Ian Somerhalder Says Acting Is 'In The Rearview Mirror,' Loves Farm Life | TMZ TV - video Dailymotion

Don’t expect to see Ian Somerhalder onscreen again any time soon -- he's put acting on the back burner for now, with no plans to jump back in.

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00:00If you were hoping for a Vampire Diaries reunion with Ian Somerhalder, too bad!

00:07Because he's busy for the rest of his life doing this!

00:11Okay, hugging horses does seem better than drinking blood.

00:15But will we ever see Ian on TV again?

00:18He's done.

00:19So he, in 2019, he moved out of L.A. with his wife, Nikki Reed.

00:25They have two young kids.

00:26He didn't want to be involved in Hollywood anymore.

00:29He lives on, like, a farm.

00:30With dirt and animals and bathtubs to wash the dirt off the animals.

00:35Unless those tubs are for people.

00:37Oh boy!

00:39Yowie!

00:40Wowie!

00:41We need to move to a farmstead!

00:42They both were huge.

00:44Nikki Reed was so famous on Twilight and he was famous on the Vampire Diaries.

00:48And then they just disappeared.

00:50There's something so admirable about somebody who can give up a lifestyle where they're that successful at

00:57and then just choose the values they want in life.

01:01But doesn't Ian miss Hollywood just a little?

01:03When you film a movie or, like, even, like, a Hallmark movie, it takes, like, 20 days to film.

01:08So, like, just go do your movie and then go back to your farm.

01:10But what if he doesn't want to do that?

01:12Because then you're looking for the next movie and you've got agents and all this.

01:16To Siobhan's point, he could easily be a Hallmark star.

01:18Make one Christmas movie a year, he would be so famous.

01:21A vampire Christmas?

01:23Yes!

01:24A big-time city girl moves back home and falls in love with the small-town vampire.

01:29But will he bite her underneath the mistletoe on Christmas?

01:32Find out this December.

01:34So, congrats on ditching Hollywood for the farm, you two!

01:38E-I-E-I, no more acting!