Take a Walk

DANIEL GILLIES: Typically in awards season, we’re going to award a Showtime or an HBO or an FX. You’re not going to award network television and certainly not the CW. Do you ever feel that there’s an injustice to that?

JULIE PLEC: Yeah. We don’t do this for accolades ever but what is frustrating is that what’s become of the TV awards landscape: There is no room for the broadcast model because on cable, there exists both Bates Motel and Game of Thrones — a show made for two dollars can go up against a massive, massive exceptional HBO extravaganza and they’re all in the cable universe. I was convinced that Nina [Dobrev] should’ve been nominated for a Golden Globe the first season because [the Hollywood Foreign Press Association] has a history of nominating young actresses. They nominated Keri Russell; they nominated Sarah Michelle Gellar. They always pick the young, interesting actress from the new generation, and that year, they nominated Piper Perabo from Covert Affairs. And I was like, “S–t! That actually could’ve legitimately been Nina’s award.” But we’re a show that shoots in Atlanta. The Golden Globes are a campaign awards. In order to campaign for a Golden Globe, you do set visits, you throw luncheons, you do all those things.

PAUL WESLEY: Also there’s a stigma with a supernatural show.

JULIE PLEC: 1000 percent.