The Vampire Diaries

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  • Riley voor Photobook Magazine

    Phoebe was afgelopen week bij de premiere van haar nieuwe Netflix serie “Boy Swallows Universe” in Brisbane, Australië. De serie is vanaf vandaag op de streamingsdienst te zien!

    Galerij Links:
    http//: Shan Shi (Photobook Magazine)

    Riley Voelkel, an accomplished and accredited actress, is recognized for her versatile performances across television and film. Rising to prominence with her compelling portrayal of Freya Mikaelson in the supernatural drama series “The Originals,” she showcased her acting prowess and garnered a dedicated fan base. Beyond the supernatural genre, she has highlighted her talent in diverse roles, including her recent portrayal of Renee Segna in the crime drama series “Hightown.” Hightown’s third and final season is airing now on STARZ with its finale taking place on March 8th.

    When looking at her work, there is an extensive list of credits from a wide variety of roles. If you could take readers back, what started your initial interest in acting?
    My story is a little different than most actors. Growing up I had no idea I would become an actor. I was heavily involved in school and sports but was never in theatre (something I now hope to experience someday). At 18 years old, a month away from going to college to study structural engineering and play softball, I was given the opportunity to move to LA and work as a model. I decided to take the risk and see how things went for one year and then decide if I wanted to go back to school or not. Through my modeling agency I booked a lot of commercials that year and they asked me if I ever thought about acting. I decided to take a class and the day of my first class I fell in love with it. I felt so much fulfillment from performing and creating, and I knew this was what I wanted to do. That’s how it all started.

    Whether it be movie, show, or live theatre, I’m curious what would be your absolute dream roles to play?
    I’d love to experience a role in theatre one day. I think it’s so different from film and television, and I imagine that it would be an amazing experience. I’ve always wanted to play a badass woman in an action film. I grew up playing sports so I crave the challenge of stunt work and think it would be so fun! Also, I’ve always been drawn to playing a character from another era like the 60s or 70s who is involved the music industry. “Almost Famous” is one of my favorite films and captures an amazing time in music and I’d love to be a part of something like that.

    One of your biggest roles thus far is that of Freya on The CW’s hit series “The Originals and Legacies”. Looking back, what aspects did you enjoy most about playing Freya?
    Playing Freya Mikaelson was the longest I’ve played one character in a show, and I loved experiencing building a character over the course of many seasons. It allows so much more character exploration when you have multiple seasons to tell a story. Also, the show’s fanbase is incredible. They are such loyal, amazing fans, and I’ll be forever grateful to them for all their love and support. The fans often tell us that the show and the characters brought a lot of comfort to them during difficult times and that has meant so much to me. They have definitely been a highlight of playing Freya. The magic was fun too. (meer…)

  • Riley te gast bij The Neil Haley Show

  • Sara geinterviewd over ‘The Burning Season’

  • Cast te gast bij The Blood Legacy conventie

    Enkele castleden waren 2 weken geleden in Parijs voor de The Blood Legacy convention.


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  • Joseph te zien in seizoen 2 van Halo


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  • Riley te gast bij PIX11 News

  • Nate Buzolic slams Palestinian ‘lies and propaganda’

  • Nina op de cover van Numero Netherlands

    Nina siert de cover van de januari 2024 editie van de Numero Netherlands.

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    http//: Cameron Postforoosh (Numero Netherlands)

    Actress, writer and producer Nina Dobrev has established herself as one of the fastest rising leading ladies in Hollywood, amassing an impressive resume of diverse and memorable TV and film roles. Next up, Nina will seen in the action thriller ‘The Bricklayer’, which will be released on 5th January.

    Nina, you’ll be starring in the upcoming action thriller ‘The Bricklayer’, coming out in just a few days. What can you tease about the film, its story and your character?
    The film is a very high-paced, action packed sort of thriller. I just watched it actually for the first time and Renny Harlin is really good at action movies. It’s what he does best and he really knows how to shoot every angle to make it as suspenseful and exciting as possible. This story is in a way like a classic, we’ve seen it before. It’s about a man who’s been through life and is very jaded. My character, who’s earlier on in her journey in life and in her career, is excited and hopeful and naive. And so the two characters together, watching that dynamic was really fun for me to see and to experience. What drew me to the project was my character’s arc from the beginning because she really changes a lot. She starts off as one person and at the end of the movie is a different kind of person. I just felt there’s a lot of mystery suspense, there’s a lot of trickery and secret. It’s a very international film and that was also another thing that was really exciting. We were shooting in Greece and in Europe and that was my first time filming a movie in Europe, so it was really cool.
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  • Nina promoot ‘The Bricklayer’

    Nina is bezig om haar nieuwe film ‘The Bricklayer’ te promoten. Ze was ze o.a. ook te gast bij The Talk.


