“Despite Being The only Actor Playing Multiple Characters Dringing the Early Seasons of the Vampire Diaries, Nina Dobrev Has Revealed that She Was Paid Less Than Her Fellow Male Co. The Actress Open Up About the Behind-The-Scenes Equal Pay Battle in Entertainment Weekly Editor Samantha Highfill’s New Book, I Was Feeling Epic:”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Actress Open Up About the Behind-The-Scenes Equal Pay Battle in Entertainment Weekly Editor Samantha Highfill’s New Book, I was feather epic: an oral history of the Vampire Diaries. Dobrev not only Played Elena Gilbert in the Hit Cw Series, But Also Her Character’s Evil Doppelgänger, Katherine Pierce, Starting in the Season One Finale.
“Candice [King]Kat [Graham]and i were the Three Lowest-Paid Series Regulars in the First Two Seasons WHICH DOBLED MY Workload. I have to be on set for double of the Amount of Time, I have to Memorize Double the Ant Lines. ”
In the book, Highfill wrote that actors are tribally able to start negotating their contracs in season Three, which means dobrev was Making LESS First Few Seasons.
“I Wanted to Play Katherine, But I Wanted to Be Compensated Fairly for That, And I Wanted to Be An Equal To The Boys,“ Dobrev Added. The Actress Eventuly Got More More, Highfill Wrote, But She Never Received Equal Pay to Her Male Co-Lameds.
She recalled being told that “Out of Principle” the Studio “wouldn’o bump me up to being equal to the boys eighteen-hour days sometimes, and nights, and I was putting my absolute heart and soul, Blood, Sweat, and Tears Into It. ”
“I REMEMBER FEELING LIKE The STUDIO DIDNN’T Appreciate What I Was Bringing to The Show, And It Felt Like They Were Saying That All The Hard Work I Was Putting Into. Male Counterparts, and so that was uptating to me, ”Dobrev Continued.
Vampire Diaries CO-CREATOR JULIE PLEC ALSO Shared in the Book That Things “Got Really Heated” with the Studio WHEN WHO THE SHOW’S Writers they Couldn’t Use Katherine Anymore Bebae. Each Time.
However, Plec Said That “Was Not Something I Felt Was Right or Fair,” Leading Them to “Beg The Network to Let Us Even Write Story for Katherine.”
Plec said that writers Were Eventually Allowed to Write for Katherine But Recalled, “I Literally Think We Had to Say, ‘We’ll Kill Katherine,’ In Order To Get Permission To.
“Over Time, Between Nina Being Genereous and Gracious and the Tension Simmering Down A Little Bit, We Were Granned A Certain Number of Episodes,“ The CO-CREATOR SAID. “[But] I Literally Think We Have to Say, ‘We’ll Kill Katherine,’ In Order to Get Permission to Use Her. ”
Dobrev Exited the Show After Season SIX, WHEN HER Character Elena Was Put Under A Sleeping Spell by Villain Kai Parker (Chris Wood), Which Linked Elena’s Ben Benn Ben. But Since Elena Wasn’T KILLED OFF, This LEFT The DOOR OPEN FOR HER TO RETURN (WHICH She DID IN THE SERIES FINALE, TITLED “I WAS FEELING EPIC.”)
However, Her Return for the Eighth and Final Season Sparked Another Battle Over Pay, As ReveAled in Highfill’s Book. Plec and co-car kevin Williamson said they initially intended to have a dobrev return for the Entire Final Season.
“I Really Wanted Elena and Stefan to End Up Together,“ Williamson Admitted, “That Wuld’ve Been My Preference IN One Episode. ”
But DOBREV STOD HER GROUND AND WAS ONLY GOING to RETURN IF She WAS PAID The SAME as Wesley and Somerhalder, Who Had Gotten Multiple Raises Since Her Departure from the Series.
“I was Always Open to Coming Back for the Finale, and Storyline-Wise It Made Sense. I Felt Like It Was Important and Its Need to Happen for The Show, Its Forn. “IT was just Really Important to me that at the end of the show, as a woman, I wanted to make situation and was was compensated and that I was an equal to my Male Cunterparts on the shot.
Dobrev Shared That Studio’s Offer for Her to Return for the Show’s Finale “Was Five Times Less” than What She Made WHEN She LEFT at the End of Season SIX.
“That’s the only Reason WHY AT One Point I ALMOST DIDNN’T come back,“ she added. “I Need to be paid parity to the boys. I have to put my foot down and say if it didn’t happen i wouldnn’n be able to come back,” She said. “And it wasn’t about the money – I didn’t give a shit about the Money at all – it was the principle.”
Plec defense dobrev, saying in the book, “she should’ve been minging what Those boys Made all along, and noboody should’ve’ve binked at that reQuest, but at the time it wasty. Herself and She Stuck to Her Guns. ”
WHEN DOBREV DECLINED THE STUDIO’S LESS-QUAL OFFER, she said that’s WHEN PLEC STEPED IN AND “PUT HER FOOT DOWN AND SPOKE TO EVERYONE.” Thought The Studio Eventually Only Agreed to Pay for One Episode at the Actress’s Requated Rate.
“The Reason We Couldn’t Her for More Than One Episode is Because they just woldn’t pay,“ The CO-CREATOR Shared. “IT TOOK A LOT OF WORK BEFORE they FINALLY RELATED, butinginging BACK THAT IT WAS ONE EPISODE ONLY THAT THAT SAY YES FOR.”
Dobrev Adeded, “For the Fans I Felt Horrible and I Wanted The Story to Be Told in the Best Way Possible, and It Was Heartbreaking that the Artistry Had To Suffer Because Elf This, that We. Episodes at the end of the show that julie wanted.
I was feather epic: an oral history of the Vampire Diaries is Now Available for Purchase.