Posted by Vee | April 28, 2011, 10:27 (EST) | 4 Comments
Category: TV Series
One of the big themes coming out of The Last Day press Q&A yesterday was the Originals – specifically, how Season 3 would be “The Year of the Originals.” KSiteTV touched on Julie Plec’s non-answer to whether Daniel Gillies and Joseph Morgan would be returning in Season 3, but with that heavy duty subtitle attached to next season, seems safe to assume that anything is possible. But in the now, it was interesting to hear Morgan and Gillies comment not only on playing such old and powerful characters but how they themselves dissected the parallels between Klaus and Elijah and the Salvatores, as well how they feel about being the “newbies” on set. And Julie Plec sheds some light on how the show has reached this point with the Originals:
Carina MacKenzie, Zap2It
‘The Vampire Diaries’: Season three will be the ‘year of the originals’
“We didn’t have the true mythology of how to kill an original worked out and then we introduced Elijah and freakin’ Dan Gillies walks in that door in the big old haunted house in the suit and he has the accent and everything about him is so great, and we were like ‘Well! We can’t make him easy to kill,’” Plec says. “We don’t want our characters to look stupid for not being able to get rid of him, so we just made it harder and harder until we reached the point where we were like, ‘Screw it, Originals are immortal!’ It’s honestly because of Dan and the work that he did.”
“Coming in, I guess you worry about coming in as a character who’s on the top of the food chain,” Morgan pontificated, “but everyone was very accommodating and it’s just a lot of fun. Even the scene [in “The Last Day”] with Ian where I get to get right in his personal space, it’s just a tremendous amount of fun on set. That’s one thing– when I got to Atlanta, I came and I watched some of the sixties dance. That was the first thing I watched, and just to see even Nina standing and talking to the camera guys and everyone high-fiving after the shots, I thought ‘Okay, this will be good’.”
“In the beginning, both Joseph [Morgan] and I were trying to figure out which [Salvatore] we were,” Gillies said. “Am I more like Damon or am I [like Stefan]? We couldn’t figure out which one. Actually, we’re sort of a combination of both things.” Morgan echoed the statement, adding, “Both of our characters carry aspects of both of [them], for sure.” The complicated relationship between the two brothers will be further explored in the present day, where things are a little different. “In the 1400s, there’s a different hierarchy going on between us than when we meet again in modern day,” Morgan said. “There’ll be a very different dynamic between the two of us.”
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