Claire heeft een rol gescoort in de nieuwe pilot serie ‘Doomsday’ van zender ABC.

Claire Holt (Aquarius) has been cast as the lead of ABC’s thriller drama pilot Doomsday, from producer Carol Mendelsohn and Sony TV.

Written by Mark Bianculli & VJ Boyd and directed by Joachim Ronning, Doomsday starts in the aftermath of 9/11, when the U.S. government institutes a secret think tank featuring the most creative minds in science and entertainment that is tasked with dreaming up man-made disaster scenarios and their possible solutions. Because the hypothetical ideas are deemed extremely dangerous, the list is sealed and the program shut down. But when a catastrophe occurs that’s ripped from the pages of the missing doomsday book, the team is brought back years later to prevent the disasters of their own making.

Holt will play Kayla, the newest member of the Doomsday project. Considered the best cyber security analyst in the country, she’s efficient, irreverent, and not particularly interested in making friends.

Australian-born Holt recurred on the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, subsequently transitioning to spinoff The Originals. She recently co-starred on NBC’s Aquarius. In features, Holt just wrapped the female lead in indie comedy The Divorce Party and can next be seen in the Weinstein Co.’s In The Deep. Holt repped by WME, Management 360 and Stone Genow Smelkinson.

Matt Donovan has somehow managed to do the impossible on The Vampire Diaries.

For eight seasons, he’s not only remained human, but he’s also remained alive. Sure, he died for a second or two a few times here and there and lost most of the people he ever cared about, but he never died permanently, and now he’s the town sheriff.

We feared he was about to meet his end multiple times over the course of the series, and yet Matt made it all the way to the finale, and possibly beyond. We asked Matt’s portrayer, Zach Roerig, for advice on how other humans could survive so long in supernatural worlds, and we thought maybe he’d say “stay inside.” He did not.

“You can’t be too afraid. You gotta be ready to jump into the fire and hope that your burns will heal, your wounds will heal,” he tells us in the video above. “That’s the only way you’re going to keep coming back.”

That was certainly not the advice we were expecting.

“If you test your limits, you might die, but you might not,” he says. “Matt’s superhero could be like, the Human Scab or something like that. He just keeps coming back.”

Something tells us that advice isn’t actually going to be all that helpful for anyone but Matt Donovan.

As for Matt’s fate in the finale, executive producer Julie Plec couldn’t tell us whether he lives or dies, but she did give us this statement to tide us over:

“I’m one of the biggest cheerleaders for Matt Donovan and happiness. I ship Matt Donovan with happiness, but there are plenty who don’t, so we’ll see who won when all is said and done.”

On a slightly lighter note, click play above to hear from Roerig and his costar Michael Malarkey share their messages for the fans as the series says goodbye, and stay tuned for more scoop on the finale!

The Vampire Diaries series finale airs tomorrow night at 9 p.m., following a retrospective of the series at 8 p.m. on the CW.

Er zijn nieuwe afleveringsstills verschenen van alfevering 4×01 – Gather Up the Killers van ´The Originals´.

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http//: 4×01 – Gather Up the Killers

Er zijn nieuwe afleveringsstills verschenen van aflevering 8×15 – We’re Planning a June Wedding en 8×16 – I Was Feeling Epic van ‘The Vampire Diaries’.

Galerij Links:
http//: 8×15 – We’re Planning a June Wedding
http//: 8×16 – I Was Feeling Epic

Enkele castleden waren de afgelopen maand op enkele events, foto’s hiervan staan in de galerij.

Galerij Links:
http//: January 28: 2017 NHL All-Star Celebrity Shootout
http//: February 12: New York Fashion Week – Leanne Marshall Fashion Show
http//: February 12: New York Fashion Week – Vivienne Hu Fashion Show
http//: February 12: 59th GRAMMY Awards
http//: February 13: New York Fashion Week – MPG Fashion Show
http//: February 13: New York Fashion Week – Sherri Hill Fashion Show
http//: February 14: New York Fashion Week – ICB Fashion Show
http//: February 15: Marc Jacobs Beauty Celebrates Kaia Gerber
http//: February 15: New York Fashion Week – Vivienne Tam Fashion Show
http//: February 16: New York Fashion Week – Farm Rio and Cubavera Fashion Show
http//: February 16: New York Fashion Week – Farm Rio and Cubavera Fashion
http//: February 17: New York Fashion Week – Marc Jacobs Fashion Show
http//: February 21: Vanity Fair and L’Oreal Paris Toast to Young Hollywood, Hosted by Dakota Johnson and Krista Smith
http//: February 23: Fabiana Milazzo store opening
http//: February 23: Kari Feinstein’s Pre-Oscar Style Lounge
http//: February 24: Gemfields Celebrates Ruth Negga And Karla Welch
http//: February 25: Charles Finch and CHANEL Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner
http//: February 26: 5th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Academy Awards Viewing Party
http//: February 26: 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

Afleveringsstills van aflevering 8×15 – We’re Planning a June Wedding van ‘The Vampire Diaries’ zijn verschenen. En de moeder van Matt is dit seizoen ook te zien na zo’n 7 jaar!

