Nina Dobrev's Seventeen Photo Shoot and Behind the Scenes Video

Nina Dobrev's Seventeen Photo Shoot and Behind the Scenes Video

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• March 03, 2010
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• By: Rene

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The lovely Nina Dobrev is covering Seventeen Magazine's April 2010 issue. Nina chats about Elena's strength and the first time she met Paul!
Check out some of the interview below and a behind the scenes vid of her cover shoot.

Even though Elena's going through all this stuff, has to keep all these secrets, and has all these responsibilities, she's just learned to cope and figure things out and deal with a lot that most people don't at a young age. She has to take care of her brother with a drug problem and be a parental figure in the household, her boyfriend's a vampire, and her best friend's a witch! A lot of stuff is going on, everyone's trying to kill her all the time, so she's very strong, she always rises to the occasion, and she always fights back. I think that she is a very strong woman, and she can take on anything and everything that comes her way.

The first time Paul [Wesley] and I met, I met nine other guys as well because I had already been cast and they were deciding for the Stefan role. I had to read with like 30 studio executives, and they were just kind of watching and analyzing because that was the whole point of the test...they wanted to see who had the best chemistry. And everyone was great, but Paul had this old soul, like a history that you could feel...he seemed like he'd been around longer, and knew more, and he had a grasp for the character different from anyone else. - Seventeen.com