The Fangs Come Out with Joseph Morgan

First, open your mouth really wide. You have to imagine you have the fangs there, and then just like kind of squint up your eyes and think furious.

That's pretty good. That was pretty good. What's up, guys? Nicky Novak here in the Young Hollywood Studio with the Dimple and Devilish Joseph Morgan.

Oh, what an intro.

Did you like them growing up? Did you like having dimples or did you get teased?

You know, I wasn't really aware of them until people made a fuss of them.

until you were on TV it was blown up. Suddenly they're they're huge on on the screen.

Yeah, no, I I wasn't really uh, no, I wasn't teased for my dimples.

I heard Nina, your co-star say before you get ever get on set, you have to practice your vampire face in the mirror, cuz she said it can be so embarrassing doing that face. So, I'm going to put you on the spot. advice. No, you're not going to Can you can you teach me? You know what? You're just gonna You can teach me. I'll do it with you.

You know what? It's every person's vampire face is different. So, you have to just find your inner vampire. Okay. So, um, I guess what you would do is, uh, first of all, you have to sort of just uh, not be aware that there's three cameras on us, okay?

I'm going to talk you through it. I I I we've all seen my vampire face. But you'll do it with me, right?

No, we've all seen my vampire face. We don't need to see it. But I I'd love to see yours right now with the one dimple. So, what I'd like to do, what do you need to do is just kind of Okay. Okay, just focus and now

I'm gonna be a guinea pig. I tried to turn it on you and you're turning it back.

I know, right. That's fine. That's fine. I do it enough. I do it all the time. I want to see yours. So, um, what you do, what you need to do is, uh, just think of a split second change. So, one second, you're just normal, and then I find open, first open your mouth really wide. You have to imagine you have the fangs there, and then just like kind of squint up your eyes and think furious.

That's pretty good. That was pretty good. I wasn't ready for it. It it it came at me frozen.

Well, exactly. And that's what I'm talking about, you know? You see one from one second to the next.

So, speaking of being playing evil characters and being immortal, you're also in The Immortals. What a great link that was. Seamless, wasn't it? Yes. And I can do a vampire face. And you can do a vampire face. I have faith in you. Prove me right.

I did Immortals, uh, I shot Immortals, Immortals, just before I uh, came on to Vampire Diaries and it was just a tremendous experience. It was uh, really interesting for me because I play a very low status character in the film. Probably the lowest, sniveling wretch in in the movie and and completely the opposite. So, in America it would be like trailer trash or it would be like Like uh, kind of treated as a dog.

Aren't you like you said you were a TV junkie or movie junkie?

I I love movies, yeah, I do.

Any any guilty pleasure TV shows? You don't watch reality TV, do you?

I went through a phase of watching about four or five episodes in a row of I think it was the Bachelor or The Bachelorette. I'm slightly ashamed of myself.

I like a guy that watches The Bachelor.

But you know, it's one of those things where you sort of suffer through the first bit if you're watching it with someone else, and then you, you know, they put it on again and you're like, oh, yeah, okay, I'll watch it. And then you kind of find I find myself Tivo-ing it, you know, like, oh, maybe I'll just see what's happening.

Did somebody impersonate you in Twitter or something like that?

Yes. Yeah. That's why I joined originally. I I I um, I spent two weeks sort of reading the tweets of someone pretending to me be me, you know, going to set, oh, I'm really nervous today, got a big day on set. And I was like, okay. And his their grammar was really bad and that was the thing which sort of pushed me over the edge.

You had to dispel the rumors.

I just wanted my spelling and my grammar is better than that.

Well, we have a little game for you.

Oh, okay. Okay. Because I know you're into, you're into vampire movies, you're into zombie movies.

I yeah, I'm obsessed with them. Even prior to vampire. So we're going to test your knowledge.

Oh, please. Okay.

You ready for this? This is it. Yeah. Question one. Which is not an effective way to kill a vampire? This is multiple choice. Stake through the heart. Silver bullet. Rocket propelled grenade launcher.

Wow. Well, I thought technically a silver bullet is a way to kill a werewolf, but I guess in some things it's to kill a vampire. So, I'm going to go with rocket propelled grenade launcher, although surely it would blow them up completely. I don't know.

You're right. Rocket propel Ding ding ding. Thank you. Question two. In 28 Days Later, what virus turn humans into zombies?

The rage virus.

We didn't even have to give multiple choice. I love this. Okay. Question three. Which of the yeah, this is tricky. Okay. Okay, I'm ready. Which of the actors of the following actors has not played a vampire? Okay. Jude Law. Rob Pattinson. Colin Farrell. Eddie Murphy.

Jude Law. They all have. They all have. Truth. Jude Law, damn it. When did Jude Law play a vampire? We we said wisdom of Crocodiles. I haven't seen that.

Which film advises one to double tap when killing zombies? I'm not even going to give you multiple choice on this one.

Yes! Double tap, right? What is your favorite? What are your favorite? Uh, 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later movies. I love the Zack Snyder remake of Dawn of the Dead.

But you like Bachelor at the most.

I think they should get all the contestants from the Bachelorette from Bachelor Pad and then release a load of the 28 Days Later rage virus infected zombies, and then you've got a reality show. There, and then I wouldn't feel guilty watching.

You think you were so good? We're going to clock you in the head with a I mean I would have been the first. I want to put it on, but I have a really large head, so I'm worried it won't Oh, no, there we go.