Galerij Links:
http//: 8×15 – We’re Planning a June Wedding

Afleveringsstills van aflevering 8×16 – I Was Feeling Epic van ‘The Vampire Diaries’ zijn verschenen.

Galerij Links:
http//: 8×16 – I Was Feeling Epic

Er is een nieuwe poster verschenen van ‘The Originals’ opkomende vierde seizoen.

Galerij Links:
http//: 8×14 – It’s Been a Hell of a Ride

The CW had voor Valentijn speciale posters vrijgegeven!

Galerij Links:
http//: TVD > Posters
http//: TO > Posters

Ik heb nog meer setfoto’s toegevoegd van de castleden laaste paar dagen op de set van seizoen 8!

Galerij Links:
http//: Diverse

Het plot voor aflevering 8×15 – We’re Planning a June Wedding van ‘The Vampire Diaries’ is verschenen.

“WEDDING BELLS? – A wedding is quickly planned in order for Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) to lure a dangerous enemy out into the open. This looming threat puts the fate of Mystic Falls in eminent danger and must be destroyed. Chris Grismer directed the episode with the teleplay written by Melinda Hsu Taylor, story by Jen Vestuto and Melissa Marlette. (#815).”

Afleveringsstills van aflevering 8×14 – It’s Been a Hell of a Ride van ‘The Vampire Diaries’ zijn verschenen.

Galerij Links:
http//: 8×14 – It’s Been a Hell of a Ride

WWith one season left in The Vampire Diaries’ run, we decided it was time to start collecting everyone’s final diary entries. Every week during the final season, EW is asking those involved with the show to look back on one of their favorite moments from the series. So grab your tissues and join us on this trip down a vampire-filled memory lane.

This week, Daniel Gillies remembers his beginning as Elijah Mikaelson…

Very little was described to me in the beginning. They didn’t know what they wanted to do with Elijah. It was never anyone’s intention to make him Klaus’ brother. He was something of a mercenary or a hit man, and I think he was destined to be eliminated relatively early in the fabric of that narrative. I was very blessed in that I had a decent character and for some reason I immediately knew he was going to be around for a while, just even reading the sides. I don’t know how I knew, I just knew instinctively that there was something interesting about him. It was just one of those lucky occasions where you have a sensation of what you feel the character is and fortunately, I immediately had a grasp of what he is.

In the beginning, he was a lot more ruthless. The character vacillated in and out of that and another version of this creature, which desperately tried to recapture some degree of innocence and nobility or indeed humanity. He would go from that creature to the savage one, the monster in the suit.

They weren’t in a great rush to make him a “good guy.” They wanted him to stick around, and I think both Julie [Plec] and Kevin [Williamson] were concerned that he might not be liked if he was too villainous, but I think that was what people were sort of drawn to. Until Klaus came, they needed that energy, that great foe.

What became really difficult for us is, it became drastically simplistic to look at anyone as a good guy or a bad guy. To simplify in that way, you had to reestablish what a norm was. For example, there’s some fundamental survival essentials for a vampire: They’re cannibals and they need to consume people. Even though the audience is ostensibly protected from that behavior a lot of the time, we have to remember that no matter what you think of the Salvatore brothers or Elijah and Niklaus, especially, they’re consistently feeding on human victims. If you just take that very simple behavior into account, then immediately you can’t judge your “heroes” on a human level of morality, justice, and nobility. They’re the bad guys. So in a world of bad guys, what is another bad guy?

When Niklaus entered, it was an interesting shift. You certainly saw this history, you saw a glimpse of their past and I think that was exciting because what we really are looking at with the whole vampire motif, whenever I personally felt either show was most successful was when they talked about humanity. To me, the whole vampire motif is about humanity. You have these immortal figures but they’re actually looking at mortal lives with tremendous envy. To me, the metaphor of the vampire’s beautiful, no matter where you look for it in literature. In a way, it’s asking you to look at humanity and life as a gift.

When Niklaus entered into that sphere of the narrative, suddenly we introduced the two biggest monsters that we’d had in the tapestry of The Vampire Diaries thus far and they were dragging around with them, in a wagon behind them, this deluge of monstrosity, bloodshed, and humanity buried somewhere deep beneath that avalanche. I enjoyed any exploration of who he and Klaus were in the beginning because there was just so much gray. The very beginning was particularly enjoyable.

The most exciting thing that happened was discovering that I had a character that I wanted to fiercely protect. Elijah really made me a much better writer because I started writing ferociously for him. I have done ever since, together with the writers. The Vampire Diaries was kind of the beginning of a new way of working for me, which was that I never wanted to arrive on the set without having a really good compass and sense of direction. That’s what I look back at most fondly: I’m just so grateful that I was positioned in this role that I did love very much and I made a decision to protect with my life and I made a decision to write for. I have Elijah to thank for making me a much better writer.