Ian Somerhalder Thinks His Performing Profession Is ‘within the Rear View Mirror’ (Unique)

Ian Somerhalder believes his performing days could also be behind him — however, there’s one factor that may make him focused on returning to Hollywood.

Talking completely with PEOPLE on the Environmental Media Affiliation (EMA) Awards Gala on Saturday, Oct. 26, the 45-year-old Misplaced alum opened up about leaving the leisure business behind when he and his spouse Nikki Reed moved out of Los Angeles to pursue a lifetime of farming.

“I feel it is within the rearview mirror. I do,” Somerhalder mentioned of his performing profession.

“Nicely, I dunno, we received the rights again for V Wars, however I simply do not know the way the hell we might ever make a TV present,” he added, referring to the one-season Netflix sci-fi thriller he and Reed starred in a number of years in the past. “We’re constructing three firms on the similar time, elevating children.”

Reed and Somerhalder tied the knot in 2015 and have since welcomed two children, Bodhi, 7, and a child boy, 1. The pair have been candid about their dedication to farming, wholesome residing and environmentalism, a part of the explanation they determined to attend the EMA Gala, which awards movie and TV tasks that enhance public consciousness of environmental points.

Final yr, the couple co-founded The Absorption Firm — a tech-powered complement model accessible on-line and at Erewhon shops.

Twilight star Reed, 36, shared comparable sentiments a few potential return to performing, telling PEOPLE on the Oct. 26 occasion: “I do not make any definitive statements about something. I do not have a look at something.”

“I work over 90 hours per week proper now. I am operating an organization full time and simply launched one other, a shared firm with the Absorption Firm,” she shared. “And I simply cannot think about with the ability to pivot my vitality away, however there isn’t any door closed.”

Somerhalder has beforehand been candid about his exit from leisure, even doing so whereas talking with PEOPLE in September in honor of the fifteenth anniversary of The Vampire Diaries and the twentieth anniversary of Misplaced.

“August nineteenth makes 5 years since I used to be professionally on digicam as an actor/producer,” he mentioned on the time. “I stepped away from that after V Wars to construct these firms, launch movies like Kiss the Floor, Widespread Floor and Floor Swell and increase my children.”

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The retired actor recalled telling his administration about desirous to make his exit from the enterprise, telling them: “‘Hey, that is the one factor I’ve ever recognized that is ever sustained my household, and I am strolling away from it,’ at this kind of peak, might have gone and executed something, however these partnerships imply far more to me.”

“I say this in all humility, in all respect, however I might a lot somewhat do that than go spend two months in some metropolis, capturing a TV present away from my household or transporting my household backwards and forwards,” he continued.

“When you attain a sure degree, you’re like, ‘Okay, I wish to deal with household and the way forward for farming and meals and vitality and the massive issues,'” Somerhalder added. “I needn’t chase awards and something that will make me really feel higher about myself.”