Nina Dobrev holds hands with boyfriend actor Ian Somerhalder as they walk across the street in New York City on Sunday afternoon (May 13).

The 23-year-old actress recently chatted with MTV at the “Like Me, Like Her” contest launch about possibly starring alongside Ian in the “Fifty Shades of Grey” film adaption.

“I don’t know if that’s a good idea,” Nina shared. “I think it’s best for any of the actors on the Vampire Diaries to kind of do their own things … and create new characters. And as much as you try when you shoot a movie, if it’s two of the same people, the fans will always see you as … they’ll see me as Elena and they’ll see him as Damon if we do a film together. I think it would be better [if] either he should get it or I should get it. I know that apparently he’s really great for the role, so I hope that he gets it.”

Nina added that even though she hasn’t read the novel, she has hear that “it’s very scandalous, to say the least.”

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Ian Somerhalder wraps his arms around girlfriend Nina Dobrev as they attend the 2012 Coachella Music Festival on Sunday (April 14) in Indio, Calif.

Nina, 23, wore a bold tomato colored AG Adriano Goldshmied tunneled asymmetric dress with Rachel Zoe Collection “Gretta” sandals during the last day.

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The Vampire Diaries costars met up with good friends Aaron Paul, Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson before heading to watch Justice at the fest.

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Nina Dobrev and her boyfriend Ian Somerhalder attend the Burton Snowboards pool party and BBQ held at Ace Hotel during the 2012 Coachella Music Festival on Saturday (April 14) in Palm Springs, Calif.

“Good bye paradise… I’m going to miss you!” the 23-year-old Vampire Diaries actress tweeted the day before while on her way back to California after a trip to Hawaii.

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“Thank you Burton for keeping me warm- in dessert poolside with @burtonsnowboards :)love these people,” Ian tweeted along with a picture of himself wearing Burton sweatpants.

FYI: Nina is wearing Wilfred for Aritzia‘s Victoire dress.

Cute couple alert!

Nina Dobrev cozies up to costar/boyfriend Ian Somerhalder as they attend the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards Governor’s Ball held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Sunday night (September 18) in Los Angeles.

Anyone here who wouldn’t vote for them as class couple? We didn’t think so.

Nina stopped to chat with MTV on the Emmys red carpet and dished more on working with Emma Watson in Perks of Being a Wallflower.

“She’s back in England going to Oxford, being all book smart. She’s so impressive. She’s such a smart, smart young woman and surprisingly normal and cool and regular,” Nina shared.

Check out this new promo poster of Nina Dobrev for the upcoming season of The Vampire Diaries.

The theme for the posters is forbidden fruit and the commenters at TVLine have deciphered them all. Smart people!

Nina holds a pomegranate, which symbolizes eternal life and also “mankind’s sinful choices.”

On-screen brothers Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder hold an orange and apple. The orange, in the Renaissance era meant free will, while the apple is temptation.

Meanwhile, Joseph Morgan as Klaus, holds on to a blood red pear — immortality.

The new season of TVD premieres Thursday, September 15th on the CW.

Nina Dobrev bundles up in blue flannel for the September 2011 issue of Nylon mag.

EW also just released three brand-new promo pics from the third season of The Vampire Diaries.

Paul Wesley shared with the mag about Stefan’s transformation, “Imagine Stefan sitting in high school. Apart from the fact that I just look weird sitting in high school…he’s murdered all these people. What do you think, we’re just gonna go hang out now? As far as he’s concerned, he’s moved on. He’s past it all.”

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Nina Dobrev is no match for Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder‘s tug-o-war skills in this new shot from Rolling Stone.

The Vampire Diaries trio were styled by Cristina Ehrlich to show off some of fall’s hottest trends.

Nina, 23, enjoyed the shoot. She shared, “We’ve been doing a photo shoot that’s unlike any that we’ve done before. We’re testing the limits of gravity. There’s something sort of deadpan and expressionless about it, and at the same time, we all feel like rock stars.”

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