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"The Vampire Diaries star Paul Wesley has shared his excitement about playing Silas in the show&amp;#039;s upcoming fifth season. In the fourth season finale, it emerged that Stefan is a doppelganger of Silas, and Stefan ended up locked in a safe at the bottom of a lake.  &amp;gt; &amp;#039;The Vampire Diaries&amp;#039;: Five things we learned from exec Caroline Dries Wesley told journalists at San Diego&amp;#039;s Comic-Con that he &amp;quot;loves&amp;quot; the twist, saying: &amp;quot;I love the challenge and I love that Stefan is in the bottom of a lake. I love him, but at the same time, I feel like I need a little space from Stefan right now.&amp;quot; Wesley - who revealed that Stefan is &amp;quot;having hallucinations&amp;quot; in the lake - joked that co-star Nina Dobrev has not yet given him any tips about playing a doppelganger but said he&amp;#039;s looking forward to pulling double duty. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not looking forward to the extra hours and having to work all day,&amp;quot; he joked. &amp;quot;But yeah, I am. It&amp;#039;s definitely a challenge. I&amp;#039;ve never done anything like this before.&amp;quot; Wesley also suggested that his portrayal of Silas will be &amp;quot;different&amp;quot; from &amp;#039;Ripper Stefan&amp;#039;, saying: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think he shows his colours as much - I think he has a lot of fun. I&amp;#039;m going to approach him in a very light way. I&amp;#039;m going to have a lot of fun with Silas.&amp;quot;  &amp;gt; &amp;#039;The Vampire Diaries&amp;#039; Ian Somerhalder on &amp;quot;cute&amp;quot; Delena, roommate Jeremy The actor claimed that the other characters will &amp;quot;eventually&amp;quot; find out that Silas is impersonating Stefan, but explained that for the moment the two will be hard to distinguish, saying: &amp;quot;Initially he&amp;#039;s impersonating Stefan, so it&amp;#039;s similar. But I think eventually it&amp;#039;s going to be obvious, very apparent, who&amp;#039;s who.&amp;quot; Wesley also expressed an interest in what Stefan will do when he is free from the lake, joking that he will &amp;quot;get a beer&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;smoke a cigarette&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m curious to see how they&amp;#039;re going to write that,&amp;quot; he continued. &amp;quot;What sort of place he will be in, psychologically. What if he gets out and he&amp;#039;s just like, &amp;#039;Hey! Hey guys! It&amp;#039;s all good&amp;#039;.&amp;quot;  &amp;gt; &amp;#039;The Vampire Diaries&amp;#039; Kat Graham on Bonnie&amp;#039;s death, Jeremy Elsewhere, Wesley explained that he would like to see The Vampire Diaries &amp;quot;reset itself and go back to its old school roots&amp;quot;, saying: &amp;quot;I want it to unwind and not be so complicated. I want the stories to be a little simplified.&amp;quot; He confessed as well that he misses Lexi (Arielle Kebbel) - explaining that she &amp;quot;brings out the lighter side of Stefan&amp;quot; and could &amp;quot;maybe&amp;quot; come back - and admitted that he &amp;quot;really likes&amp;quot; the relationship between Stefan and Caroline (Candice Accola). &amp;quot;Candice is fantastic and we have great chemistry,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know what&amp;#039;s going to happen there. I really don&amp;#039;t. I truly don&amp;#039;t know anything. But I hope Stefan gets some action. I hope Silas gets some action, actually, come to think of it. That would be great.&amp;quot; The Vampire Diaries returns with its new season on October 10 on The CW. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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