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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Sebastian Stan Explains Why He Once Turned Down the Lead Role in Vampire Diaries · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: For anybody who loved the series Vampire Diaries, actor Paul
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  Speaker 2: Wesley is its main bloodsucker, Stefan Salvatore, but it was
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  Speaker 2: this close to being somebody else's in the lead role.
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  Speaker 2: It was Sebastian Stan who almost got it.
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  Speaker 3: Who just revealed that he actually turned down the role.
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  Speaker 3: And it wasn't because his career was exactly red hot
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  Speaker 3: at the time. The year before, in 2008, he'd gotten
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  Speaker 3: a big break with a gig on the NBC drama Kings,
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  Speaker 3: but it was not a hit and got canceled after
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  Speaker 3: only a single season.
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  Speaker 2: It had a negative impact on Sebastian, who felt burnt
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  Speaker 2: out from Kings failing. And for whatever reason, he was
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  Speaker 2: convinced Vampire Diaries would be a dud as well.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he knew that the show The Covenant was already
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  Speaker 3: out and he assumed that Vampire Diaries was too similar
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  Speaker 3: and would never find its audience. Not so much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, to the tune of eight very successful seasons. But
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  Speaker 2: Sebastian didn't let it make him feel too dejected. He
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  Speaker 2: tells the happy, sad, confused podcast he doesn't look back and.
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  Speaker 3: Go, what if? Not only that, he thinks that he
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  Speaker 3: wasn't ready for that level of exposure at that age
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  Speaker 3: and time of his life. So it was a blessing
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  Speaker 3: in disguise. And look where he is now.
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  Speaker 2: In a place where Sebastian says he wouldn't change a thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.