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"The Originals" star Joseph Morgan
Can Klaus and Rebekah work together on The Originals?
The often warring siblings will be forced to put aside their differences -- at least temporarily -- as they embark on a mission to rescue their brother, held captive in Marcel and Davina's hideout. But with years and years of history between Rebekah and Klaus' former protege complicating matters, things may prove a tad more difficult (not to mention his unborn baby).
"I feel like if he could make [the Rebekah/Marcel relationship] serve him, then he's maybe more in favor of it," Joseph Morgan tells The Hollywood Reporter of Klaus' mindset. "But at the moment it gets him nothing."
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In the Oct. 15 episode of The Vampire Diaries spinoff, Klaus discovers key intel about a major player within Marcel's inner circle, putting his plan to unravel Marcel's empire from the inside into motion. Morgan talks to THR about Klaus and Marcel's history, getting Elijah back and teaming up with Rebekah.
We learned quite a bit about Klaus' history with Marcel (Charles Michael Davis), particularly how they first met. What aspects of their backstory most surprised you?
A few things. The way that they met maybe didn't surprise me, just pleased me. I thought that was one of the most wonderful bits of flashbacks we've ever done, including The Vampire Diaries. Finding him as a young boy and then him living with us. I thought that was a really wonderful piece of story, the way I rescued him. I suppose the thing that surprised me the most was after that romantic connection between [Marcel] and Rebekah (Claire Holt) when I gave him the choice, he chose not to undagger [Rebekah] so he could become a vampire. That scene by the way, when Rebekah asked, "What day is it?" after I undagger her, and I say it's been 50 years, Klaus is so devilish in that moment.
Marcel's choice to become a vampire and not undagger Rebekah shined a light on who he was at that time ...
It really humanized him well, I thought. The human Marcel was much less guarded, much more open than we've seen vampire Marcel I think.
Why is Klaus so against the Marcel/Rebekah pairing and do you think he'll ever come around?
First of all Klaus is incredibly possessive over his siblings' love. And you'll see in the future, if either of them spend too much time or affection on someone else, he doesn't like it. He wants to be the center of their world and it really comes from the feeling of not enough affirmation or love as a child -- especially from his parents, his father particularly. He really, really loves Rebekah and no one's ever good enough for her. And for Marcel, that's his friend and the person he brought in as a son. Now that they're starting something special, Klaus feels left out. He's really insecure about that.
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It's a lost cause then?
I don't know. I feel like if he could make it serve him, then he's maybe more in favor of it. But at the moment it gets him nothing -- other than less attention from his sister and Marcel so he doesn't like it.
Now, Rebekah and Klaus are teaming up against Marcel in their attempt to save Elijah (Daniel Gillies). How does that affect their bond?
We saw at the end of the second episode Klaus admitting he gave Elijah to Marcel and that that was a mistake. That was sort of an apology or as close to an apology that we're going to get from him. In this moment where we left them last, they're united and that's a really lovely place for them to be in. That's the unity of family right there. They both want to get their other brother back. I'm not sure how pleased Elijah's going to be with Klaus when he does come back, but that's another story.
Klaus said in the last episode that he always has a plan, so how does he go about getting his brother back?
In episode three you're going to really see Klaus put a plan into effect. The whole episode we're going to see the mechanics of that being put together. We're also going to learn a bit more history about Marcel's relationship with his Nightwalkers, a little information about his one of them in particular. We're going to learn a bit more history about how he became a Nightwalker, how he teamed up with Marcel and what kind of loyalty their relationship has.
While Klaus and Rebekah are trying to save Elijah, Marcel and Davina (Danielle Campbell) are figuring out how to kill Originals, but they don't know that Klaus is sired to Marcel. How close do they get to figuring out a way?
