Fans were shocked during “The Vampire Diaries” backdoor pilot “The Originals” tonight, when the witch Sophie (Daniella Pineda) revealed that Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) is pregnant following her one-night-stand with Klaus (Joseph Morgan).
Yep — there’s a little hybrid-werewolf baby in Hayley’s belly, and Klaus plans to move his family to New Orleans to protect that child… and to infiltrate and conquer the vampire hierarchy that has turned the French Quarter into the supernatural epicenter.
Unbeknownst to fans, Phoebe Tonkin has been signed on for the spinoff since July, when she first joined “The Vampire Diaries” cast. “To finally have this episode air when it’s been talked about for nearly twelve months is crazy,” she says. “I’ve been dying to see it!”
But even as she made her appearances on “The Vampire Diaries,” the details of her role in the spinoff were kept strictly under wraps. She didn’t know that Hayley would be pregnant with Klaus’s baby until seven days before filming began on “The Originals.”
“It came completely out of left field,” she laughs. “No one knew anything. Even when Joseph and I were filming one of the other episodes — the episode where they conceive the baby — we didn’t know that we were conceiving a baby! So when Joseph and I were filming, we were like, ‘Maybe this happens, or maybe this happens,’ plotting out our spinoff ideas. We were way off base.”
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