rest of Elijah’s family, was he searching for Elijah all these years? What’s your take on that?
I think Elijah was difficult. I think that Elijah was elusive, extremely intelligent. [Laughs] Much more intelligent than I. I think also there was probably a part of Klaus that couldn’t quite bring himself to pursue Elijah with real vengeance. I think that there was a part of them that was extremely close for centuries, and I think that on whatever level, he probably resisted hunting Elijah as he did the rest of the family. But I also think that Elijah is probably extraordinarily good at eluding him.

Fans have been talking about the chemistry between Elijah and Elena. Do you think that’s just because he sees in her what he saw in Katherine or the person Katherine reminded him of? Or is it something more than that?
I think that he sees Katherine, but I think that it’s even deeper. I think Elena is so much more heroic than Katherine because she’s got so much more to lose. That’s not to say that Katerina didn’t have a lot to lose back in the day, but I think that Elena represents even more heroism. I think Elena reminds Elijah of everything he liked about being human and continues to like about being human.

Do you think we’ve seen him soften through his run?
We have to an extent. It’s an interesting issue. A good and a bad thing as an actor is sometimes you become good as exposition, and I think that I was relatively good and am relatively good at exposition. So therefore, necessarily, I became a sort of device for opening up the past. Which meant that I kinda couldn’t be this cold guy on the outskirts saying four words an episode and murdering five people. I couldn’t be this cowboy for as long as I wanted. It wouldn’t have worked. I basically had to open the door into the past, and so they had to create in me a degree of diplomacy/approachability.

When we chatted in January, we had a great conversation about who you’d love to see play Klaus. Any suggestions you’d like to share for members of Elijah’s family?
Oh, man. We can dig up some of those old names. I loved that you printed that…. I must say that Joseph Morgan [who was ultimately cast as Klaus] wasn’t impressed when he came to set. He gave me a punch on the arm and was like, “Jonathan Rhys Meyers?! Ian McShane?!”

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The CW drama Vampire Diaries has been building all season to the introduction of the villain Klaus, the original vampire. Joseph Morgan has now been signed to play him. Morgan, who’ll next be seen in the Henry Cavill-starrer Immortals, played supporting roles in the Peter Weir-directed Master and Commander, and Oliver Stone’s Alexander. He plays the title character in ABC’s upcoming miniseries Ben Hur. He was set for the show after more than 100 actors read for the role all over the world. Morgan’s deal was made by WME, Richard Koenigsberg Management and London-based Curtis Brown Group.

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So it’s like the Andie that’s with him knows what he is and what’s going in and has been compelled not to be afraid of it or disclose it, but the real Andie inside can’t process it? “Exactly,” she says. “There was a moment the morning after the bathtub scene, in last week’s episode, when she was walking out and putting her scarf on, and she looked in the mirror for a second. I purposely paused because it was almost like the Andie that’s hidden and can’t come out and the one that’s being hypnotized through the compulsion see each other for a split second. Right now she feels like a drone. She’s just doing whatever she’s told, and she doesn’t ask any questions, and there’s no fear, nothing. It depends on where the writers go with it. But I want more moments where she comes to from that sleep for a second before he puts her back under again. Eventually, what does that lead to? It creates an interesting struggle for Andie, and the awareness then makes her able to then utilize the characters of a reporter and dig up some information. That’s what I would like to see.”

Read more of the interview over at Inside TV

While Nina got snubbed for favorite actress, The Vampire Diaries was not left out entirely in the cold. It got a nom for favorite tv drama and favorite sci-fi/fantasy show, while Ian picked up a nomination for favorite tv drama actor. Congratulations Ian and the entire cast of the show!