“Hayley is, by no means, the
Cinderella in the Klaus love story. Hayley is a girl who’s pretty
tough, fiery, independent … a survivor in her own right who got
drunk, had sex and got knocked up. She’s going to have her own
journey. She’s not really meant to be a threat to Klaus’ love
life.”
Star Joseph Morgan also had a few
spoilery teases to share about The Originals.
It looks… so different from
TVD.
I think in terms of the looks of
it, I know the director, Chris Grismer, really wanted to bring out
the color of New Orleans, so it retained some of that kind of shadowy
quality of Vampire Diaries, but it absolutely has more colors and
more vibrancy to it. It’s less muted. And then, also tonally, it’s
got a more adult tone to it. It’s a little darker. Vampire Diaries
is much more of a coming-of-age story, and this is more about people,
supernatural creatures that really embrace what they are, who love to
be vampires. So it’s a little different, yeah.
It’s hard to come of age when
you’re all hundreds of years old. Are we talking about adults here?
Absolutely, yeah, that’s true.
There’s no prom in The Originals.
The Originals
What can you tell us about the
plotline [starting off]?
The French Quarter of New Orleans
was a town that Klaus built with Marcel, his protégé. And when
Klaus and his family were forced to leave New Orleans behind, Marcel
stayed and built it as he saw fit. And he managed to rise up in power
and control the witches and drive out the werewolves and really run
the town. So when Klaus hears that one of the witches is plotting
against him, his ego gets the better of him. And he goes back to New
Orleans to find out who that is and to nip it in the bud. And in
doing so, he runs into his old friend Marcel and starts to realize
that this guy, this vampire has got everything he wanted.
And Marcel is now running this
town, in a way is king of this town, and Klaus is still scrabbling in
Mystic Falls, thinking, “What am I doing? Wait a second. This is
something I want.” And he’s prone to jealousy and envy and all of
those more negative types of traits anyway. So I think that Marcel is
a little bit of a show-off, shall we say, in terms of showing Klaus
what he has and what Klaus could have had. And so, Klaus rises to
that bait. He doesn’t like it, so he wants it back.
If we’re talking strict
hierarchy, it was Klaus who turned Marcel. So technically, they
shouldn’t be each other’s equals, but is there a power
struggle at this point between the two of them?
Well, I mean, Klaus is by far the
more powerful being. He’s an Original vampire. Plus he’s a
hybrid, so he has that on Marcel. But Marcel runs the town, so he has
all of the vampires in the town who work for him. That’s over a
hundred vampires. Plus, he’s in control of the witches. None of the
witches can do magic without his say-so. So that’s a huge.
What kind of stories do you see
there being told [on] The Originals?
I would hope over the course of the
seasons that there would be potential for it to be a story of Klaus’s
salvation. I think from the point where we brought him in from where
he started, and then those little cracks we’ve seen in his kind of
villain demeanor, I think there’s potential there to be redeemed.
And I think this whole season of Vampire Diaries has been a setup.
I love the scene where Caroline
says to him, “Anyone who is capable of love is capable of being
saved.” If I were to make the decisions — which I don’t —
that would be the buzz line for him, for the season. But our
storyline, the Original storyline has always been family and the ties
that bind us and the idea that we can do these horrible, terrible
things to each other, but no one, woe betide the person who steps on
our toes, who comes in trying to challenge one of us, then we’re
all thick as thieves.
So I think it would really be the
power struggle with the family and everyone else outside the family
and also the dynamics within the family. I mean, it’s on a more
epic scale. Even the pilot teased a war between the witches and the
vampires. So I’d very much like to explore this genre, but on a
more kind of epic scale, like less coming of age and more like this.
Will we get flashbacks in the
[new] first episode?
Not in the new pilot. There’s so
much there, coming to a new city and introducing all these new
characters, but should we go to series, I think, I’m almost
positive we’ll have flashbacks. I mean, there’s a wealth of
history to explore there. So yeah, absolutely the series, but no, not
in the pilot.
