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"We love The Vampire Diaries here at Digital Spy (like, possibly a little too much) so you can imagine how excited we were when we heard about the show&amp;#039;s spinoff - which will focus on Klaus and the Original family in New Orleans. Yeah, I know, amazing. Anyway, this week&amp;#039;s episode of The Vampire Diaries (airing tomorrow on ITV2, fact fans) will act as a pilot for the series, so we called up Joseph Morgan for a quick chat about what the show&amp;#039;s about, what it means for Klaus and Caroline, and also what we can expect from the final few episodes of this season of The Vampire Diaries...  Are you excited about &amp;#039;The Originals&amp;#039; finally airing? You must have been looking forward to it for a while! &amp;quot;Yeah, definitely - ever since I signed on and certainly since I read the script and we went up to New Orleans to film it and everything. But yeah, absolutely - there&amp;#039;s been loads of anticipation and even before it was ever a real thing there were all these fanmade trailers about it, so I just hope now it lives up to people&amp;#039;s expectations. I&amp;#039;m excited for everyone to see all the work we put in!&amp;quot; So can you give us an overview about what this episode is about? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s set in New Orleans - New Orleans is a town where the Original family used to live at around the turn of the century. We actually built the town - myself and my young prot\u00E9g\u00E9 Marcel - and then my family and I had to leave unexpectedly. So while I&amp;#039;m in Mystic Falls I hear that some witches there are plotting against me - they&amp;#039;re starting to make a move against me - so I go back to New Orleans. The idea plays on my mind that someone is trying to play against me or do something against me and my ego, my vanity gets the better of me and I go back to see who it is. And in doing that, I open up a whole can of worms where my young prot\u00E9g\u00E9 is now running New Orleans, running the town, and he&amp;#039;s got the humans to look the other way, he&amp;#039;s controlling the witches, he&amp;#039;s driven out the werewolves, he&amp;#039;s got the whole town in the palm of his hand. I see that and I go, &amp;#039;Wait a minute, that should be me - I was the one who built this town with him&amp;#039;. What the episode is about is me realising, &amp;#039;Wait a second, I want this - I want what he&amp;#039;s got&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Now The Originals has been picked up to become a series on its own, what will that be about? &amp;quot;I think the overriding theme of our storylines within The Vampire Diaries has always been about family. We can do terrible things to our family members but woe betide the person from outside who comes in and tries to mess with us! And so I think that&amp;#039;s going to be a theme of the series - family. And then also the sort of power struggle. Vampire Diaries is kind of a coming of age story, and I think The Originals is definitely more sort of epic. It&amp;#039;s even in the backdoor pilot that you&amp;#039;ll see - it&amp;#039;s almost like a war is brewing. It&amp;#039;s on a grander scale - it&amp;#039;s less about prom and more about a war between the vampires and the witches. So it&amp;#039;s good!&amp;quot;  You mentioned family just then - the Mikaelsons must be one of the most dysfunctional families ever! I mean, Klaus just betrayed Rebekah with Silas and the cure - what&amp;#039;s going on with them at the moment? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s probably at its most fragile since he daggered her in the &amp;#039;20s, I think! She&amp;#039;s absolutely done with him, and he is with her. Essentially they&amp;#039;ve reached a point where they just don&amp;#039;t want the same thing at all. Rebekah, I think, wants the cure - she wants to be human again, she wants to be loved, she&amp;#039;s looking for all of these feelings. And Klaus, he wants something entirely different. He embraces his true nature and he thinks the very things that she loves are the things that make her weak. I suppose that&amp;#039;s ironic, because he loves her and probably his vulnerability in terms of family is one of the things that make him weak. But yeah, they&amp;#039;re not in a good place right now. Elijah wants her to come to New Orleans with him so they can all be together and they can tackle this thing that&amp;#039;s going on down there as a family, and I don&amp;#039;t think Rebekah&amp;#039;s very keen on that idea.