Daniel Gillies Talks The Originals and Other Projects He is Working On

Got a few interviews here for you with Daniel Gillies. He talks about Elijah, The Originals and more projects he is working on.

The first interview is with ET.
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Below is an excerpt:

ETonline: Have you seen the final cut of The Originals?

Gillies: I have seen most of it through ADR and I don’t mean to sound irreverent to any of the shows that have taken place before, but I’ve never been so excited about an episode of The Vampire Diaries. It’s such an exciting evening of TV — Julie Plec has done something really splendid here. I mean, damn it, we should be building monuments to her across North America. What she’s done here is sublime. It’s such a good episode of television, and furthermore, I was deeply proud of the relationship between Klaus and Elijah. Like most actors, I sort of despise everything I’ve ever done, but the moment I started watching his, I was gobsmacked. This thing takes you on an adventure through New Orleans and it’s a totally different energy from The Vampire Diaries. There’s this quality that Joseph and I wanted to achieve which is that of ancient resonance, and I feel like the pillars of the show — myself, Charles Michael Davis, Joseph Morgan, Clair Holt and Phoebe Tonkin — are performing at a certain pitch. Perhaps because we felt the importance of the episode, there is a certain caliber to it that just felt transcendently good. And that’s not just me complimenting my performance. It felt like we’ve been making The Originals for years judging from the quality. It’s just a great, epic night of television and whether we get picked up or not, they’ve succeeded in creating something I will always consider superb.
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The next interview is with Hollywood Life.
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Below is an excerpt:

“It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen,” Daniel tells me of the backdoor pilot. “It’s an amazing episode of television, it’s just monumental. Joseph and I worked very hard on [the brothers’] relationship, to bring as much history and depth and tragedy to them as we could. They’re cursed to walk this earth together, and now they’re searching for a clean slate. The tabula rasa. The new dawn.”