The Vampire Diaries: Keeping Klaus Bad

IGN: You’ve mentioned how you really hope your character doesn’t get softened – that he pretty much stays the bad guy.

Morgan: Yeah, I think we’re all on the same page, the writers and the creators of the show. We certainly want to bring in a more human side to him. I feel like the character’s got to evolve, and as the show moves on we’ve got to see more layers to him, more levels and more of his insecurities coming out and things [like that]. But I think to have him hanging out at the Mystic Grill with Jeremy and Matt, and it’s “All is forgiven!”, that’s a little bit of a stretch for me. [Laughs] And I think it would become less interesting. I feel like even with the idea of bringing in a romantic interest for Klaus, I feel like he’s still going to be Klaus. He still has all of this angst and rage and all of these things and this dysfunction, bred from his family. I think it’s more interesting if you add in the humanity on top of that, but he’s still this guy, you know? It’s more of a struggle. Yeah, I really hope that they don’t kind of substitute one for the other, that they just keep adding these things.

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Joseph Morgan THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Interview; Hopes the Writers Bring Back Klaus for Another Season

One of the biggest bad-asses on television is Original vampire Klaus on The CW drama series The Vampire Diaries. Played by Joseph Morgan, Klaus likes to use his charm to wreak havoc all over Mystic Falls, and makes life very unpleasant for Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder), Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), and all of their friends and family.

While at the TCA Winter Press Tour, actor Joseph Morgan talked about getting to play a character that’s lived through so many different eras (of which he’s enjoyed 1920?s Chicago the most), bringing the human element to the evil behavior that Klaus has become known for, that he’s been pushing for a love interest for some time now, that he hopes he’ll get to hang around on the show for awhile, and how he’d love to do a guest spot as a human survivor on the hit zombie series The Walking Dead. Check out what he had to say after the jump:

Question: When you play a character that’s lived for so long, how do you approach the backstory for that much time?

JOSEPH MORGAN: It does go on forever. There’s a certain amount that’s developed for you, through the flashbacks, and then you fill in some of the gaps. I tend not to make up too many solid events that he’s been through because then that informs what I’m playing, and then that’s redefined by the writers anyway. When I joined the show, I didn’t know that Stefan and Klaus had a history together. My first few scenes that I was playing with him, I had no idea that it was going to go back and that you would find out that we knew each other, for years. Back in the ‘20s, we were friends. So, it’s useful, to a certain extent, to make backstory and think about that, but to create anything that’s too solid is detrimental, when you’re playing things, later on.

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