‘The Vampire Diaries’ Season 6 News: Julie Plec Discusses Directing ‘Let Her Go,’ ‘It’s An Endurance Challenge’ [VIDEO]
Thursday night the latest episode of The Vampire Diaries aired called Let Her Go, which executive producer Julie Plec used as her directorial debut.
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On Thursday, Variety shared Plec's insight into directing an episode of The Vampire Diaries.
Plec revealed that every single day on set of The Vampire Diaries and its spin-off The Originals she always sits with the directors and discusses all the scenes in depth.
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"I sit with the director and I talk him through shots I like, I talk him through lens sizes I like, I talk about the actors and their performances and how to massage certain things and what beats to make sure you hit and what the show should look and feel like," she revealed so it only seemed logical for her to take the director's chair finally.
Plec shared that the call time each day while filming the episode made her nervous.
"I'm a night person and I never, ever, ever get up in the morning. I'm so terrified of being late or missing my alarm clock that I get the worst anxiety," she dished, adding, "It's the dumbest thing, but another director said that to me. It's a director's worst nightmare."
She said directing is tough.
"It's an endurance challenge," she explained, adding, "You're inevitably on your feet all day running around and tweaking things and moving from set to set and standing and jumping into set. I'm a writer, so I'm used to sitting on my butt for 12 hours at a time, and I haven't had to be that active on the job."
Plec also mentioned that time on set while directing is another hurdle since "directing is all about communicating, and everybody needs to be communicated with differently. Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher."
Catch The Vampire Diaries on Thursdays on The CW at 8 p.m. ET.
