I like the scruff too. By the way, I had a lot of scruff earlier. Um, I looked like a mountain man. I didn't shave for over two months. Yeah, that might have been too much. You got the chest hair going. Don't relax that. Don't wax it. Please.

I had to shave it for the show because I'm 17 on the show and so I I have to shave it for the show. No, no, no. Is that okay to say Julie? Free. Let it go wild and free. I don't stop waxing the chest, guys. I I don't do it by choice.

No, I know, I know. But I'm just telling the men out there. You see that's the situation. All the men in my family have hairy chests. I'd like to keep that. This is good. I'm supporting the chest hair. What's with that? You're not doing the chest hair thing.

In the off season, that's what he's

What are you doing? Oh, I'm really excited. It's becoming a theme. There it is. Is that chest hair too? It's a good thing. You're missing a tail. You're missing like the first thing I would wear with this would be a tail.

Yeah, a tail would be fun, wouldn't it? I completely forgot that she had a tail. You look hot. I have a tail. I'm just hiding it right now.

How do you think this next season is going to be a fresh take on previous seasons?

Well, I mean, it's our first season without Nina, so it it has to be fresh. It has to be something new. It has to be I mean, we have to really prove ourselves in uh in a different kind of way. No Elena means that there needs to be sort of a new I I'm not saying triangle in particular in that fashion romantic triangle, but there has to be some sort of um third party that's going to have to sort of create a dynamic between uh Stefan and Damon. So I I and that is something that I know is going to be coming. I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be like another girl, but it could be like, you know, our mom could be getting in between us, like Lady Macbeth. I mean, everything just jumps up a notch or two. Yeah, you know. I mean, really, even Mystic Falls, the the city starts uh you really see the city, um the town as uh a town that kind of lost everything. I mean, it feels almost apocalyptic uh when you start the new season. So, it's no one has anything to lose. There's a lot of That's always been things there's a lot of craziness. There's a lot of blood.

Name your favorite animal really quick.

A cat, obviously.

Tiger.

Rhino.

What are the three qualities about the cat that you like?

Oh my God. Independent, uh grumpy, yet loving.

Tough, gentle, surprising.

Beautiful, majestic, almost extinct.

Your favorite animal and your description is yourself. That is literally me. Grumpy. Yes, that is but I'm not independent. I'm so needy. Tough, gentle, surprising. This is the real you. So you're beautiful, majestic and There's only one of you. So. That's pretty good. Are you really needy?

So needy. I think I love I just love I love being around company of um uh women.

Do you think that's accurate? I don't know how gentle I am, but sure. I get the tough thing. I get that. I guess. I don't know. I wasn't prepared. What would you consider yourself? A hairbrush singer, a steering wheel drummer.

Wait, wait, what's the first one?

Hairbrush singer, like, you know, hairbrush singer. Okay. Steering wheel drummer. Okay. Or air guitarist?

Air guitarist. I do a lot of air guitar.

Do you really?

Yeah, I do. You think I'd pick the hairbrush singer, but I do a lot of air guitar. Usually girls, it's the it's the hairbrush.

Yeah, no, I like wa with some air guitar. Yeah. Uh, a steering wheel drummer. Yeah.

Yeah, steering wheel drummer. Hit those beats. Just chilling out. But but though I don't drive with two hands. I drive with one.

Oh, you're one of those. I actually drive a little bit like this. My cool way. Oh, you're one of those guys. Yeah, like hustling slow. Are you like down low, you know?

Yeah, down low and I listen to Hip Hop.

Yeah. You're the guy that, you know, can rap and you know, you're the guy that next to me that I'm like, yeah, he thinks he can rap.

No, I can rap.

Can you really? Okay.

I can do Ice Ice Baby.

All right, go.

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Which does Which of those words does Comic-Con make you feel? Sexy, dark, fun or volatile?

Um, fun. Probably volatile, because half my outfits didn't show up and I'm like ready to kill someone.

Oh really? Yeah. Sexy and fun. I do there's a lot of sexiness happening. I always There's always a lot of sexiness at Comic-Con. Yeah, it's been nine years now and there's lots of sexual energy. Uh and uh not volatile. Good. I mean, maybe after too many drinks you become projectile. This is awesome. Dude, I don't have this in my suitcase if they, you know, my stuff doesn't arrive. This is okay. This is uh okay, just last minute. You want to borrow my coach?

I might have to.

Your favorite ending to a film ever?

Oh my gosh. Oh, wow. That's a big question. The best ending to any movie I've ever seen. That's so loaded cuz I'm such a movie freak.

Out of the 7,000 movies. Out of the 7,000 in your library.

Well, one of the best movie endings in a movie was Casablanca. You know, I I like to like think of movies that are fresh in my mind. Yeah. So like I just saw um Ex uh Machina. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Oh wait, no. Did I get it wrong? No, was it What was it frankly my dear, I don't give a damn. No, that was Gone with the Wind. That was the wrong one. Oh my God. Spoiler alert. Yeah, spoiler alert. Sorry. If you haven't seen it. Yeah, don't.

Paul likes to spoil movies.

Well, you asked me my favorite ending. I know. I know so could have avoided that. What's a new one? That's the that's why we have to put out the spoiler. I watched this digitally remastered um uh it was a it was actually a Cary Grant movie and I forgot what it was. It was a scene he was on a train. I love every Cary Grant movie. I know every one of them. I'm blanking. But I watched it in this new calibration cuz now everything's calibrated for sports. Right. And I watched it and I was I was appalled. I thought, oh my God, I literally had tears in my eyes cuz I realized this generation doesn't actually know the suspense of disbelief. Suspension of disbelief is about the camera creates that. It doesn't need to be hyper real. You don't need to see every pore in someone's face because I'm

I agree. I don't want anybody to see all that. I truly I truly don't. No. But it's beautiful. So

But I just I urge the younger generation. Anyone watching this show, I mean, this interview which probably no one is.

No, we get millions Ian, millions.

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