Paul Wesley and Joseph Morgan Discuss Their Vampire Diaries Bromance

Elena is growing closer to Damon, Caroline is cozying up to Tyler, and Jeremy is bonding with Bonnie, but the couple we’re really digging is sexy vampire BFFs Stefan and Klaus. And just wait till you see the bloody damage they do on this week’s episode. But first, the actors talk about relationships, redemption, being British and playing bad.
TV Guide Magazine: You wreak havoc so well together. You were buddies before Joseph joined the show, weren’t you?
Wesley: We met through friends and immediately had a good rapport. Joseph’s a really cool guy and so when I was talking with [executive producer] Julie Plec about Klaus, I said, “You have to look into this guy Joseph Morgan.”
Morgan: I wondered why Julie told casting to call me!
Wesley: And six months later I heard he was cast.
TV Guide Magazine: Your characters are murdering their way through America, trying to build a hybrid werewolf-vampire army. What’s it like to collaborate on such intense, blood-soaked scenes?
Morgan: Klaus really just wants companionship with someone as dark, if not darker, than he is, so the more we delve into Stefan the Ripper, the more fun we have.
Wesley: What’s cool, too, is that our characters have this history. Stefan just found out that he’d been compelled to forget that Klaus and he were pals in the past. It’s completely shocking to him, but it makes him see Klaus not just as this archetypal evil guy. He’s suddenly a guy that Stefan empathizes with.