'Vampire Diaries': Ian Somerhalder on Elena, Silas, and the cure!

The last episode of The Vampire Diaries ended with Elena (Nina Dobrev) turning off her humanity, leaving the show’s fandom wondering how will that affect her relationship with Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and the sire bond.

In a recent interview with InsideTV, Somerhalder commented:

I think the loyalty part definitely went out the window. I think the sire bond was more emotionally based, and now she doesn’t care about anything. He’s kinda screwed. She’s not havin’ it. And she doesn’t want the cure. She’s thinking You know what, I’m just so tired of being so vulnerable. This way, she walks out of the house, and she’s not worried about getting killed every five minutes. She’s now an empowered badass chick. So having said that, I think that Damon’s gonna have to abdicate that throne of being Sire Man.

Damon doesn’t want the cure either, but when asked to contemplate what would come of Damon if he were to be made to take the cure, Somerhalder revealed that:

Hypothetically, if he did, I think the second it kicked in and he realized he was human, there would be an overwhelming sense of… [sighs]. But then, ‘Well, I’ve lived quite a while, I’m gonna grow old naturally and die. I could take the Salvatore fortune and donate half of it to the Ian Somerhalder Foundation, and then just go buy a really great loft in New York and a place in the Caribbean and just chill. Maybe a vineyard in the south of France. That could be cool.’

And what about Silas? Who is this guy? Does he have a real form or does he just take on the forms of others? When asked who his choice for Silas would be, Ian had this to say:

I mean it’s The Vampire Diaries, so he’s probably young. But we could flip it a little bit. So, I’m thinking… Didn’t Regis [Philbin] retire? He could come back. He’s not crotchety, he’s awesome. I’m gonna talk to [CW president] Mark Pedowitz and [Warner Bros. TV president] Peter Roth about that.

I can’t wait to see this new empowered Elena; it will be refreshing to no longer have her as the damsel in distress. The Vampire Diaries airs Thursdays 8/7c on The CW. Excited?