Nina and her cast won several awards for The Vampire Diaries, Nina herself winning three! Congrats Nina!

BEST SHOCKER
Winner: Katherine/Elena Switch, The Vampire Diaries (35.9%)
BEST BITCH
Winner: Katherine, The Vampire Diaries (40.6%)
BEST NEW SHOW
Winner: The Vampire Diaries (49.9%)
BREAKOUT STAR, FEMALE
Winner: Nina Dobrev, The Vampire Diaries (34.0%)

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Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie and The Patty Duke Show all did it way back in the ’60s, and next season on The Vampire Diaries, Nina Dobrev’s Elena will make her onscreen debut on the same screen with Nina Dobrev’s Katherine, who made her dramatic return to Mystic Falls posing as Elena in May’s season finale.

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“I can’t talk much about it yet,” says executive producer Julie Plec, “but one of the big surprises is that Katherine comes face to face with Elena.”

How does Nina feel about playing both Elena and her 19th century doppelgänger in the same scenes? “I will have to ask for a second pay check,” kids the 21-year-old, who as a child marveled over Lindsay Lohan’s dual performance in The Parent Trap. While special effects have advanced a thousandfold since Elizabeth Montgomery’s Samantha/Serena face-offs on Bewitched, Nina is still worried about emoting opposite a stand-in tennis ball when the series resumes production in July. “It will be difficult because a lot of acting is reacting to the other person, but it’ll be fun to step out of my comfort zone.”

Nina’s not the only one who’ll be given a tough acting assignment. Having the look-alike ladies in the same town will also force Ian Somerhalder to play two different sides of Damon. “It’s going to be an emotional rollercoaster for me,” Ian predicts. “Damon, with Katherine, is this youthful wide-eyed fun guy who is so intrigued by her — so different from the maniacal, more mature Damon you see with Elena.”

Source: Fox News

Nina Dobrev has admitted that she is relieved she does not have to star in nude scenes in The Vampire Diaries.

The actress, who plays Elena, explained that she would feel uncomfortable if she appeared in the more explicit series True Blood.

According to The Mirror, Dobrev said: “I’m very content with not being nude on national television. I enjoy True Blood myself and I watch the show, but I’m happy that bra and underwear is as stripped down as I can get for the show.”

Dobrev also dismissed the idea of a competition between The Vampire Diaries, True Blood and Twilight.

“I don’t think that we’re necessarily competitors,” she explained. “We’re all kind of in the same genre – there are vampires within all the series – but they are all very different. It’s like apples and oranges. True Blood is racier and a little bit older, Twilight is on the big screen, whereas we are in that in-between zone. We’re all very supportive of each other.”

source: Digital Spy

I have to be honest – the teenage vampire romance genre doesn’t always do a lot for me. Nothing against it of course. I think it’s cool that so many people are excited about dark fantasy and inspired to pick up books within the genre. But hey, you like peanut butter and jelly and I like grilled cheese, you know? Still, if there’s any show that has my attention these days, it’s The Vampire Diaries. The reason? Her name’s Nina Dobrev, the stunningly beautiful actress who plays Elena Gilbert, the show’s young heroine. A few weeks back, as she was winding up her work on The Vampire Diaries‘ first season, I had the opportunity to speak with Dobrev about her sudden success, about the experience of playing two distinct characters on one show, and about where she’d like to see Elena go in the second season. Hit the jump for our full conversation.

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