When you spend eight years working 16 hour days together on the set of a television show three to four months out of the year you had better enjoy the people you work with.
That certainly true of Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley, a pair of actors who became household names thanks to The Vampire Diaries one of the most popular shows in The CWs history. The pair played brothers on the show who like many real life siblings, have a love hate relationship while trying to battle their internal demons and mortal enemies due to both of them being vampires. Sibling rivalries among vampires become exacerbated when you consider the brothers were more than 150 years old in fictional Mystic Falls Virginia.
So yeah they will be some antagonism there that eventually settled into an uneasy alliance. When Elena Gilbert threw wrenches into the brothers plans everything changed and their vampiric bloodlust came to the forefront. Fortunately Somerhalder and Wesley both recognized they had a good thing on their hands. Even though getting into vampire makeup including painful contact lenses was not pleasant and not everyone on the cast had good memories of the show the Brothers Salvatore fostered a friendship off screen that may well last a lifetime. In a recent interview with Us Weekly Somerhalder revealed that he saved Wesleys number under Stefan in his phone. The bond shared between the two on the set has translated into happy times now even though the show stopped producing new episodes five years ago.
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