The Originals – Riley Voelkel Upped to Series Regular; What’s Ahead in Season 3
Last night’s Season 2 finale of “The Originals” took a slightly different approach, ending rather quietly and quite beautifully instead of leaving fans with a cliffhanger as we await Season 3. Along with word that Riley Voelkel (“Freya”) is now a series regular, we have a few teases of what’s ahead in said upcoming season from executive producer Michael Narducci, including the first word on a “new arrival” in town.
Below are the highlights; be sure to hit the EW link for all the gory details.
“Freya is going to stick around and help raise [Hope],” Narducci told TVLine. “She’s allowing Rebekah the chance to go have a life by sticking around. I’m really excited to see what role this new sister is going to have in the family and how she may play off of both of her brothers. I’m really excited about that family dynamic.”
He relayed to EW that “Freya is going to make good on her promise to help that child grow and have control over herself. Even though Hope is a first-born Mikaelson and has a lot of power as a witch, Freya too is a first-born Mikaelson and might be just the person to help Hope figure out who she is and how to grow up and be a healthy person.”
In addition, “The White Oak Stake as we have known it for many, many seasons is destroyed forever. The question now becomes: Does that mean that there’s no more White Oak in all the universe? Does that mean that there can’t be a witchy workaround where magic will always find a way and there might be some new sapling as there was on ‘Vampire Diaries’? And then we have also said in the mythology of ‘Vampire Diaries’ that a strong enough witch can kill anyone, even an immortal all-powerful Original, so I’m not suggesting that our heroes are without threat, but the same White Oak Stake that we have seen time and time again is now gone for good, and we will be addressing that going forward.”
As for who might be next season’s “big bad,” Narducci indicated, “That’s what we’ve been talking about in the writers’ room for a very long time now. I think when we are finally able to reveal what’s happening, it should make a lot of sense and feel like the next stage in what this family will need to go through and deal with. It’s pretty frightening, and we’re having a lot of fun with it.”
We haven’t seen the last of Vincent (Yusuf Gatewood) either. “We’re definitely going to explore a lot of stuff with Vincent. We’re going to see his past and where he’s from and why he’s such an interesting character: What led him to walk away from magic, why he feels obligated to remain in New Orleans and be a part of everything that’s going on in his city.”
Lastly, what about the Marcel/Davina relationship? Is it salvageable? “Now [that] his adopted daughter, Davina, is becoming the regent of the nine covens of New Orleans, she’s going to have a definite perspective on vampires that’s going to perhaps put her at odds with vampires in general and perhaps Marcel, who’s going to reclaim his leadership position. Klaus is seemingly retiring to focus on caring for his family, but of course that’s not who Klaus is so Marcel’s going to find himself in a really tricky place, caught between Klaus Mikaelson the manipulator on one hand and Davina and the witches on the other hand. And then there is going to be a new arrival into the town of New Orleans, and I think that it’s going to highlight Marcel’s special relationship with this family in a way that’s going to bring Marcel back to the forefront.”
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