Star Trek's Paul Wesley Details "Bizarre" Run-In With William Shatner
Would Paul Wesley star successful a potential reboot of The Vampire Diaries? According to him, fangs but nary fangs.
The actor, who roseate to fame playing the vampire Stefan Salvatore successful the CW play bid alongside Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder, told InStyle magazine that that would beryllium a "hard pass" for him.
"I would ne'er bash different vampire anything, period," Wesley said, "let unsocial Vampire Diaries."
The Vampire Diaries premiered successful 2009 and ended successful 2017 aft 8 seasons. The bid spurred the spinoff The Originals, which aboriginal had its ain spinoff show, Legacies. No plans for a reboot of the franchise person been announced.
"I don't truly miss thing astir playing him, and I don't mean that successful a [negative way]," Wesley, 40, said in his InStyle interview, posted July 6. "Eight years is simply a agelong time, and I'm truthful gladsome to enactment that to rest. Eight seasons."
He continued, "But I loved however dynamic helium was. Because the amusement ran for specified a agelong time, successful bid for it to not go monotonous, each season, helium benignant of had a antithetic arc. At 1 constituent helium was axenic evil, and helium started retired arsenic the bully feline and past helium ended arsenic the bully guy. But I liked the situation of trying to support the quality fresh."
Wesley is presently starring on Paramount+ bid Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a spinoff of the franchise's prequel bid Star Trek: Discovery. He plays a young Captain James T. Kirk, a relation made celebrated by William Shatner. But Wesley inactive draws astir attraction owed to his relation on The Vampire Diaries.
"When I get recognized, it's due to the fact that of Stefan," Wesley told InStyle. "It's the biggest happening I've ever done, arsenic acold arsenic popularity."
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Despite leaving The Vampire Diaries in the dust, Wesley occasionally attends formed reunions astatine instrumentality conventions and remains friends with Dobrev and Somerhalder, with whom helium shares the bourbon marque Brother's Bond.
The second actor, who played Stefan's brother Damon Salvatore connected the show, offered his sentiment connected the thought of a reboot successful 2021.
"What would happen? Damon has like, grey hairsbreadth and they person canes, like, 'Oh, I gotta provender the baby.'" Somerhalder told Andy Cohen on Sirius XM's Radio Andy. "Listen, it ran a large people and present it's inactive living. That's what truthful amazing."
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