One thing we learned from Vampire Diaries that Marcel isn't aware of yet is what happens when you do kill an Original vampire. [Marcel]'s going to be disappointed when he finds out every vampire that Klaus turned dies also. So they're going to have to find a way around that. You'll have to watch to see how close they come to it or whether they manage to do that, but it's certainly an interesting dynamic between her and Marcel. It'll be interesting to see how much power she has and why she has all that power.
Should we expect to see Klaus interacting with Davina anytime soon?
We're going to share the screen in episode four. That's when our characters meet.
If Klaus were to take back the throne from Marcel, what would be his first order of business?
I'm not sure. It's interesting isn't it? What happens after that? The thing about Klaus is he's always going to have enemies because he has this way of making them. So I think he would use that [power] to protect himself. And then his focus, I hope, will move more toward the baby and protecting and raising his child. If he was to take Marcel's place, I'm not sure how loyal those vampires would be to Klaus. Or perhaps he could just redecorate the compound. Change it up a little bit, possibly put in more mirrors knowing Klaus.
The Originals airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets ebbed in holiday-thinned trade Monday as investors wait for a resolution to the U.S. budget deadlock.
With the Oct. 17 deadline to increase the U.S. debt ceiling looming, Republican leaders have said they would vote to extend the government's borrowing authority for six weeks while a spokesman for President Barack Obama said he would "likely" sign a bill to increase the nation's ability to borrow money. But negotiations over the weekend did not reach a conclusion.
An agreement could also end the partial government shutdown that has idled about 350,000 Federal workers without pay for nearly two weeks.
Trading was muted in Asia, with markets in Tokyo and Hong Kong closed for holidays.
Outside of those major financial centers, China's Shanghai Composite Index was up 0.5 percent at 2,238.39 and South Korea's Kospi was off 0.1 percent at 2,024.03. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 shed 0.5 percent to 5,208.10. Markets in Taiwan and Southeast Asia were also down.
Wall Street rose for a second day Friday as investors bet lawmakers would reach agreement to raise the debt limit and prevent the U.S. from defaulting on its debt payments, a possibly that has upset markets since mid-September. U.S. government bonds are usually considered the world's safest investment, so even the possibility of a default is unnerving for investors.
The Dow rose 0.7 percent to close at 15,237.11. The Standard & Poor's 500 added 0.6 percent to 1,703.20. The Nasdaq gained 0.8 percent to 3,791.87.
In energy markets, benchmark crude for November delivery was down 13 cents at $101.89 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 99 cents to close at $102.02 on Friday.
The euro rose to $1.3563 from $1.3554 late Friday in New York. The dollar rose to 98.27 yen from 98.19 yen.
Miguel Torres never meant to sit out for a year. It wasn't a knee jerk reaction to a tough streak, and he certainly didn't intend to return to 145 pounds, a weight he hadn't competed at since he was plying his trade around the Indiana amateur circuit.
Like all things in life, the end result of his 11-month hiatus just kind of happened. After dropping a split decision to Marlon Moraes at WSOF's debut show, Torres was supposed to fight again in March. But that idea fell through, and then life started getting in the way.
By the time WSOF officials finally called Torres to offer him untested Pablo Alfonso at WSOF 6, it was three weeks out from the event, and a brief stop at featherweight simply sounded better than a short-notice, torturous weight cut down to 135.
"I feel good," Torres joked with MMAFighting.com. "It's not like I'm cutting 25 pounds to make 145. I'm really going to take a s--t and brush my teeth and I'll be on point. I'm not walking around at 200 pounds."
It's a typical Torres response, light of heart and dryly rattled off. But in many ways, it also flies in the face of a strange, misguided sense of expectation one might carry about the former WEC king.
Torres is a fighter who lost three of his past four. After starting his career with a 37-1 run, he's 3-5 since mid-2009. His first fight after being released by the UFC ended in a split decision loss, then he vanished. No media, no declarative statements about switching camps. Not much of anything, actually.
The common stereotype says the situation -- one last loss, to a then-unknown, no less -- finally sent Torres over the edge; a broken man left with nothing but memories of past glories. However, that couldn't be further from the truth.