As a character, do you see Klaus
going back to Mystic Falls if the New Orleans thing doesn’t work
out? Can he just sort of go back and hang?
I mean, I don’t personally. I
mean I understand his reason for staying behind in Mystic Falls so
long with unfinished business, and we’ve seen him pack his stuff
about three times and then not quite leave. For me, the idea of a
1,000-year-old being choosing Mystic Falls as a place to live or to
settle down is not as realistic as somewhere like New York or London
or Paris or New Orleans. I think he’s showing himself to be a man
of culture, a man who appreciates art and music and all of these
things as well as graphic displays of violence. So I think certainly
a city which embodies all of that would be more likely to be his
permanent home.
If you could take someone with
you from the Mystic Falls world into this world —
What are you fishing for now with
this question? If I could take one of the random characters from
Mystic Falls, who would I take with me? Come on, what are you looking
for here? I would take Sheriff Forbes, definitely. No. Obviously,
Klaus would take Caroline. I think that’s the person who he’s
interested in. He’s seen the thing through with Stefan in terms of
their friendship, and he’s realized that Stefan isn’t the ripper
anymore. He fought that stuff so hard when Klaus tried to bring him
back to who he was, and I think there’s unfinished business with
him and Caroline. So I think he would absolutely if he could take one
person take her, but then you knew that anyway.
As a character, it seems like
Klaus can take or leave Mystic Falls and not feel so bad about it.
But as you, the actor, how do you feel about leaving TVD?
This show, it goes without saying,
it’s changed my life. It’s utterly opened me up to an audience
who probably would have never seen anything I’ve done, and now, it
seems like everything I’ve ever done is on YouTube. So I’m
eternally grateful to the show. I think I’ve been playing sort of
B-storylines for a long time because there’s only so much of Klaus
we can see in Vampire Diaries. Because the show is about Damon and
Stefan and Elena, and it should be about them. It started about
those, and it should finish about those. And I don’t think there’s
room to expand more upon my character in that show.
So for me, I’m really excited to
be moving into a show that we can learn more about him, and I’m
really hopeful that they will exploit the crossover angle as much as
they can. I’m perfectly willing, should my schedule allow it, for
Klaus to make sporadic appearances in Mystic Falls, and I think they
would be missing a trick if they didn’t bring a few of the
characters, perhaps even the one I talked about earlier, over to New
Orleans for an episode or two at least.
But yeah, personally, I think this
is the right time. I feel like if Klaus stays in Mystic Falls, and
our heroes don’t kill him — because he’s never going to be on
the same page entirely as our heroes; they’re always going to be at
odds — it just makes them look weak and stupid. I don’t think
anybody wants the heroes to look weak and stupid. So I think it’s
time for Klaus to branch out. I think for me as an actor as well. The
challenge of having more screen time and heading up a show is
certainly one.
So the fourth time he packs his
bag, he’s really leaving, man.
He’s really leaving now. No one
believes him because he’s cried wolf so many times, but yeah, he’s
really going. He’s packed up his stuff, and he’s heading out.
Do you miss the previous episode of the
pilot episode of Originals? we'll here is my short recap. after Klaus
begun to search about the two witch who starting the rebellion to him
he meet first his diabolic protege which was Marcel that it start an
tension in the place but after that they hugging to each other in the
tension just fade away. We meet April an witch who had an mission to
destroy Marcel dominion in New Orleans but she need help Klaus that
with her sister Jean was in the plan that she offer himself to
sacrifice just to perform an spell and that is the night that her
older sister die in the spot of what Marcel punishment.
After that April was determined to kill
Marcel and also to discover who is the person tracking who using the
spell or a magic. When Klaus discovered that he was a father Elijah
wanted to continue what i mean to reboot the family to start in New
Orleans but Klaus was able to not in the good mood because it appear
wanted to kill Hayley and the son.
