The Originals Season Two Premiere Interview Round Up

The Cast Dishes on The Originals Season 2 Premiere

With the season two premiere of The Originals airing tonight, the beautiful Phoebe Tonkin (Hayley), Charles Michael Davis (Macel) ans executive producer, Michael Narducci spoke to various media outlets about the new season. We’ve gathered the latest interviews with the cast and previewed what they had to say. Take a look!

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In an interview with TV Line, Phoebe dished on Hayley’s new ally and baby Hope’s return and much more.

“Hayley has to create a safe-enough environment so that she’s not bringing her child into a war zone, which is what the Quarter is right now,” Tonkin acknowledges. “She wants to live happily ever after, and that’s probably not going to happen given the world we live in, but for Hayley, that’s what she wants.”

I know we’ll see Rebekah in Season 2, but will she and Hayley have any interactions? “Hayley has to pretend that she’s still in mourning, so she can’t just contact Rebekah and say, “Hey, send me some photos.” Hayley doesn’t even know what [Hope] looks like at the moment, but since the plan is to eventually get the baby back, I’m sure Hayley and Rebekah will run into each other again.”

Does Hayley have any friends like that in Season 2? …there’s definitely room for Hayley to create unusual friendships in Season 2. Hayley and Marcel have bonded a little bit, and there’s a really beautiful friendship budding between Hayley and Camille. They’re both the older females that aren’t witches, so they lean on each other a bit.

Hayley and Klaus? They now have a child together and they’re both hybrids, so do they have a new relationship?
It’s funny, they’re more or less partners in crime now. Now that she’s a hybrid, she doesn’t have anyone else to learn from, so Klaus is sort of becoming her mentor. He obviously cares enough about Hayley, and he wants to bring Hope back into a friendly environment, so they just want to protect each other right now.

What’s Hayley’s relationship like with the Crescent wolves now that she’s not one of them?
She definitely has to build up their trust again. They resent her for becoming a hybrid. She wants to be able to protect them as their leader, but they don’t trust her right now, especially given how close she is with Klaus.

Read the full interview with Phoebe at TV Line.

The series co-executive producer, Michael Narducci spoke to Access Hollywood about Hayley’s struggles as a hybrid in season two, Nina Dobrev crossing over this season and more.

“I think that Elijah sees how broken and devastated she is, not just by the loss of having to give up her child, but the loss of her pure blooded werewolf aspect,” Co-Executive Producer Michael Narducci told TV reporters at a screening of the show’s Season 2 premiere. “She’s now a hybrid and what that means is she’s no longer the pure wolf.”

“She’s devastated and she’s going through all the after effects that you would expect of someone recently becoming a vampire. On top of that, you know, you’ve got your werewolf, your wild impulses, your instinctive desire to hunt and kill and that’s accentuated by the fact that she’s a vampire, so she’s a mess,” he said.

Cami is feeling awful and like she could have done more to help prevent Hope’s “death.”

“We have a storyline in Episode 5 that will involve a flashback to the time of the Vikings and Nina Dobrev playing Tatia,” Narducci said.

she got to be in scenes with both of our leads — both Daniel [Gillies, who plays Elijah] and Joseph [Morgan, who plays Klaus] and we tell a story that will make you understand her fate, what happened to her, her relationship with both brothers and why what happened between her and the two brothers is so beautiful and also tragic.”

Read the full interview with Michael at AH.

Charles Michael Davis (Marcel) spilled some secrets about the new season to The Wrap. Take a look at the interview with the charming Originals star below.

Michael Narducci also spoke with Collider about The Originals season two premiere, flashbacks, crossovers and more,

What can you say about your overall story for Season 2?

MICHAEL NARDUCCI:  Our hope was that this would be the season of the return of the [family].  There is a lot of family stuff that we need to get out.  The big theme with this season is the past returning to haunt you, and enemies who are even more dangerous because they know you intimately….

How much will we learn about the Original family through flashbacks?

NARDUCCI:  We talked a lot about how Season 1 was this mob drama….there are going to be even more flashbacks this season.  You will get to see more of the Original family, at different ages, throughout those flashbacks. We’re really excited to get into where this family comes from, why they are the way they are, and what their relationships were like, not only with their parents, but with one another, and how has that led them to be as divided as they are.  There will be a lot of cool stuff.

Will we see more of Josh, and will he have a love interest?

NARDUCCI:  Without putting the cart before the horse, it’s very interesting to me, why Josh is sticking around in New Orleans.  He’s Marcel’s last guy from that old regime and that old community.  He’s trying to figure out what he’s fighting for and what this is all about.  What do we fight for, if not a home, if not our friends, if not for the people we love, both platonically and romantically?  Coming down the line, we are going to tell some really great romantic stories, and Josh has a really great story coming up.  That’s all I’ll say.

What can you say about where things are at with Marcel?

NARDUCCI:  There’s some really interesting stuff to be played with the history of New Orleans, who Marcel’s guys are, and how he rebuilt the city.  We’ve learned a little bit about Davina through flashback, we’ve obviously learned a lot about our Original family through flashback, and we have a really good idea for a Marcel flashback that’s gonna tie in some of our past faces.  I’m excited for that.

Will we see a more level-headed Klaus, this season?

NARDUCCI:  I think that, in the premiere, he was full of rage and painting with his victims’ blood.  If that’s level-headed, then yeah, we’ll see more of that.  And we’ll see this notion of trying to get people to do what he wants them to do, by pushing all their buttons in the right way.  I like that manipulator aspect of him.  He’s going to have to, at some point, confront his father.  There are dangerous and deadly confrontations on the horizon, but at the same time, we’ll get to see a different side of Klaus that illuminates who he really is, as a person, and why he is that way.

Read the full interview at COLLIDER.