Joseph Morgan

Right.

On the television show, played by Joseph Morgan, he is revamped into this highly charismatic, deeply damaged immigrant patriarch of an entire family of original vampires.

The television show became a global phenomenon, and riding this massive wave of free multi-million dollar marketing, the publisher, HarperTeen, saw an opportunity.

Of course they did.

[laughs] It's like musical chairs.

And Joseph Morgan, who was cast as the terrifying villain Klaus, ended up marrying Persia White, who played Bonnie's mother.

It's an incredibly tangled web.

Everyone is connected to everyone else, both on screen and off.

This is a big one.

Julie Plec desperately wanted Joshua Jackson, who played Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek, a show Kevin Williamson created, to play Klaus, the original vampire.

Now, over 200 actors auditioned for this highly coveted role, and it ultimately went to a relative unknown British actor named Joseph Morgan.

Discussing the butterfly effect of this specific casting choice is genuinely mind-bending when you look at the economics of the CW Network.

He was writing in the present day, and that's one of the things that made the cosmic horror scarier at the time.

As we speak, Kim and I have decided, and I'm talking about just within the last few days, we started revisiting the originals, which we had not seen in a long time, and I remember really enjoying the originals, and Joseph Morgan in particular.

He is awesome.

He...