&amp;quot; You mentioned Klaus&amp;#039;s vulnerability in terms of family, but we&amp;#039;ve also seen him vulnerable in terms of Caroline recently. What&amp;#039;s coming up for them? &amp;quot;Well, this is interesting, isn&amp;#039;t it? I would say with the tremendous outpouring of support from the fans for The Originals, the one thing that&amp;#039;s been in question the whole time is what&amp;#039;s going to happen with Caroline now? Because two characters, each on different shows - you&amp;#039;re putting an ocean between them. But I&amp;#039;ll say this - I know that there&amp;#039;s no other love interest in the near future for Klaus. I know that he&amp;#039;s very much still enamoured with Caroline Forbes - he&amp;#039;s still very much interested in that.  &amp;quot;And I think there&amp;#039;s a huge amount of crossovers planned for the two shows. The whole idea is to expand this world which [executive producers] Julie [Plec] and Kevin [Williamson] created, and so I think that I would be really surprised if we didn&amp;#039;t see the characters crossing over. Or at least pen pals! That would be very Klaus, wouldn&amp;#039;t it? Very kind of old school, writing her beautiful letters, beautiful calligraphy, from New Orleans. But I can also reveal that there&amp;#039;s reference to it in the &amp;#039;Originals&amp;#039; episode, which I think there needed to be. It&amp;#039;s not just like, &amp;#039;Oh, wait a minute, what happened about Caroline? Why isn&amp;#039;t he concerned about that?&amp;#039; And I think there are scenes coming up... Also I know that Julie and all the writers are very much aware of how important that is to the fans, and it will be treated with respect and with care.&amp;quot;  It&amp;#039;s interesting you say there are no other love interests in Klaus&amp;#039;s near future, because Hayley&amp;#039;s in &amp;#039;The Originals&amp;#039; and last time she was with Klaus they shared an amorous moment, shall we say! But there&amp;#039;s nothing going on with them? &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t wait for you to see the episode - it&amp;#039;s going to blow your mind! Do you know what, it&amp;#039;s made reference to in the episode, what happened between them. I don&amp;#039;t think there&amp;#039;s a future in that way for those characters, but what we&amp;#039;ve done is given a complicated history to them so already there&amp;#039;s something between them, which makes things a little more complicated. I think it&amp;#039;s just making things a little more interesting - it&amp;#039;s stirring the pot a little more.  &amp;quot;And also I like that whole storyline. I feel like he is extremely flawed, Klaus, and the fact that he would sort of be keeping himself pure for Caroline - it&amp;#039;s not realistic in terms of the character. I think no matter how much he loves her he still makes huge mistakes and errors of judgement all the time - talk about not learning from the last thousand years! But yeah, I think it only serves to make things more interesting and make him more rounded as a character.&amp;quot; We&amp;#039;re almost at the end of this season of The Vampire Diaries now - what hints can you give us about Silas and the cure in these last couple episodes? &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re actually shooting scenes from the last three episodes at the moment, filling in all the gaps, everything they missed. And I can tell you... I mean, when I read the finale the main thing I wanted to know is, &amp;#039;Who&amp;#039;s going to get the cure?&amp;#039; That&amp;#039;s what I was the most excited about - who on Earth is going to get the cure? And I can tell you it&amp;#039;s not what you think. I can tell you that it&amp;#039;s going to be... I think it&amp;#039;s going to be a surprise for everyone. It certainly took me unawares. There&amp;#039;s also some appearances in the coming episodes which people should get very excited about. There&amp;#039;s some characters that people should be excited to see.&amp;quot; Some familiar faces? &amp;quot;[Ums and ahhs] Possibly some familiar faces, yes! I&amp;#039;m on the line now, you know what I mean?&amp;quot; I guess I don&amp;#039;t want to get you in trouble! &amp;quot;Exactly!&amp;quot; The &amp;#039;Originals&amp;#039; episode of The Vampire Diaries will air on Tuesday (April 30) at 9pm on ITV2. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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