All you ‘Vampire Diaries’ fans hoping for some more Bonnie in the future, Kat Graham revealed she’d ‘never say never’ to a spin-off for our favorite witch!

It’s almost been two years without The Vampire Diaries on air, but it feels like forever ago we said goodbye to our favorite vampires and witches and werwolves. In an exclusive interview with HollywoodLife while promoting the launch of Crown Royal Peach, Kat Graham reflected on her TVD years and revealed she is leaving the door open when it comes to returning to the franchise. “Eight years is such a journey, and I felt like I spent more time as Bonnie in my twenties, the age that you’re really learning who you are and going through self-exploration that we all have as women in our twenties, and I spent more time as this character than myself,” she explained. “I think I did what I could do and expressed what I could personally express through this character as much as I could. I’m never gonna say never because I think the universe has a funny way of putting you exactly where you’re supposed to be with exactly who you’re supposed to be with. But, I think right now I’m having a good time getting to know myself better.”

Okay, so it may not happen tomorrow, but we’re keeping our fingers crossed! Kat continued to say that since her TVD days, she has opened herself up to roles that inspire her, and maybe even hit close to home. “I’m looking for female empowerment, because I see what’s happening with social media, I see what my fans are writing me about, I think that being a biracial woman in an industry that constantly is trying to peg you as one or the other, there’s certain things that I look for in a character,” Kat continued. “I like to play against any sort of tokenism, I want to play underdogs, but I’ve also stayed away from things that felt a little too close to home.” Kat, who is biracial and Jewish, revealed that she purposely avoided storylines that dealt with the Holocaust and slavery, in particular, but she’s now empowering herself to take on those roles. “I’m finding ways to face my fears with the roles that I’m taking and face the parts of my history and my family history that wouldn’t be necessarily something that I was maybe prepared to do in my early twenties,” she said.

Kat has several projects in the works, like the Shields Green biopic Emperor, in which she plays a house slave. The Atlanta-based actress will also be seen alongside John Travolta and Morgan Freeman in the upcoming The Poison Rose, and who can forget about Ninja Turtles?! “It’s a long list, I’m very blessed, I’m very happy,” she added, sipping her favorite Crown Royal Peach cocktail, the Royal Peach Fizz, which may or may not now be named after the actress.

Paul is binnenkort te zien in de mini-serie ‘Fabled’, deze is geregiseerd door Jennifer Morrison. De eerste trailer is inmiddels verschenen. Binnenkort in de eerste aflevering te zien op het Tribeca Film Festival, het is nog niet bekend wanneer de serie definitief uitkomt.

Danielle is te zien op de cover van het online tijdschrift Grumpy Magazine met een nieuwe fotoshoot.

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http//: Valheria Rocha (Grumpy Magazine)
http//: Valheria Rocha (Grumpy Magazine) – Behind The Scenes

Kat heeft eerder dit jaar twee nieuwe fotoshoots gehad. Voor Porter Magazine had ze met goede vriend Harold Julian een fotoshoot in Bali en eerder deze maand verscheen haar nieuwe zonnebrillen collectie samen met Foster Grant!

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http//: Harold Julian – Porter Magazine
http//: Kat Graham X Foster Grant

Nog meer babynieuws in TVD land…… Kayla en haar man Tanner hebben gisteren via instagram laten weten in verwachting te zijn van hun eerste kind! Het stel is al ruim 3,5 jaar getrouwd.

Geverifieerd
I have the loveliest news to share!! @tannernovlan_ & I have a little one on the way.

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Claire laat op haar instagramaccount weten te zijn bevallen van haar zoontje James Holt Joblon! Dit is het eerste kind voor Claire en haar man Andrew met wie ze vorig jaar in het huwelijksbootje stapte. Eerder had Claire al een miskraam waar ze openlijk over sprak.

James Holt Joblon ✨

Everything they say is true. There is no love like it ❤️

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Ik heb nieuwe foto’s toegevoegd van ‘Rosswell, New Mexico’, ik hoop komende week tijd te hebben om screencaptures toe te voegen.

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http//: Season 1: Episode Stills
http//: Season 1: Behind the Scenes

Ik heb nieuwe foto’s toegevoegd van Candice en Kayla’s fotoshoot voor Show Me Your Mumu. Daarnaast zijn er ook nieuwe foto’s verschenen van hun podcast

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http//: 2017 > Show Me Your Mumu
http//: 2018 > Show Me Your Mumu
http//: Promotionshoot (2018)
http//: Promotionshoot (2019)
http//: Behind the Scenes (2019)

Er zijn nieuwe outtakes verschenen van Candice promotieshoot van haar sieraden lijn voor Collective Journeys van vorig jaar en de nieuwe collectie. Deze maand steunt ze Girls Write Now met haar ‘Girl Power collectie’

Girls Write Now serves a culturally and educationally diverse community of mentees — 90% girls of color, 70% immigrant or first generation, 25% LGBT/non-conforming; and 90% high need. These under served girls, who have long been negatively impacted by the lack of resources and opportunities in public schools, face significant challenges to educational and professional success. They often lack the guidance and support from a consistent, caring adult, and most come to Girls Write Now with low confidence in their talents and accomplishments. Unfortunately, in our city and our country, girls of color are rarely given the guidance, care, and systemic support they need to graduate from high school and access viable college or career opportunities, perpetuating cycles of poverty and dis-empowerment.

