If you believe you studied The Vampire Diaries, you'll know all about doppelgängers. The creators, Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec gave us such a lot of we began seeing double. In season five of TVD, we came upon that the Petrova doppelgängers weren't the only mystical look-alikes; there were the Salvatore doppelgängers too, which meant that Elena and Stefan were like star-crossed enthusiasts (to the dismay of group Delena). But, in truth, we're going to by no means forget after we first learned that Elena was once a doppelgänger means back in season one. We after all understood why the Salvatore brothers have been so intrigued with a woman from Mystic Falls.
While it was most likely exhausting for Elena to come to terms with the fact that she had a three-hundred-year-old vampire appearance alike, it used to be simply as much of a fight for Nina Dobrev to convey Elena and Katherine to the screen... on the similar time. Out of all the things Dobrev did on the show (Dobrev in reality misses being attacked), taking part in each doppelgängers was once most likely the hardest thing, taking into consideration she had to talk to a frame double to film scenes in which Elena and Katherine gave the impression in the same body. There had been undoubtedly some times when we may just've lived with out Katherine (and a couple without Elena, too), but enjoying the doppelgängers spiced up Dobrev's time on TVD.
The Origins of Katherine Pierce
Before Katherine Pierce stormed into Mystic Falls at the finish of season one (and the doppelgänger hijinx ensued) and earlier than Elena even discovered about her, Damon used to be the big bad. When Williamson and Plec determined that, that's just about all they knew.
While enthusiasts tried to determine what his motives have been for causing Stefan's life distress and wreaking havoc on Elena and those closest to her, the creators and writers have been necessarily laughing at us. Because there wasn't anything to determine. It wasn't a deep query. During Entertainment Weekly's Binge: The Vampire Diaries, Plec explained he just wanted to be bad, that is all.
But originally of season two, that they had slightly of a state of affairs where the fans began to love Damon. They tried in point of fact laborious to keep him unhealthy, however sooner or later, they only introduced in another villain to change him. "Every time one of the villains turned nice, we brought in a new one," Williamson stated. After Katherine's initial "bad" length, we had no idea that Katherine would be the kind of villain that will torture us with a chain of cameos, like a piece of gum caught to our shoe.
When Katherine made her grand front on the end of season one, no one noticed it coming. Katherine kisses Damon (unbeknownst to him), Jenna invites her in, she tips John and cuts off his palms. It set a typical.
"That set the standard for Vampire Diaries," Plec mentioned. "That finale set the standard of: We always have to fight to get to as close to this amazing awesome twist and cliffhanger ending as we possibly can. We can never let our audience down with a finale. We put so much pressure on ourselves for eight years to make sure that we never failed a finale. There were some that were better than others, but we took our finales seriously."
By the time they wrote that twist, they hadn't even planned for Dobrev to play Katherine as well. "It didn't occur to us originally that Nina should play Elena and Katherine," Plec defined. "In the books, they called it a striking resemblance. I remember Italia Ricci, who had tested for Elena early on, comes up to us at Comic-Con after the show gets picked up she's like, 'I am putting myself in front of you to say I would like to play Katherine Pierce.'"
They realized they would used Dobrev's picture for that outdated snap of Katherine earlier in the season, so unexpectedly, Dobrev was billed as both characters and had to pull a few methods to pull it off.
Playing The Hero And The Villain
Playing Elena and Katherine presented numerous fascinating challenges for Dobrev. While the doppelgängers are simply that, doppelgängers, alike in appears to be like in each and every approach, they had been complete opposites in character. Katherine used to be an outdated vampire who used to be robust, manipulative, artful and knew what she sought after. Elena was no less strong and clever, but she was once an innocent lady with a good ethical code.
Portraying them both, especially during the same scene, was tricky. Dobrev would have to flip off every persona to play the next. "It was crazy schedule-wise shooting both of the roles, having to do Elena and Katherine, and shooting scenes with myself at times. It was a wild learning experience but really fun too because I got to play two wildly different characters," Dobrev stated all the way through EW's Binge.
Even even though it was once laborious, Dobrev mentioned she discovered a lot from tapping into Katherine after enjoying the goody-two-shoes Elena since day one. "I was a self-proclaimed good girl when I got the show, and then slowly became more evil as I embodied Katherine. I learned a lot from her," Dobrev laughed.
Technically, though, it was just a little tougher. Dobrev had to do Elena/Katherine scenes two times and incessantly recited her double scripts to stand-ins. "I remember carrying around two separate scripts — one for each character — because I had to break down what Elena was going through in that episode and what her intentions were, and then having a separate script for what Katherine wanted out of every scene and circumstance," stated Dobrev. "It was really challenging but really fun. And like Julie mentioned, exhausting at times."
It additionally had to be somewhat of a ache repeatedly going again to the makeup chair between takes to get her hair curled or straightened for each character's distinct look. Looking back, although, playing Katherine let Dobrev discover extra of her intensity as an actress. We love Elena, however she's a bit bland when compared to her vampire doppelgänger. Dobrev most probably loves Elena and Katherine equally, although.
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