Ian Somerhalder has no regrets after formally leaving Hollywood and his appearing occupation at the back of.
“I love what I did for a really long time. I love making films, I just did it for so long. We had an amazing run,” Somerhalder, 45, informed E! Information on Friday, January 12, all through a joint interview with spouse Nikki Reed. “But this is our 2.0 version — about to be 3.0 version.”
The replace on Somerhalder’s skilled lifestyles may come as a wonder to a few enthusiasts. He prior to now hinted at his determination to give up appearing whilst discussing his and Reed’s transfer to a farm outdoor of Los Angeles. The couple, who proportion two children, gushed about developing a brand new house with 18 pets — each farm-related and home — after promoting their earlier belongings.
“[I love] walking through the farm with kids and dogs and family,” Somerhalder mentioned with E! in November 2023. “Every stop, you’re pulling off of trees or off of bushes, pulling up out of the ground and feeding everyone as you’re moving through the farm.”
On the time, the actor stated he cherished his new commonplace, including, “We’re farm people, we produce most of our own food, I live in my cowboy boots.”
Somerhalder rose to repute taking part in Boone on Misplaced, but it surely was once his position as Damon Salvatore in The CW’s hit sequence The Vampire Diaries that made him a Hollywood heartthrob. After just about a decade at the supernatural drama, Somerhalder took on some other vampire challenge with Netflix’s V Wars.
Since exchanging vows with Reed, 35, in 2015, Somerhalder has transitioned into generating documentaries about local weather trade, akin to 2020’s Kiss the Floor. He additionally teamed up along with his former TVD costar Paul Wesley in 2020 to release Brother’s Bond Bourbon, which takes inspiration from their fictional characters.
“I stepped away from acting a little over four years ago to raise my kids, build my companies and get these films launched,” Somerhalder defined to E! in November 2023.
Regardless of transferring clear of appearing, Somerhalder clarified why he has endured to go back to the highlight.
“I was asked why I care about this,” he added. “It is because I’m building my entire life and world to do that exact thing. I will be a rancher and building legacy brands, whether it’s my bourbon or my health and wellness company, and the regenerative agriculture and healthy soil management practices that I live by and our family lives by. That’s where my life was going. So when people say ‘Why do you care?’ That’s why I care. Because that’s who I am, that’s what I’m going to become.”