MovieHole spoke with Joseph about inspiration, TV versus film, the return of Klaus, and joys of Twitter just one day before the premiere.

How did you become involved with this film?
I worked with Luke on a short film I co-directed with Matt Ryan, he knew Luke from his days in the RSC and so we called him up to ask if he wanted to DP our short. I had an instant creative connection with Luke so when he asked me if I’d be interested on working on a feature with him I jumped at the chance.

What attracts you to a character?
I’m always attracted by a good character arc. A journey that changes the character from the beginning of the film to the end. Warhouse certainly had that. It was also a wonderful opportunity to explore how far someone would go when they were totally alone, when they had no one there to judge them.

This film goes into some pretty dark places psychologically, how do you prepare for that?
I listen to music that has emotional significance to me. I allow myself to be absorbed by the scenario. Mostly it’s convincing myself the situation I’m in is real and then allowing the madness to emerge. We all have a little crazy inside, over the years I’ve learnt how to access it.

Do you think you could survive in a house like that?
I would find it pretty difficult to survive in the Warhouse. I like my alone time but I also crave regular human contact and that is what would drive me mad I think. A J Budd has his training as a royal marine commando to fall back on – Improvise, adapt, overcome. For me it would be much harder.

What made you want to become an actor? Was there a particular film that inspired you?
I had always watched movies and assumed I wanted the job of the character. For example, I watched ‘The Italian Job’ and thought I wanted to be a professional bank robber. Then I saw Brad Pitt in ‘Twelve Monkeys’ and I thought that’s the kind of part I’d love to play. I realized that I wanted to try out being all these different people, not actually choosing one path but dipping into lots of different lives. I’ve also always been an avid reader so a job that was essentially to be inside stories had obvious appeal.

Full article can be found here.
Warhouse premieres at Cannes Market this weekend. Unfortunately, Joseph can’t attend the event because of work commitments.

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Dylan Hale Lewis, Joseph’s co-star in Open Grave, shared a photo from Joseph’s birthday celebration.

He wrote:

@JosephMorgan Thx for sharing ur bday and trampoline. u + cake + @sharlto = classy pic

Thanks to Th e-Original Family for the heads up.

Last month it was announced Joseph is attending Cannes Film Festival along with Luke Massey, Matt Ryan, Benjamin Read and Leon Davies. Unfortunately I can now confirm he is NOT attending the festival. Joseph is still in Hungary working on his latest project, Open Grave. To read more about that, click here. So his appearance is canceled due to work commitments.

Our friends from Joseph Morgan Italia will interview Joseph himself. You can send them any Warhouse related questions you may have. More information on that can be found here.
Thanks to Muriel for this information.

Candice Accola talked to HollywoodLife.com about Elena and her future, Caroline’s relationship with Klaus and Joseph.

“I don’t think they necessarily closed that story line at all. Characters take breathers … so I’m sure he’ll return.”

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Dear Joseph,
I want to wish you a very, very Happy Birthday. Today is your day to dream, your day to shine and your day to feel more loved than ever.
Thank you for inspiring me.

Several fans signed a birthday card for Joseph: CLICK HERE to read through over 200 wishes!

Last month we also started our Birthday Project trying to raise some money for Positive Women, Joseph’s favourite charity organization. Thanks to many amazing fans, we collected…

£ 487.9

I decided to give another £ 12.1 so our final result is

£ 500

Especially thanks to Nazan from Joseph Morgan Fan from designed a fantastic T-shirt for us and have been here to support us from the very beginning, Zsuzsa for her autograph donation, Rachel for being the highest bidder for T-shirt signed by Ian Somerhalder and Michael Trevino, Theresa for being the highest bidder for Joseph’s autograph, Nicky and Desiree for their very generous donation at our fundraising page, everyone who bought our Positive Women / I am Morganholic wristband, Ruthie for her endless support, several people on twitter who patiently tweeted and retweeted our “auction tweets”, to everyone who bid on ebay and last but not least: to you for making all this possible by supporting everything we do. THANK YOU!

You can leave your wishes for Joseph at our comment section or sign our group card. Let’s show him how admired he is.

From IndieWire:

The Cannes Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday, but even outside of films In Competition, as part of the Un Certain Regard section or in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week sidebars, the field will also be extremely crowded in Cannes Market, where studios and producers come to hawk their wares to buyers. Double Dutch Media is one such company and they have a diverse slate of nine films unspooling in the marketplace this year. One of the more intriguing offerings is “Warhouse,” a brutal psychological (and supernatural) thriller about one man’s fight to preserve his humanity and sanity over years of terrible imprisonment.

