Nina DobrevSe has co-stars. The Vampire Diaries Recently jumped into action to prevent the stage backdrop from falling on him.
The 35-year-old actor, who played Elena on the hit CW series, took the stage on Friday (December 6) at EpicCon’s “I Was Feeling Festival 2” panel in Covington, Georgia. She was joined by her former co-stars Candace King, who played Caroline, and Kate Graham, who played Bonnie.
At one point, a backdrop almost fell on Dobrev while she was speaking on stage, prompting her friends to save her.
In Viral Video Of the incident shared on X/Twitter, King and Graham can be seen jumping out of their seats and pushing up the backdrop so it wouldn’t fall on Dobrev. Meanwhile, Dobrev quickly got out of his chair and took off his leather jacket, apparently confused by what had just happened.
Graham and King helped the backdrop into its proper place before returning to their seats.
“Not today, not today!” Graham humorously told the audience, in response to the stage piece falling on Dobrev. “I don’t want to see any ‘Bonnie saves the day’ memes, well… I don’t want to hear it.”
gave Love hard. The star then hugged King, before explaining why he took off his jacket amid all the commotion.
“I thought it was a spider!” Dobrev said to laughter from the audience.
Despite Graham’s efforts to avoid memes, fans have reacted to the viral moment by poking fun at how he and King saved Dobrev — just as their characters Bonnie and Caroline often do with Elena. saved in the Supernatural TV series, which ran for eight seasons.
“They’re always protecting Elena to the point it’s breaking the fourth wall,” one person quipped, while another wrote: “Decades later and they’re still protecting Elena.”
“This isn’t a true representation of the Elena, Caroline, and Bonnie dynamic?” Written by the third person.
Others joked about how Dobrev took off his jacket when the backdrop fell.
“She dropped her coat like it was on fire or an unwanted boyfriend,” one user wrote, “Was the jacket holding her back? She got out of that thing too fast.”
During EpicCon over the weekend, Dobrev took Instagram to share a video of himself at the event with King and Graham. In the clip, Graham stood between his two friends, as they recreated a photo from their days on set. The Vampire Diaries.
“We’re still just kids,” she captioned the clip, which was set to Simple Plan’s song “I’m Just a Kid.”
gave The Vampire Diaries The reunion comes weeks after Dobrev. announced that she and her longtime partner, Olympic snowboarder Shaun White, are engaged..
In an interview with Vogue Last October, White explained how he wanted to surprise the actor when he popped the question, so he sent him a fake invitation from the CFDA/vogue, who asked him to have dinner with the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour.
“It made the invitation so legitimate,” Dobrev said.
However, when he opened the door to the restaurant, he found that only a photographer and a professional snowboarder were there. “I went into shock. I just froze and stared at him,” Dobrev said.
According to The benefits of being a wallflower Satara, she doesn’t remember how the proposal came about. However, she can recall that when it happened, White “said everything right.” Once she said yes, the pair were joined by the rest of their friends and family, and they all had champagne to celebrate.
“Eventually we realized, besides the caviar, we didn’t eat anything. So we ordered shakes and dumplings at the Golden Swan,” Dobrev said.