Speaker 1: So Amy and Morrigan interviewed Nina Dobrev. So you know
Speaker 1: her from well Ill she's in Vampire Diaries, but she
Speaker 1: also was in that Netflix movie that came out her
Speaker 1: on Christmas, Love Hard, and then she's in Redeeming Love,
Speaker 1: which just hit theaters and I watched that and it's
Speaker 1: like such a good movie. Morgan, you know Nina from
Speaker 1: I can't say her name, Nina Dobrev from I mean
Speaker 1: I follow her on Socials but also Vampire Diaries. In Degrassi,
Speaker 1: she has twenty five million followers. Wow, yeah, that's a superstar.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would recognize her. What I that's
Speaker 1: crazy that somebody can be so famous to a part.
Speaker 1: But that's that's the earth, now. Yeah, some people are
Speaker 1: so famous to some and not at all to others.
Speaker 1: But I don't watch these kinds of shows, so I
Speaker 1: get it. But man, she's wildly famous. Yeah. I saw
Speaker 1: she was on Ellen the other day and I guess
Speaker 1: she's has a partnership with Julian Huff and they now
Speaker 1: have like a wine business together too. Okay, here's Amy
Speaker 1: and Morgan interviewing Nina Dobre, which we're good about this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so good all right, here we go on the Bobby
Speaker 1: Bones Show. Now, Hey, Nina, Hi, Okay, we're so excited
Speaker 1: to have you on. I'm Amy. We also have Morgan
Speaker 1: number two O, our web girl, on and she's going
Speaker 1: to bring you some questions in a minute that are
Speaker 1: from our listeners. But I gotta say I saw Redeeming
Speaker 1: Love and I'm obsessed with it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you liked it. Is that something where you
Speaker 1: read the book before you ever were approached or decided
Speaker 1: to do the project, and you're like, oh, I've got
Speaker 1: to do this, this is for me, or how did
Speaker 1: that come about? Actually, no, I hadn't read the book.
Speaker 1: I wasn't familiar with it. But of course, once DJ Cursa,
Speaker 1: the director of the movie who I worked has previously
Speaker 1: called me and Semi the script, I fell in love
Speaker 1: with the story, and I fell in love with the
Speaker 1: themes in the movie. And I love South Africa, which
Speaker 1: is where we shot the movie, so it felt like
Speaker 1: a no brainer. One of my friends read that book,
Speaker 1: that's where I first learned about it, and she said
Speaker 1: that it's a book that completely changed her view of
Speaker 1: God more than like any other book. She's ever read,
Speaker 1: and she's read it four times, so she also was
Speaker 1: super pumped about the movie. It takes place. What year
Speaker 1: is that, by the way, it takes place in the
Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds, if I'm not mistaken, I don't remember the
Speaker 1: specific year, but sometimes in the eighteen hundreds. It was
Speaker 1: really fun to put on all the costumes and really
Speaker 1: transform into these characters. It makes it a lot easier.
Speaker 1: It makes our job year as an actor to become
Speaker 1: an embody a role. When you have a whole transformation
Speaker 1: from more joke to hair and makeup, it's so different
Speaker 1: than what you're used to. Have you watched the Yellowstone
Speaker 1: prequel eighteen eighty three, I actually haven't a lot of
Speaker 1: people have been bringing that up in the interviews, and
Speaker 1: I feel like I need to watch it now because
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about it, But no, I haven't, no chance. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: The vibe of redeeming love was making me think of
Speaker 1: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill and in that new show.
Speaker 1: Another movie that I saw recently with you in well
Speaker 1: actually a few months ago, but it was Love Hard
Speaker 1: and I thought that was the most adorable Netflix movie ever.
Speaker 1: And you know it's about catfishing, and I just didn't
Speaker 1: know if you've ever dealt with anything like that in
Speaker 1: your real life. Not really, because I've actually never been
Speaker 1: on a dating app myself. I've been on them through
Speaker 1: friends accounts just to play around, which is going to
Speaker 1: clol when you think about it, because I'm playing with
Speaker 1: their real lives. But but no, I've never actually been
Speaker 1: in that scenario, thank goodness. My daughter is currently watching
Speaker 1: Vampire Diaries. She's fourteen. So when I told her I
Speaker 1: was going to be talking to you this morning before
Speaker 1: she left for school, she was like, please tell her.
