Nina Dobrev: 'Katherine Wins!'

Paul Wesley throws Nina Dobrev back against a cave wall in this new sneak peek at the mid-season finale of The Vampire Diaries.

Nina, 22, caught up with EW to give fans a scoop of what is happening. She shared, “First, Jeremy getting trapped in the tomb was like, Katherine wins! When Stefan came in, she’s like, ‘Wow, I couldn’t have planned this better if I tried. The one person I want to be stuck with, here he is, and now he’s got nowhere to go. I will seduce him, I will tease him, I will anger him.’ The line between love and hate truly is very, very thin.”

She continued, “So she has a chance to egg him on, and he can’t do anything about it. He has no choice but to listen, and yeah, it is a very kind of sexy, manipulative scene, and he gives in. It’s pretty crazy.”

What about her other character, Elena? “Elena is in a predicament in the sense that she has a challenge, and she is out of control for the first time in a long time. When Elijah comes into her life on this day, it’s even more challenging, and tempting. Elena is the one who has to make a decision, and this time, she’s not in control, which is very frustrating for her. Elena doesn’t like to not be in control,” Nina shared.

“By The Light of the Moon” premieres TONIGHT, Thursday, December 9th @ 8PM ET/PT on the CW.

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