

"Originally, I was going to read the books and do some research, but after looking into it, I found out my character was a 4-year-old girl named Margaret," McQueen told Da Man magazine. Steven R McQueen, the actor who played Jeremy, talked about how he couldn't use the book for inspiration. Elena and Caroline were enemiesĮlena had a 4-year-old sister, Margaret, and Jeremy, Elena's wayward teen brother and Bonnie's main love interest, was purely created for the show.
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Ironically, many fans thought Elena became increasingly selfish as the TV show progressed. Her parents died a few years before the start of the books so her sadness was more muted and her vulnerability less obvious.Įlena gradually developed into a character who didn't just think about herself: she became focussed on protecting her friends and family and learnt to value them above everything else. At one point, Elena got her friends to swear a blood oath to help her snare Stefan. All in all, Elena was more like the self-centred Caroline of season one, only worse.

We kind of abandoned that queen-bee popular complex that in a lot of ways defined early Elena in the books," Plec told E! News.Įven her appearance was different. really kind of selfish and that didn't ever feel like a characteristic that we wanted for our heroine. The show's executive producers Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson hated the negative aspects of her character.

She was vain, manipulative and selfish –nothing like the naive, innocent girl at the start of the series. The biggest change was Elena's personality.
