Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley played vamp-brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore on The Vampire Diaries. While their bloodlust was captured onscreen, the pair had a taste for something far different behind the scenes: bourbon. Bourbon became a way that the actors could bond off-set. "So we could tolerate each other off-screen," Wesley joked in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
"It became this thing we did on-screen and then off," the actor added. "We were shooting in the South, and I never really appreciated bourbon until I was living in Atlanta."
"We bonded on-screen with bourbon and bonded off-screen with bourbon. We always joke that the only way we could tolerate each other was to consume tremendous amounts of bourbon. And there's some truth to that because you spend 11 years with someone—and we have this company together; it's like a marriage.
It's our longest relationship! After Vampire Diaries ended, we had more time to put together a team of experts and were able to properly develop Brother's Bond.
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