Being an immortal vampire, like brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore, certainly has its perks, including living through the entire contents of our 10th grade history book. Having been turned in 1864, the duo has witnessed prohibition, a few World Wars (sad), even the first lunar landing. But what were they doing while history was being made? Ian Somerhalder has a few ideas (and they're pretty swinging).
When we caught up with the "Vampire Diaries" at the 2010 Spike Scream Awards, we couldn't help but ask what his character Damon would have been up to in the 1950s. The ever-playful Ian speculated that Damon would have been rubbing elbows with some seriously famous friends.
"[He was] probably hanging out with Cary Grant, waiting for Mick Jagger to get old enough to hang out with in the '70s," Ian said with a mischievous grin. And, apparently, Damon has just as good of taste in ladies as he does in buds. "I have to think that Damon had to have slept with Marilyn Monroe and Kate Hepburn," he added. Eat your heart out, Katherine!
Any dalliances with the blond bombshell obviously ended in the 1960s when Marilyn mysteriously turned up dead. But before you get ahead of yourself, conspiracy theorists, Damon had nothing to do with her untimely death.
"Damon didn't kill her, man," Ian assured us. "I'm sure he did the whole mind compulsion thing so she'd sleep with him, but I don't think he [killed her]."
All right, Crushers. Time to let your imaginations run wild. What do you think Damon's been up to for the last 150 years?
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