When vampire brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore were not drinking blood they were drinking bourbon. But according to The Vampire Diaries stars Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley their characters were not actually drinking alcohol on set.
Damon Ian Somerhalder and Stefan Paul Wesley were over 100 years old. And in their long lives as vampires they acquired great wealth including a sprawling estate exotic cars and a gorgeous wardrobe.
But rather than sip champagne or wine the brothers always chose to drink bourbon. It was the one thing they bonded over. And it was the go to drink they shared when having their most meaningful conversations. In The Vampire Diaries Season 7 Episode 4 Damon reveals that he had once saved a bottle of wine to open with his first love Katherine Nina Dobrev. But when she betrayed him he decided to switch to bourbon. EventuallyI convinced myself that no sip of that wine could ever taste as good as I dreamt it would Damon recalled. And that is the story of why I drink bourbon.
Damon and Stefan drank a lot of bourbon in The Vampire Diaries. But as Somerhalder and Wesley recalled to EW what they were really drinking was iced tea. The actors noted that they had to drink lots of tea while filming. But as it turns out it was not as harmless as they first thought it would be.
We were obviously drinking the iced tea quite often and when you are on set you are doing take after take after take after take and you take a sip in a scene well for continuity you have to do it essentially from every angle Wesley said. So the first season I could not sleep he continued. I was jittery I thought I was nervous. Turns out I was just consuming so much caffeine. So season 2 we switched it out to decaffeinated iced tea.
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