Paul didn’t just draw from his own experience; he also did his research. “The minute I was cast, I plowed through all the books.” And he made a point of not reading or watching Twilight. “I didn’t want to be influenced by it at all,” he says. But the other bloodsuckers were hard to avoid: New Moon and The Vampire Diaries were both being shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, last April. “The cast was staying at our hotel–we saw them everywhere and hung out all the time. They’re actually really nice people.” And while critics have been quick to call the show a Twilight spin-off (though, for the record, Smith’s books were written before Stephenie Meyer’s), Paul, who recently relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, to continue filming, disagrees: “They have vampires and high school romance in common, but that’s about it.”
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