Teen Vogue
Fall 2000
It's not your average ex-model who could claim, with a perfectly straight face, that he's read way too much Nietzsche and get away with it. But Ian Somerhalder, 21, clearly expects to get away with all that and then some. [Gotta love that line!] He calls Young Americans, the prep-school series on which he plays faculty brat Hamilton Fleming, "very Shakespearean, very Twelfth Night." And he's sort of right: The show features such typically Elizabethan plot devices as star-crossed (and cross-dressed) lovers.