Speaker 1: I said, Hi, I was just watching her yesterday, so
Speaker 1: I have to tell her hide back. Yeah, I get
Speaker 1: that high in there from my daughter. Stashira, What role?
Speaker 1: Because you've done lots of things, but you know, like
Speaker 1: my daughter would recognize you from Vampire Diaries, I would
Speaker 1: recognize you from other things. Like what role? Do you
Speaker 1: get recognized the most for? I've been I mean, for
Speaker 1: sure were Vampire Diaries by Landslide, That's what I'm most
Speaker 1: known for, and I get stopped on the street the
Speaker 1: most for. But recently because of Love Heart, I didn't
Speaker 1: even realize I guess how many people watched it. I
Speaker 1: should have assumed because Netflix is worldwide and and it
Speaker 1: apparently performed really well globally for them, which is really exciting.
Speaker 1: But I definitely I've been getting a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of people have been shopping me now because of that.
Speaker 1: For all the different characters that you have played over time, like,
Speaker 1: do you ever get so into a role that you
Speaker 1: know you forget like in your real life you're not
Speaker 1: that character, or do you even do what they call
Speaker 1: method acting? You probably know more about that than I do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a tricky thing because I don't identify
Speaker 1: as someone who's a method actor, and I definitely don't
Speaker 1: intend to do that, but I think it's sort of hard,
Speaker 1: and whether people admit it or not, you naturally do
Speaker 1: take on some of the characteristics of the role that
Speaker 1: you're playing. And I remember when I was shooting Vampridary specifically,
Speaker 1: like I was a young, kind of good girl at
Speaker 1: the time, and when I started playing Catherine, I naturally
Speaker 1: started to sort of embody her and kind of act
Speaker 1: like her and did things as that character that then
Speaker 1: gave me a confidence in my real life to be
Speaker 1: more you know, spunky and a little darker and so
Speaker 1: I think it did bring it home with me, whether
Speaker 1: I was aware of it or not. About any fashion
Speaker 1: from Redeeming Love, you brought that with you, like the
Speaker 1: corset or anything like that. I ripped that corset off
Speaker 1: as soon as I possibly could when we started shooting
Speaker 1: because it was so uncomfortable. I think, all course, it's
Speaker 1: you know, you can't breathe. They're really beautiful and they
Speaker 1: push the boobs up, which is always exciting, but they
Speaker 1: weren't comfortable. So no, I didn't take anything back with me.
Speaker 1: There was a really beautiful white custom dress at the
Speaker 1: end of the movie that my character wears that I
Speaker 1: wanted to take home, and they said that I could
Speaker 1: take it home, but I don't think I ever got it. Morgan,
Speaker 1: do you have some questions from the web? Yeah? I do. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Nina, you know, you're talking about Vampire Diaries and
Speaker 1: in some of the fans of that show really want
Speaker 1: to know do you ever plan to make an appearance
Speaker 1: on the show Legacies? What a wonderful question. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it depends on I don't want
Speaker 1: to say never. Say you never say never, But at
Speaker 1: this moment in time, I've had so many things going on.
Speaker 1: I'm about to be for Europe to shoot a film,
Speaker 1: and I've been kind of all over the place, so
Speaker 1: I don't know, schedule wise, if it's possible. But I
Speaker 1: know that the show is a fan favorite and people
Speaker 1: who watched Van Pioriays love it, and that a lot
Speaker 1: of people from our show did make appearances. So we'll see. Well.
Speaker 1: I think fans will be really excited to hear that.
Speaker 1: Now you're talking about all the projects that you're doing.
Speaker 1: How do you decide if a project is the right
Speaker 1: fit for you, like now in your career, since you've
Speaker 1: done so much. It really depends on three different factors
Speaker 1: at this point. When I was younger, I would sort
Speaker 1: of take whatever opportunity came my way because I wanted
Speaker 1: to work and I wanted to grow my career and
Speaker 1: every project to the next one. But now I really
Speaker 1: make my decisions based on the character, the script overall,
Speaker 1: and the filmmakers involved, because it's important to me to
Speaker 1: tell impactful stories that affects people and that hopefully move
Speaker 1: the needle. Or I have strong themes and can have
Speaker 1: the audience go away with big takeaways that hopefully impact
Speaker 1: their lives. And are socially conscious if possible. But female
Speaker 1: like strong female characters are important to me and working
Speaker 1: with billmakers that are inspirational, and that's kind of what
Speaker 1: I make my decisions on. Yeah. And has there ever
Speaker 1: been a project that you initially passed on that maybe
Speaker 1: you went back to or maybe you passed on and
Speaker 1: you just wish you maybe didn't pass on it. Of course. Yeah,
Speaker 1: There's been tons of things that came and went. And
Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned Yellowstone. I was a pre Yellowstone
Speaker 1: and ended up not going for it. So I know
Speaker 1: that's a great show and a fan favorite. And so
Speaker 1: I also really believe in everything happening for a reason
Speaker 1: and having an intended path that maybe you don't know about.
