Check out Fancast‘s interview with Katerine Graham, aka The Vampire Diaries’ Bonnie!
When Bonnie was haunted by Emily, how did you do all of those special effects?
We have a great stunts department. We have a great special effects crew. Whether it comes to fire or the floating feather trick, there’s such an intricate science behind all of those great scenes that you see. For the Emily stuff, we definitely had a safety meeting. When the amulet got thrown up there was somebody standing above me hidden by a tree with one of those specks of fire that looks like it’s rings of fire. They lit that pentagram around me. A lot of the stuff was actually done [live]. It wasn’t [put together] in post.
In the 19th century flashbacks, the witches and the vampires were working together. Now they are enemies. What caused the rift?
There’s definitely something that happened. A lot of the time it’s mostly vampires asking witches’ assistance, not the other way around. It’s having to offer a helping hand to protect someone. So certain things are being asked of witches that are not being asked of vampires. Something happened to make them be on bad terms. They obviously don’t trust each other.
Who are your closest friends in the cast?
I’m close with all the girls. From the beginning of the show, when we started shooting, we just bonded. I saw Kayla [Ewell, Vicki] last night. She’s one of my good friends. Nina [Dobrov, Elena] and I obviously have the most scenes together so we spend the most time together because but we’re really close. She’s great.
Have you had any funny bloopers?
There’s one that I can’t share because it hasn’t aired yet but it involves Jasmine Guy. Call me after it airs and I’ll tell you how funny it was. Any time Elena and I have to run somewhere out of fear we end up snickering. When Damon is in his vampire attire and hair and make up, Ian Somerhalder always pranks everyone.