  • Phoebe Tonkin’s universe

    Phoebe siert de cover van de januari 2024 editie van de Australische editie van Harper’s Bazaar ter promotie van haar nieuwe Netflix serie ‘Boy Swallows Universe’.

    Galerij Links:
    http//: Darren McDonald (Harper’s Bazaar Australia)

    Phoebe Tonkin spent her early years in the fantasy-television genre. Now, at 34, she’s ready for her close-up as a dramatic actor via grittier roles, none more so than Frankie Bell in ‘Boy Swallows Universe.’

    SOMETIME OVER THE COURSE of last summer, Phoebe Tonkin reinvented herself. herself. She was in Brisbane shooting Boy Swallows Universe, the new Netflix limited-series adaptation of Australian journalist Trent Dalton’s best-selling debut novel. It’s a coming-of-age story loosely based on his real-life experiences growing up in ’80s Brisbane, embedded in an underworld of heroin dealers and drug lords and their terrifying, scar-faced enforcers. Tonkin had been cast in the role of Frankie Bell.

    Pre-shoot, Tonkin had already devoured films about drug users, such as The Basketball Diaries, Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream, along with letters written by addicts to their families. But then, after every day of shooting on Boy Swallows Universe, she spent the nights trying to go deeper and deeper under Frankie’s skin, immersing herself in books (and podcasts) about trauma, addiction, sobriety and healing — from authors such as Bessel van der Kolk, Brené Brown and Gabor Maté.

    “It was truly the best six months of my life — the first time in my career that I could really relax on a longer shoot. I’d also just finished another film, so I was kind of running on steam,” reflects Tonkin via Zoom from “my childhood bedroom in my childhood home” in Mosman, a suburb on Sydney’s affluent Lower North Shore. It’s just days after the end of the protracted SAG-AFTRA strike and Tonkin is finally able to talk about a role that could be, if not career-defining, then at the very least the switch to make the film industry sit up and take notice of her.

    “It was probably more abstract research than I’ve ever done,” she continues. “It just felt so important to me to do this right and to honour these characters. I was doing all this research about people who’d faced adversity and overcome hardships. It was almost like a six-month vacation for my mind, because I would go to work and then, at night, I was nourishing myself with positivity from the podcasts and books that were so important to me for shaping the character of Frankie. But then [I] took on all those messages subliminally. I kind of came out of it [as] this really evolved version of myself.”

    The role shows the depth of Tonkin’s range as a dramatic actor, arguably for the first time in her 18-year career, the first 12 of which were dominated by back-to-back roles in the teen-skewed fantasy-TV genre, variously channelling her inner mermaid, witch, vampire and werewolf.
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  • Ian en Paul op de cover van Dujour

    Ian en Paul staan op de cover van Dujour Magazine met een nieuwe fotoshoot door fotograaf Guy Aroch.

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    http//: Guy Aroch (DuJour)
    http//: November 8: DuJour Media And Jason Binn Celebrate DuJour’s Cover Stars Ian Somerhalder & Paul Wesley

    Bond of Brothers
    Co-stars and friends Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley come together to launch new liquor brand Brother’s Bond

    Hollywood is not necessarily a town known for everlasting friendships.

    Still, somehow, the actors Ian Somerhalder, 44, and Paul Wesley, 41, made it through eight seasons of bloodsucking on The Vampire Diaries and they still want to hang out every day. What’s more, they now work even longer hours every week together.

    “We hooked up when we got fitted for our fangs,” says Somerhalder of a pre-production meeting in March 2009 for the CW series, which ended in 2017. “These were perfectly fitted acrylic fangs that didn’t come off easily.”

    “You had to be careful in a scene,” says Wesley. “You were supposed to just pretend that you were biting people.”

    “If you connected, it was gnarly,” adds Somerhalder (who’s married to another on-screen vampire, Nikki Reed).

    Somerhalder knew the show was going to be a hit thanks to the Twilight craze sweeping the globe. The series lasted so long that the fangs eventually became visual effects, rather than physical props.

    But in the beginning, at the fitting, Wesley wasn’t so sure.
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  • Nate is gesprek over het conflict tussen Israel en de Gazastrook

    Met het nieuwe opgewaaide conclift en oorlog in Israel met de gazastrook heeft Nate met enkele media gesproken over zijn visie hierop. Iets wat hij afgelopen jaren al vaker gedaan heeft.


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  • Ian en Paul te gast bij Comic-Con Wales

  • Kat te gast bij de Kelly Clarkson Show

    Galerij Links:
    http//: November 3: The Kelly Clarkson Show

  • Candice te gast bij Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum