Ian Somerhalder, probably most famous for playing Boone on the first season of LOST, currently is featured in The Vampire Diaries. Christina Radish from IESB asked him why he thinks vampires seem to be in these days.
“Q: What is it about vampires, in particular? Why are vampires so hot right now?
Ian: That I don’t know. A very big element of it is that Twilight did so well at the box office. But, and this is just completely subjective conjecture, in the last five years, the movie industry, especially with strikes and all these things, has started to fall off the map. It’s these big, huge movies, like Iron Man and Batman, that are big comic book series films, that are making these studios all this cash, and the other movies have just fallen to the wayside, which is kind of crazy. The mythology behind vampires was always there, and it’s never really gone away, but now you have this market for it. They’re fun. There’s an element of power. They’re sexy, they’re dangerous, they’re beautiful and there is something that draws you to them. I don’t know who can explain it, but it’s here, and it’s here for awhile. There is something about the non-human of it all, which allows these characters to do things that we can’t do, and there’s a lot of escapism in that.”
Ian mentions Twilight several other times in the interview. Check it out on IESB.
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