'Vampire Diaries' Stars Who Said They Won't Appear On 'Legacies'

However lengthy it takes? While some former The Vampire Diaries stars are more than in a position to have their iconic characters return on the CW’s Legacies, not everyone is looking to come back.

The second spinoff of the hit supernatural series follows the story of Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell) all the way through her time on the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted. Matt Davis reprised his longtime function as Alaric Saltzman, a mentor to Hope and the headmaster of the varsity. His and Caroline Fobes’ (Candice King) daughters, Josie Saltzman (Kaylee Bryant) and Lizzie Saltzman (Jenny Boyd), additionally help Hope with the quite a lot of legendary beings that wreak havoc for the teenagers all through the display.

Although there have been small mentions of characters from TVD lore, author Julie Plec up to now revealed that there can be many more where that came from.

“We are going to check out and do this as steadily as we will without making false guarantees about who we would possibly see. I would really like with the intention to ship on that as much as conceivable,” Plec said all the way through an interview with Entertainment Tonight in October 2019. “I will say that I really like being able to bring in characters from the primary two displays [The Vampire Diaries and The Originals]. It’s always great to peer those actors once more in our workforce circle of relatives.”

As the door remains open, now not handiest within the discussion, showrunner Brett Matthews later famous that it was up to the former cast members to make that return possible.

“If any of the actors from our past ever called us and we had the proper story, we’d do it in a second,” Matthews detailed to TV Insider in January 2021. “There’s always an opportunity, and if any did, I wouldn’t wish to destroy those things. If anybody’s loss of life to come again and dip a toe again into this universe, just tell them to call me.”

Legacies has welcomed many familiar faces, together with Jeremy Gilbert (Steven R McQueen), Kai Parker (Chris Wood) and Jo Loughlin (Jodi Lyn O’Keefe).

But for Joseph Morgan, the theory of coming back as Hope’s father doesn’t sound exciting after he first originated the position of Klaus Mikaelson in season 2 of The Vampire Diaries. Following his character’s death in his own spinoff series, The Originals, the Brave New World alum admitted that he found that to be the perfect finishing for his persona.

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“No by no means, by no means. You’re never going to look it. You can hang your breath so long as you want,” Morgan explained during an interview with TV Guide in October 2020. “You know why? I've The Originals box set on my shelf, and it’s a lovely thing because it’s 5 DVD units that are a whole story from starting to end of this man, Klaus Michaelson — smartly, starting again in The Vampire Diaries Season 2.”

Scroll on for more former TVD stars that have confirmed they gained’t be showing on Legacies at some point:

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