EW: I was going to say “Welcome back,” but I think you guys have been back filming longer than most.
JOSEPH MORGAN: We’re filming pretty much non-stop, a lot of nights, a lot of fights. I’m actually on my way to rehearse a huge stunt fight sequence, which is kind of exciting. We’re trying to up the action in season two and make it even more dynamic. It’s hard because I feel like the writers and producers, Julie [Plec] especially, set the bar pretty high in season one, so where do you go from there? It has to escalate, you know?
I don’t know that Klaus can top beating like 100 vampires in that one scene last year.
You know, I did a body count, and I think I killed like 26 in the end. Because they were all laid out and Diego set them on fire in a little scene while Marcel and I watched from the balcony, and I thought, “I just want to count them and see how many I did kill in the end.” Yeah, we’ll see. I don’t know. I think maybe he can top it.
He can do at least 30.
At least 30. We’ll see.
Well, when we pick up four months after the season one finale, one of the big changes is that Hayley is now a hybrid. Will that help her relationship with Klaus in any way? Bring them closer?
In a way, I suppose, yeah. He’s kind of a reluctant mentor. He’s encouraged by his brother to talk to Hayley, to help Hayley, because Hayley’s incredibly lost. I think it’s one thing for Klaus to have to give away his daughter, but Hayley gave birth to her, and it’s sort of another thing altogether, I think, for Hayley. So Hayley’s not taking it very well at all. And Elijah, I think, feels very distant from her and worries about her, and so he encourages Klaus, being the only other hybrid now, to talk to Hayley, to help her understand what it is that she’s going through and how she can deal with the thing that she’s become. So Klaus rather reluctantly does that. I would say that it helps their relationship, but it’s not like everything is just fine after that. There’s a long way to go for all of these characters, I think. They’re truly troubled, these creatures.
Another big change this season is the return of both of Klaus’ parents. We know that both of them present a very real physical danger to Klaus, but which one do you think is more of an emotional threat?
I go back and forth on that. It’s hard to say. I’m going to tell you what I’m feeling at the moment is that his father is more of an emotional threat. As a boy, all [Klaus] wanted was his father’s affirmation, and I think just having that hatred from his father and being made to feel he was weak and not good enough and not knowing why for so long, why his father or the man he thought was his father hated him, I think that was truly disturbing. So as much as he despises Mikael, we saw back in Vampire Diaries when he managed to kill his father, when he finally managed to put the White Oak Stake in him and Mikael’s body was burning up, he wasn’t rejoicing. He was crying. He was upset, deeply, deeply upset, because he would never get that love and affirmation that he so desperately wanted from his father, and somehow, Mikael still has this emotional chokehold on him.
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