“Julie Plec: She's staring up longingly and you realize this is a character that wants something, that needs something emotionally. She is being driven by a deeply personal want here, and that sort of became the rule on the show that if you have a villain, the villain has to be the hero of their own story, they have to have a deeply personal rooting interest. That's the moment where I fell in love with Katherine as a hero of her own story. I had so much empathy for her in that moment.” HeroEmpathyVillainThe Vampire DiariesTvdKatherineJulie PlecKaterina Petrova Book:I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries Source: I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries
“Kevin Williamson: I said, 'That's the show. We have to constantly keep defying the expectation of what's going to happen.' Once we'd figured out that he'd come to get Katherine and that he had a greater agenda, once I wrote that line 'That's for me to know and you to dot dot dot,' I was like, okay, that's his journey. He's the dot dot dot. That dot dot dot became so important.” Damon SalvatoreThe Vampire DiariesTvdKatherineKaterina PetrovaKevin Williamson Book:I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries Source: I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries