When Zap2it recently visited "The Vampire Diaries" set in Atlanta we had to promise to keep our lips zipped about just what kind of man the Original vampire will be.

Zap2it网站近期到正在亚特兰大拍摄的《吸血鬼日记》剧组探班，我们答应嘴巴会守得死死的不会透露吸血鬼元老到底是什么样的。

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I was watching Dark Shadows on TV and reading vampire comic books and seeing the original Dracula.

我那时看着电视里漆黑的阴影，翻着吸血鬼漫画，读着最原始版本的德古拉。

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Without his meaty jowls, he looks like he could be one of the desiccating "original" millennium-old vampires on the Vampire Diaries.

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In its original imagining, though, the premodern vampire differed from today's in one crucial respect: His condition wasn't contagious.

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