Daniel Gillies is the next star to step behind the camera on The Originals.
Talking with ET, the actor, who plays Elijah, opened up about the opportunity.
“It was something that I had wanted to do and it was something that I had seen Joseph Morgan do in the season before, so I was immediately and violently jealous,” he shared. “I thought, ‘Well, I’ve got to do that.’
Daniel adds, “And then Charles [Michael Davis] got signed up and I thought, ‘Well, if that hack is going to do it, now I’ve got to jump in.’”
So, who’s the worst to work with as a director? “I would say me. I’m just so resistant to direction.”
“I didn’t realize what an a**hole I was to direct until I directed me and I was like, ‘Oh! This is why everyone has got a problem with me!’ Like, I’m the worst,” Daniel says.
“Why am I contesting every line? I’m like, ‘Oh, my character wouldn’t say that,’ and then I had to come back to the monitors and yell at me.”
If you’ve been anxiously awaiting the great Hayley and Elijah romance to happen in the next Originals scene you see, you’re going to be disappointed.
While we know that their relationship was going to be filled with a bit of drama this season, actress Phoebe Tonkin admits that the entire relationship has been put on the back burner right now.
“As much as Hayley is happy to have [Elijah] back, her priority is still Hope’s safety,” she reveals. “She can’t focus on a romantic relationship that might become too time-consuming.”
Hope is all Hayley is focusing on right now.
“As her daughter gets older and becomes a little human being, Hayley becomes even more protective,” Phoebe adds. “So that’s her focus, to protect her kid.”
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It was a Pretty Little Liars reunion at Entertainment Weekly’s Celebration of SAG Award Nominees party last night (January 28) in Los Angeles.
Troian Bellisario and Lucy Hale met up inside the bash looking amazing as always and made all our Sparia hearts so happy.
“Sparia forever. But even more so #trucyforever,” Lucy shared on her Instagram.
Troian, with her new short hair, was also spotted with her new hubby, Suits actor Patrick J. Adams inside the bash.
Siblings Rico and Raini Rodriguez, The Flash‘s Candice Patton and Danielle Panabaker, Katie Cassidy, Daniel Gillies, Annalise Basso, Tahj Mowry, and Kiersey Clemons were also spotted inside.
FYI: Tahj wore a DSquared2 suit, Bar III shirt and Mezlan shoes. Lucy is wearing Julien MacDonald. Annalise is wearing a Paule Ka dress.
Paul Wesley gets a kiss from girlfriend Phoebe Tonkin inside Entertainment Weekly’s Comic-Con Bash held at Float, Hard Rock Hotel on Saturday night (July 23) in San Diego, Calif.
The cute couple, who celebrated his 34th birthday during 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, joined both of the casts of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals inside the party.
Ian Somerhalder, his wife Nikki Reed, Zach Roerig, Kat Graham, Candice King, Matt Davis and Michael Malarkey met up with Daniel Gillies, Charles Michael Davis, Joseph Morgan, Yusuf Gatewood, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Riley Voelkel and showrunner Julie Plec during the weekend’s events.
Both casts are also pictured at SiriusXM’s Entertainment Weekly Radio Channel earlier in the day.
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Phoebe Tonkin, Joseph Morgan and Charles Michael Davis take a second out of signing autographs for fans for a pic during 2016 San Diego Comic Con on Saturday afternoon (July 23) in San Diego, Calif.
The three Originals stars joined Daniel Gillies, Yusuf Gatewood and Riley Voelkel, plus executive producers Julie Plec and Michael Narducci at the event just ahead of the panel.
The upcoming season will make a time jump, a short video confirmed at the panel (via TVLine) and shows Hayley caring for an older Hope.
“When we met Hayley, all she ever wanted was family,” Phoebe shared. “Through the events that happened, she created a family on her own with her daughter. I don’t think she feels alone – one, because she has five bodies in the back of her car – and because she has a purpose, a family-driven purpose.”
Julie added about losing Danielle Campbell and Leah Pipes, “It’s a hard thing to explain. You start to feel a redundancy of heroes. If you continue down a certain storyline, you’ll end up taking people in a direction that will isolate them. You get the urge to mix things up and to make things very tragic � so that you can always feel fresh, and you don’t have nine people telling the same story. � We needed to pull the family as tightly together as possible, and excise some of the characters who might conflict with [that plan].”
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Chris Wood and Hanna Mangan-Lawrence enjoy a romantic dinner in these cute new Instagram photos!
The Containment co-stars, who also happen to be dating, met up with The Originals‘ Daniel Gillies and his lovely wife Rachael Leigh Cook in Paris.
“Date night in Paris,” Hanna captioned the group photo.
The guys are in town for some conventions. Chris attended the Bite Me I’m Famous 4 over the weekend, while Daniel is gearing up for Love & Blood Itacon 4Ever in Florence, Italy later this week.
Check out more photos from Chris and Hanna‘s trip abroad below!
Kat Graham looks gorgeous with braids while attending the 2016 BloodyNightCon Europe on Saturday (May 14) in Brussels, Belgium.
The 26-year-old actress was joined by her Vampire Diaries co-stars Michael Malarkey and Matt Davis.
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Also in attendance that day were The Originals hotties Daniel Gillies and Charles Michael Davis.
“I’ve never staked a vampire on the show ever in the seven years I’ve been on in it, so I was really excited to finally get to stake a vampire,” Kat recently told Cambio.com about staking Michael‘s Enzo. “I’m all about girl power.”
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