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Fans of The Secret Circle had no idea Nick (Louis Hunter), who died earlier this season, would somehow return in last week’s episode. But Chris Zylka, who plays Nick’s brother Jake, had suspected it was coming for a while. “Louis secretly was telling Thomas [Dekker, who plays Adam] that they were trying to negotiate something for him to come back awhile ago, and that sparked complete joy in me because Louis and I had never met. Here we play brothers, and all I want to do is meet the guy to kinda get to know him so there was that sense that we knew each other before,” Zylka laughs. “He’s a huge Brando fan, and I love old films, so we definitely bonded over that.” As for Jake’s reaction to Nick’s return: “He’s gonna be typical Jake and cover up his real emotion with some secondary emotion, and then when push comes to shove and he has to show how he really feels, it’s pretty intense and heartfelt,” Zylka says. READ FULL STORY »

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Last week on The Secret Circle, viewers learned that Diana (Shelley Hennig) is the second Blackwell child. Hennig only learned that Diana was Cassie’s (Britt Robertson) half-sister a few days before the episode was shot. “I was shocked and I kept thinking, ‘Well, the scripts change up until the day of,’ so I didn’t get my hopes up until I was actually shooting the episode,” she says. “We all wanted it. It was a cool twist for any of us. But for me, I just thought that it would explain Diana’s connection with Cassie all along, and the fact that the first person she’d go to when her and Adam broke up was Cassie, the girl who basically got between the two of them. I remember shooting that going, ‘Ohmygod, never in a million years would I go to the girl who got in the way to cry on her shoulder.’ So it just totally makes sense now, in my mind.” So where do we go from here?  READ FULL STORY »

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Every episode of The Secret Circle seems to deliver more twists and turns than the last. And the last new episode is no exception. Fans learned that if the Circle tracked down the six crystals, they could rid themselves of those problematic witch hunters. Where do we go from here? Well, co-star Gale Harold isn’t dropping any secrets, but he’s definitely excited for fans to find out.

“It’s sort of like a mad dash to the end of the season,” he says of tonight’s episode. “In terms of what could happen, it depends on who gets their hands on what, who can assemble the crystals and who is going to have those under their control.” READ FULL STORY »

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It takes a lot to scare Faye. The young witch is as tough as teens come, but in tonight’s episode of The Secret Circle,  Phoebe Tonkin says viewers will see her bravery wane as she faces off against Lee’s ex-girlfriend Eva, who last week woke up from her coma with a major personality shift.

“To be honest, I don’t think anyone really threatens Faye,” she says. “But in the next episode, though, she’s a bit scared for her life, which is very different. It all gets a little dangerous.”

The situation has already seemingly claimed one life: Lee (Gray Damon), who fans last saw encased in a cocoon-like substance gasping for air. (But should we not start mourning just yet? Like Nick, who is expected to return later this season, Tonkin says we likely haven’t seen the last of Lee. There’s always a chance.) READ FULL STORY »

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Executive producer Andrew Miller admits that it’s been tricky crafting this season of The Secret Circle.

Whereas most teen shows are happy to use parent characters as little more than occasionally-nagging props, The Secret Circle has weaved a complicated backstory in which the parents play just as big of a part in the overall mythology as the young stars of the show. And with the introduction of  Cassie’s (Britt Robertson) father, John Blackwell (Joe Lando), just before the show’s recent mini-hiatus, which concludes tonight with a new episode, the challenge became even greater. “Navigating the world of teen fiction is tricky because [parents] can’t play too much of a role because the kids aren’t discovering what they need to discover on their own. They can’t be too mentoring. Yet, we want them to be this base on which we define everything else,” says Miller.

Beginning with tonight’s installment, that goal becomes even more apparent, as more revelations about Blackwell’s past with Ethan (Adam Harrington) come to light. “What’s so fun to me about the character is playing against the expectations of both the audience and the inhabitants of Chance Harbor. For Dawn, Charles and Ethan, they’ve had this idea of this guy for 16 years that’s just gotten worse and worse and worse. For Cassie, she’s had no opinion of her father for most of her life–  except for the last few weeks. Now, that’s all being turned on it’s head,” he says. READ FULL STORY »