Speaker 1: But everything works out exactly as it's supposed to what
Speaker 1: it's supposed to, is my belief. Yeah, for sure. It
Speaker 1: sounds like Amy had a question too on that Yellowstone.
Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, mostly I'm just obsessed with the Yellowstone
Speaker 1: and now I need to know. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it was Nina up for like Beth or Casey's whife
Speaker 1: or do you even know? It was so long ago
Speaker 1: that I don't even remember the name of the character.
Speaker 1: And I haven't seen the show, but I didn't get
Speaker 1: it and then pass on it. I didn't you an
Speaker 1: audition for it because I don't remember why the reason was,
Speaker 1: but I was just like, it doesn't feel right for me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now you know there's other roles that you have done
Speaker 1: that are you mentioned being really well known for Vampire Diaries,
Speaker 1: you also did Degrassi, So for either of those, are
Speaker 1: you still in touch with any of those fellow actors
Speaker 1: because those were two really big shows for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course we all keep in touch, some more than others.
Speaker 1: But when you spend so much time on set with everyone,
Speaker 1: they become your family. So you definitely stay in touch afterwards.
Speaker 1: If your lives get align, then everyone's doing so many
Speaker 1: different things, but we make an upper for sure well,
Speaker 1: and I think the bigger part of that is Drake,
Speaker 1: because that was Drake's big start. Now he's this massive artist.
Speaker 1: Are you know, are you two still friends? I know
Speaker 1: that's one that a lot of your fans want to
Speaker 1: know too, for sure. Yeah. I mean, like I said,
Speaker 1: his life is one in one rocket ship direction and
Speaker 1: I'm in a different direction. So every now and then
Speaker 1: our past crass and when we do see each other.
Speaker 1: It's really bittersweet and like fun and we catch up,
Speaker 1: but I don't I wouldn't say that we hang out
Speaker 1: every week, No, but we keep in touch for sure.
Speaker 1: Now sorry, I mean one more question from from the web.
Speaker 1: You also mentioned that you know, you make sure you
Speaker 1: take roles that are really impactful and emotional that people
Speaker 1: can learn from. Is there any life lessons that you've
Speaker 1: continued to you know, have in your life from characters
Speaker 1: you've portrayed. Yeah, I mean with every role there's a
Speaker 1: little nugget with love heart. For example, one of the
Speaker 1: big themes was perfection and searching for perfection and taking
Speaker 1: a step back, but for that character in particular, to
Speaker 1: realize that it's a little bit hypocritical to be looking
Speaker 1: for perfection when she herself isn't perfect and no one
Speaker 1: is perfect, and so it's about finding your flaws and
Speaker 1: accepting them and accepting them and others And that's like,
Speaker 1: that was a big one for me. And then it's
Speaker 1: redeeming love that seem of that movie is so powerful
Speaker 1: and so beautiful, and it's it's about you know, the
Speaker 1: struggles of life and overcoming them with the people that
Speaker 1: you love and choosing that person that you want to
Speaker 1: go through the difficult times with and someone who will
Speaker 1: choose you over and over again, no matter how flawed
Speaker 1: you are, and not really settling until you find that person.
Speaker 1: I love that, Amy, go ahead, I'm all done over here.
Speaker 1: Well no, I mean on that note, I'll just encourage
Speaker 1: listeners to check out Redeeming lovemovie dot com because I
Speaker 1: watched it. It's based on the bestselling novel Redeeming Love,
Speaker 1: and Nina, I thought you did an amazing job and yes,
Speaker 1: it's such a powerful story, so definitely was was the
Speaker 1: right role for you and I can't wait for everyone
Speaker 1: to see it. It's your bress over there. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you for taking the time to talk with us. My pleasure.
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. Let's see