00s TV star, 45, reveals he has no plans to return to acting

An histrion who starred successful a deed 00s supernatural teen play series has revealed his acting vocation ‘is successful the rear-view mirror’.

Ian Somerhalder played Boone Carlyle successful the play bid Lost from 2004 until 2010, past going connected to beryllium formed arsenic Damon Salvatore successful the CW supernatural teen play bid The Vampire Diaries.

The series, which ran for 8 seasons from 2009 until 2017, followed Elena Gilbert (played by Nina Dobrev), a teenage miss who falls successful emotion with a 161-year-old vampire named Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley).

However, erstwhile his older member Damon returns to their tiny municipality with plans to bring backmost their past love, who is Elena’s doppelganger, a emotion triangle past emerges.

The bid was the most-watched amusement connected the web for a time, and was truthful palmy it besides spawned the spin-off bid The Originals.

However, successful the years since it ended Ian has lone appeared successful 1 different bid – the Netflix subject fabrication fearfulness V Wars, which ran from 2019 until 2020.

He’s besides worked connected 2 biology documentaries and launched a bourbon marque with his erstwhile co-star Paul, 42.

This week Ian, 45, spoke astir his acting career, sharing helium had nary plans to measurement successful beforehand of the camera again anytime soon.

‘I deliberation it’s successful the rearview mirror. I do,’ helium said of his acting vocation successful an interrogation with People.

‘Well, I dunno, we got the rights backmost for V Wars, but I conscionable don’t cognize however the hellhole we would ever marque a TV show,’ helium added, referring to the series his woman Nikki Reed besides starred in.

‘We’re gathering 3 companies astatine the aforesaid time, raising kids.’

After getting joined successful 2015 Ian and Nikki, who is champion known for playing Rosalie Hale successful The Twilight Saga, near Los Angeles and moved to a workplace ‘very extracurricular the city’.

They stock 2 children – Bodhi, 7, and a babe boy, who is simply a twelvemonth old.

Last year, the mates co-founded The Absorption Company – a tech-powered supplement brand.

Nikki, 36, besides told the work that portion determination was ‘no doorway closed’ to acting, she was engaged ‘working implicit 90 hours a week, moving a institution afloat clip and launching different company’.

Earlier this twelvemonth Ian referenced however it had been 5 years since helium was professionally connected camera arsenic an histrion and he’d ‘stepped distant to physique companies, motorboat films and rise my kids’.

He besides said that portion helium ‘loved what helium did for a precise agelong time’ helium ‘didn’t miss immoderate of it’.

Nikki, whose different surface credits included The O.C. and Sleepy Hollow, past appeared connected surface successful V Wars too.

The Vampire Diaries is streaming connected ITVX.

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