"That fight didn't devastate me," Torres said. "I wasn't broken down, and I didn't fight (since then) because of that fight. I was just taking care of other business. I make money doing other things. Fighting is a good way to make money and get popularity, but I have that already.
"I do this for fun now. Before it was a fulltime job, and I developed all my skills and habits towards fighting. I was becoming too much like a workman. Now I haven't fought for a while, and I'm fighting because I want to fight again; because I miss it, because I want to have fun."
Torres' honestly is refreshing, if not surprising. It's definitely not something you hear everyday, a professional prizefighter describing how fighting is no longer their fulltime job.
Though in a way, it makes sense. While it explains Torres' self-imposed media blackout, it also explains the reason the once-outspoken fighter has, for all intents and purposes, trimmed away a majority of the social media fat he once reveled in, limiting his interaction to occasional musings instead of daily slapstick.
"I had to draw a line between how I am, how I think and how I feel," Torres said.
"Before WEC and UFC, I was a pretty private person. I wasn't on Facebook or Twitter. None of that stuff. My sponsors wanted me to get on. They said I had a funny personality, that I said a lot of funny things. And then that s--t got me in trouble. People at first liked it, and then they didn't like it; thought I was horrible. So I'd rather just keep my personal life personal."
To hear him explain it, it's actually quite simple. In the year since the Moraes loss, Torres fell off the grid because that's how he prefers to live.
Instead of devoting his time a thousand different directions, Torres decided to focus on himself. He trained, he expanded his academy, Hammond's Torres Martial Arts. He traveled, and he delighted in spending time with his family, especially his daughter, who's now old enough to understand that daddy punches people in the face for a living.
Meanwhile all the noise, the criticism and constant online potshots, it faded into irrelevance. It fell on deaf ears, the way Torres hoped.
"You could say that, yeah," Torres acknowledged. "I'm just fed up with all the crap, man. Fans are fickle. They love you one day, they hate you the next. You can't say how you think because they didn't like the way you think. All of a sudden you're a bad person. It's just a real fickle world that we live in, and the media can portray whatever you say however they want it to come out. So for me, it's nobody's business to begin with. It's my life. It's my business."
Torres says he's all grown up now, offhandedly in a way that you know he's mostly joking but the slightest shred of truth still exists within the cliché.
He prefers not to comment on his recent legal run-in, but is beyond thankful when asked about a late-September incident in which 11 Chicago gangsters robbed his father at gunpoint, but fortunately left him unharmed. The episode "hit home" with Torres, serving as yet another reminder of what is truly important in his life.
Now that he's back in action, Torres wants to fight as often as possible for two, maybe three more years, just to show his daughter what her old man is made of. And while he acknowledges that Alfonso is, at least on paper, an easy fight, he warns that the notion doesn't much.
Nonetheless, Torres sees this as a chance to show off his "old style," to begin writing the final chapter of a career in his own way, without the old outside obligations that once weighed him down.
"People write me off. They say I'm washed up. They say all these things, and I don't mind it," the 32-year-old Torres said.
"I know what's going on now. I can see the big picture. I'm happier because I see the world for how it works. I know what I've got to do to be successful, and that's mind my business, keep my head down, and fight my balls off like I used to."
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NEW YORK (AP) — A 16-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head almost exactly one year ago by the Taliban for advocating for girls' education told an audience in New York that one day she hopes to be her country's prime minister.
Malala Yousafzai (mah-LAH'-lah YOO'-suhf-zeye) spoke Thursday before an audience at the 92nd Street Y. Her speech came on the eve of the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize, for which she is a top contender.
In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Malala said she is not afraid to die in the pursuit of education for all. The interview will air Sunday.
Malala was awarded Europe's top human rights award just hours before her New York interview. She says she would be honored to win the Nobel Prize but is far from accomplishing the change she hopes for.
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