Galerij Links:
http//: 2018 > Fallon Wilson (Collective Journeys – Collection by Candice King)
http//: 2019 > Fallon Wilson (Collective Journeys – Collection by Candice King)
http//: Collective Journey’s Armbanden & producten (2019)

De laatste foto’s van Nina staan in de galerij, eerder deze maand was ze aanwezig op SXWS Film Festival voor première van haar nieuwste film ‘Run This Town’. Tijdens het festival had ze o.a. interview met WWD. Daarnaast zijn er nu ook outtakes verschenen van de CBS Watch waarvan eerder al een achter de schermen foto van verscheen en staan de laatste foto’s van ‘Fam’ in de galerij.

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http//: March 1: Visits SiriusXM
http//: March 5: Paris Fashion Week – Louis Vuitton Womenswear Fall/Winter Fashion Show
http//: March 9: 2019 SXSW Film Festival – #TwitterHouse event
http//: March 10: 2019 SXSW Film Festival – Amazon Prime Blue Room
http//: March 10: 2019 SXSW Film Festival – ‘Run This Town’ premiere
http//: March 12: Marie Claire Change Makers Celebration
http//: Jason Kim (CBS Watch!)
http//: Jason Kim (CBS Watch!) – Behind The Scenes
http//: SXSW Film Festival – WWD Portraits by Jenna Greene
http//: SXSW Film Festival – Entertainment Weekly Portraits
http//: SXSW Film Festival – ‘Run This Town’ Portraits
http//: Season 1: Episode Stills
http//: Season 1: Screencaptures

Paul Wesley directed his first episode of television in 2014. It was a season 5 episode of The Vampire Diaries, the show in which he starred as the noble Stefan Salvatore for what would go on to be eight seasons. He’d add four more episodes to his director’s resume by the time the show ended in 2017. Since then, his television directing career has included Freeform’s hit series Shadowhunters and with this week, he adds Roswell, New Mexico and Legacies — the latest show in the Vampire Diaries universe — to the list.

EW talked to Wesley about his latest projects and his overall experience as a director.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did the experiences of directing Roswell, New Mexico and Legacies compare to each other, but also to your other directing experiences?
PAUL WESLEY: One of the things that I welcomed the most with Legacies was the humor. For years on Vampire Diaries we all wanted to flex our satirical muscles a little bit. I think it’s nice to be able to make fun of not yourself but I suppose of the genre and make it a little more of a wink to the audience. I really enjoyed that aspect of Legacies. And then Roswell is obviously a whole different tone and it’s a completely different set of actors, and it’s New Mexico. I’d never shot in New Mexico. It’s very beautiful; there’s big wide vistas and mountains. It feels almost like a western in a weird way. Those were the two big differentiations between the things that I’ve done already.

Do you have a preference between directing something where you’re familiar with the universe or something that’s completely new to you?
I think sometimes being too comfortable is not necessarily a good thing but then at the same time, I completely understand why someone like Cary Fukunaga would want to direct every episode of Maniac for Netflix. Because it’s kind of like one long movie. I think it depends on the show. Obviously if you’re doing six years of a show that’s 22 episodes a year, that’s not sustainable. The same person can’t do it. It’d be great to do something from beginning to end, and I think that is probably the most satisfying because you get to create the world and then you get to complete the world. I do think it’s difficult for directors to come in and step into someone else’s vision, but that’s part of the challenge. It’s a little more mathematical and logic-based, directing television. I mean that in a good way: you need to understand how the puzzle fits together. You need to have the tone, you need to understand what the pacing is like, and then you can add your own individual touches to it I suppose.

With Roswell, you’re coming in after a monster of an episode where the Rosa mystery was laid out in full. What are we dealing with in the aftermath?
My episode had less stunts and was more character-based, which I prefer. I’ve certainly done my fair share of stunts and green screens and all kinds of VFX but my episode of Roswell was a little more grounded, which was nice. I also think a big part of this is that it’s a season one show. That’s very important. I was very flattered when [showrunner] Carina [MacKenzie] asked me to direct because that’s a lot of responsibility. It’s a season one show, you need to find your audience, you obviously you want to impress executives and the networks and the studios and I think to give me the reins for an episode, it’s flattering. Because I’m still a fairly new director.

What has been your greatest challenge thus far as a director?
When it comes to television, the greatest challenge is time. Sometimes things aren’t working in your favor, whether it’s weather or if it’s an actor needs more time because they can’t find the moment. The biggest challenge is making sure you’re on time. You can’t go over a certain amount of hours and I’ll tell you, I’m super proud of Legacies, everyone loves it, but man there were times when I was like, “I’m not going to be able to finish my day.” I ended up finishing all my days and didn’t go over but it’s not easy when you have six, seven people in a scene, stunts, and fight sequences. Listen, I can shoot anything but in order to make it good you need some time and making something good on a short amount of time, that’s the greatest challenge.

Is there a scene or episode you’re most proud of that you’ve directed?
I think the ending of Legacies is very powerful. I really like the way it ends. As far as in general as a director, I’m not so sure. There’s a handful of scenes that I’m really proud of. There’s a few on the Vampire Diaries that I thought were probably some of my favorites. But I can’t quite recall at this point. It’s all blended in into one giant supernatural CW mix-up in my mind.