Ian Somerhalder Talks Vampire Diaries Death and Dawn Olivieri

Poor Damon. Just like the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz, Damon has found (or is finding) his heart. Of course, the Tin Man didn’t kill anyone when he got up close and personal with his emotions – classic ‘wrong place at the wrong time’ scenario for someone in last week’s episode. However, Ian Somerhalder isn’t too torn up about it, saying, “Sometimes you just have to eat people.”

TVLine caught up with Ian to find out what’s in store for the increasingly emotional vampire, “This whole ‘feeling thing’ is really starting to weigh on Damon and it’s becoming increasingly difficult for him to quell those feelings. That frustration, compounded with the danger and problematic nature of having this werewolf thing and the Klaus thing — there are a lot of odds stacked against him.”

What’s worse than having feelings? Having feelings for Elena – sweet, sexy, very mortal Elena. “The fact that Elena, this beautiful creature that he just adores, could fall to another entity and he has no control over it, really pisses him off,” Ian say, “He has to protect what he loves, and he and Stefan will come together and make this Klaus thing happen.”

Damon apparently decides the best way to get Elena off his mind is to occupy his thoughts with another woman, so he hooks up with Andie Star (Dawn Olivieri).

“Damon gets a hot beard, who just so happens to be a local newscaster. She’s super-fun to be around, and she’s a woman, not a high school girl,” reveals Ian. “She adds a totally different dynamic to the show. She’s very quirky, very witty, she doesn’t have anything to lose. She’s not running from any supernatural entity, she’s just a person — but underneath it all, it’s sad that the only way he can express his real feelings is when he has compelled someone not to do anything.” Chances are Andie won’t be around for too long since Olivieri will soon be appearing in House of Lies with Don Cheadle.

Of course, the big question that has been on everyone’s mind (aside from the identity of Klaus) is who’s going to die at the end of this season? Not even Ian knows that answer but he does warn, “no one’s safe. It’s like Lost! You can just off whichever character you want — ‘Oh, a werewolf killed him!’ I do know that the werewolves will have to be dealt with. And poor Tyler. Jules is really hot, though, so maybe they can run off and have pretty little werewolf husky babies.”

Little werewolf husky babies? Now there’s something you don’t see on the CW every day. That would be one heck of  a plot twist.