It started with an innocent soalan from a fan: What do the actor and his character Damon Salvatore have in common?
“Damon and I have a lot in common. I Cinta to kill people, I Cinta to seduce women, who are way to young for me.” Ian said. As he mentioned the last fact all the peminat-peminat started to scream, because as we all know Nina is 10 years younger than him. Before Ian could’ve continued one of the peminat-peminat said: “Both of anda have sex with Elena”
Of course the audience exploded but Ian stayed real cool: “Damon hadn’t had sex with Elena..” He didn’t say a word about himself (he didn’t deny it either). But then he added: “…but Damon will have sex with Elena”.

In the end he still answered the question: “We actually have a lot in common. Damon has a lot of humanity. I know how it feels to be in love, I know how it feels to be in pain and I know how it feels to argue with your brother .
All in all Damon lives through the same experiences as I do. It’s a weird relationship between us. I don’t even know who Damon really is. It’s a lot of me in him. It’s weird, maybe I shouldn’t talk about this and usually I don’t talk about it.