The film is led by Joseph Morgan (Klaus Mikaelson on CW’s “The Vampire Diaries,” “Immortals”) along with Matt Ryan (“Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,” “Flypaper”) and William Troughton and is directed by newcomer Luke Massey.

Watch an exclusive clip posted by IndieWire:

Thanks to Joseph for tweeting the link. Follow him on twitter for any more updates.

First of all: Happy Mother’s Day!
Joseph and Kat talked about their mothers to PIX. Watch the video bellow to read what a nice surprise Joseph received recently from his mum.

Luke Massey shared a new video filmed on Warhouse set. You can see Joseph around 1:30 but I do highly recommend watching the whole video: it’s going to make you laugh and you’ll get to see the whole set.

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Warning: If you still haven’t seen the season finale, please stop reading.

Julie Plec has been very busy giving several interviews lately. One of them was with TVLINE where she did not only talk about Season 4 of the Vampire Diaries, but also commented on Joseph’s acting.

TVLINE | How did the cast react to the finale, especially given how much is changing for their characters?
They were very, very, very positive and supportive of the finale. So many of them found a beauty in what they felt like was returning to all the things they loved most about the show in the early episodes of the series. Stuff that was simple and pure and steeped in character and emotional. And they loved having Sara Canning back in their world.

TVLINE | What about Joseph Morgan? Have we seen the last of him?
No, we have not. It is as temporary as when he was inside Alaric’s body.

TVLINE | So both of their vessels are OK should Klaus get out of the Tyler’s body?
Yes. Desiccated Klaus is a little crispy right now, but he’s probably salvageable.

TVLINE | It seemed for a little while there that Klaus was being written off. Why did you decide to bring him back in this way?
Rarely do you have a character that comes in [during] the middle of the series and just explodes and an actor that embodies him so well that people love to hate him and hate to love him. Joseph Morgan as Klaus is pretty special. Though we wanted our heroes to have a victory after all this time, we also realized that there’s still so much more of Joseph Morgan as Klaus that we need to see on the show. We tried to make sure we got both the win for our heroes and the win for our show, which is still having Joseph a part of it.

Full article can be found here. Thanks to our friend Joseph Morgan Fan for the heads up.

Another spoiler for those who haven’t seen the season finale so if you are one of those, please stop reading.
Zap2it has a great interview with the Vampire Diaries director Julie Plec. Seems like we still haven’t see the last of Klaus

Bonnie took charge in this episode, helping Klaus into Tyler’s body. Was that a function of her being tired of being kicked around all season, or was it the influence of the dark magic she tapped into for the spell last week?
It’s definitely a result of being kicked around all season. It’s Bonnie saying, “I’m not the pawn anymore. Don’t underestimate me and don’t tell me what to do.” I think the witches sending her to Alaric really burned her, because she’d already been fighting to get her strength against the vampires, and then her own “sisters,” as they said, betrayed her. For Bonnie, this is like “Hey, look. I’ve got a point of view, I’ve got the ability to do something about it, and damn it, I’m going to do it.” To tap into that kind of power she had to dig even deeper into her darkness. In the first episode back, I can’t imagine that we won’t be looking for some kind of magic to prevent Elena from having to transition. It’ll be a question of how far Bonnie is willing to go to help her friend, and what are the repercussions and consequences attached to that.

Does Klaus owe Bonnie one now? Or does he never owe anyone anything?
I think that this definitely changes the dynamic between Klaus and Bonnie a little bit.

When “Tyler” was saying goodbye to Caroline and talking about her beautiful future, was he already Klaus, at that point?
Yeah. We definitely were hinting at that with the “you’re beautiful and you’ll have a great future” line. That was a classic Klaus-Caroline line, so we wanted to give a little hint there. All that smooching and all that emotion wasn’t Tyler at all, in fact, was Klaus.

We didn’t see Klaus’s body turn to ash, so I assume there’s some plan in place to keep Joseph Morgan in the mix.
Yep. I’d say there’s a fairly significant chance, if not a 99.9% likelihood that body did not burn up in that coffin.

Before we see him return to that body, is he going to have a little fun being Tyler?
Yep. He’s definitely going to prolong his stay, at least in the first episode, due to circumstance. Whatever goes down between Caroline and “Tyler” in the first episode will actually be happening between Caroline and Klaus, so we’ll have some fun there.

Full article can be read here. Thanks to Th e-Original Family for the heads up.