Nina Dobrev: 'I Hope Elena Smiles More in Season Three'

The season two finale of The Vampire Diaries in TONIGHT!

Show star Nina Dobrev sat down with PopWrap to dish about what you’ll see, what you won’t see and what’s coming in season three. Check it:

A rollercoaster of a finale: “Last year was twists and turns that you just didn’t expect. This year is more dramatically intense than physically given the severity of what happens. I remember the feeling of watching last year. Of being so completely blown out of the park and being so stricken by it. I have not seen the finale, so I don’t know what my reaction will be, but we’re the Vampire Diaries, you know it’s going to be crazy.”

Setting up for a new season: “There’s not just one �” there’s two or three kind of big twists that change the course of everyone’s lives, and they’re unexpected. It affects Damon & Elena hugely. It effects Stefan more than anyone would have imagined. Jeremy’s life is just completely turned around, and almost confusing �” you’ll see why soon enough. But it initiates these storylines that will flourish in season three.

The one thing that Elena should do: “I’d love for her to smile a bit. I know Vampire Diaries is intense and dramatic and people are dying, but I don’t know why they have to always be dying around Elena. Why she has to be the one always witnessing it or being affected by it.

She needs to lighten up because if she becomes this constantly crying character, it makes her weaker. She needs to begin to have a real life again, because right now she’s consumed by chaos. There needs to be a light at the end of the tunnel. She needs to feel again, and have relationships again because everyone in her life has been suffering so much, it’s becoming an action sequence as opposed to this girl going through her life.”

“As I Lay Dying” airs TONIGHT, May 12 @ 8PM ET/PT on The CW.