ChevronOne sat down with Louis Hunter of The Secret Circle about his return to the show. Louis had some flattering things to say about Gale!

On the subject of Nick’s drowning, I comment that it was surely one of the show’s most shocking and memorable scenes to date. It also raises the question as to whether Nick will be coming after Charles (Gale Harold) at any point? Many fans have expressed their hope that he will.

“I would love that as well,” he confesses. “Even purely from the fact that I loved working with Gale. I think he’s a great, great guy. I think he’s an amazing actor and that scene that you’re talking about – the drowning scene – was one of my favorite scenes to film. So if I get to work with him, whether it’s to try to track him down and kill him or whether it’s to work with him, or for him, I would love to do more stuff with him. We’ll just have to wait and see if that comes to fruition.”

“It could make for a very interesting storyline,” I comment.

“Charles’ character is still so mysterious and suspicious,” he observes. “We still don’t really know his motives. It seemed to be clear early on, but then towards the end of the season it became unclear again. It wasn’t precisely explained what it was he really stood for – what part he’s playing. I think with Nick now coming back – now that he’s slightly different,” he adds with a laugh, “we don’t really know what he’s about either. What’s he doing? What does he want? Those two characters are left a little in the dark. You could do a lot with them in terms of bringing out their character arcs again.”

I recently spoke to Gale Harold (Charles Meade) who mentioned the potential for an interesting storyline if Nick were to pursue Charles at some point.

“Perhaps! I can’t give you a solid answer either way but I can tell you it definitely be a very problematic thing for Charles to have to sort through if he finds himself interacting with the kid that he drowned. That to me would be very very interesting. I don’t know if that’s gong to happen but it would be great retribution. A great payback!” Harold said in a recent Chevron One interview.

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Don’t forget to watch The Secret Circle tonight at 9pm on The CW. It’s the second to last episode of the season. Here is the promo for Prom.

I’ve added some photos from Gale’s appearance in the Young Playwright’s Festival last year.

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Gale and Scott Lowell will be participating in the The Young Playwrights Festival of 2012 on June 3rd, as Gale did last year when he appeared in A Dog in Space. You can check out the website here.

Thanks to Gale Devotee!

Gale and Yara attended the Unite Against the War on Women rally today in L.A. Yara posted a pic of Gale on her Twitter at @Yara_Martinez. You can see the photo here and a pic of Yara and Gale’s shoes here.

If you think it’s hard to be a teenager in Chance Harbor, just look at the grown-ups! They basically have nothing to do but bicker over quartz and become alcoholics. Not so coincidentally, the same lack of activity seems to be true of the older actors on the show. For most of this season, The Secret Circle’s star-studded roster of parents has been trapped in a loop of aimless scheming and plagued by a complete lack of awareness of what their kids have been up to (not to mention the fact that they were all in mortal danger). But that’s all changed with the arrival of John Blackwell, whose appearance has amped up the parents’ role considerably, particularly Gale Harold’s Charles Meade. The man who began the series as a Darth Vader-esque walking nightmare was quickly transformed into a doormat, but Blackwell has awakened the spirit of vengeance in him and the season now appears to be headed for an exciting showdown. In other words, the grown-ups of Chance Harbor are finally starting to get their due.

Last week, Gale Harold was kind enough to let me badger him with dumb questions and he told me all about what he thinks of Charles’ brain, his least favorite acting mistake, and also…you guessed it: crystals.

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Charles Meade (Gale Harold), you are not the father!

The Secret Circle got its Jerry Springer on last week when the CW dropped a bombshell on its viewers: Diana (Shelley Hennig) is Cassie’s (Britt Robertson) half-sister, meaning her real father is not Charles, but John Blackwell (Joe Lando).

While we’ve seen Charles do a lot of terrible things, his one redeeming quality has always been his love for his daughter, so it’s safe to say things are about to get really juicy in Chance Harbor.

We chatted with Harold about what’s next for Charles and Diana’s relationship, the long-awaited Blackwell-Charles face-off and what fans can expect from the finale!

“A lot of pain,” Harold teases of what’s in store for Charles and Diana post-Blackwell reveal. “A lot of pain and suspicion. There’s deep suspicion and betrayal. It’s like a combination of betrayal and pain. And there’s not really anything Charles can do about it. And it’s kind of his fault as well. Yeah, it’s bad.”

Also bad is what this means for Blackwell and Charles’ already strained (to put it lightly) dynamic, with Charles trying to kill Blackwell and everything in the last episode. Harold says fans shouldn’t expect Charles to give up so easily. ” I can tell you that Charles basically has to either edge him out or get rid of him…the face-off, it’s not really like a schoolyard fight, it’s more like—there is a wildcat stuck in your basement, you got to deal with it. You can’t tell your kids that there’s a wildcat in your basement because they’d freak out.”

While the circle’s hunt for the crystals, the very same ones Charles and Dawn (Natasha Hendstridge) have been relentlessly pursuing all season, may become problematic for him, Harold says Charles has a bigger threat looming. “What I think is more dangerous for Charles right now with Blackwell is that he has no idea what Blackwell knows,” he explains. “Whatever Blackwell knows is upper hand. And how he uses it determines—he’s in a very controlling position. Charles kind of has his hands tied. There’s really not much he can do. He has to react.”

Considering the show has proven time and time again it’s not afraid to off its characters (Nick, Lee, Grandma Jane, take your pick!), Harold says fans should prepare themselves for the finale, which he says contains “a lot of danger.” So who exactly is in danger? “They are all in danger, the whole town. Everyone that’s involved in this crew, in this witch ghetto, could get eradicated,” Harold hints. “There’s a lot of crashed cars.” Buckle up, kids!

Viewers have seen many different sides of Charles since being introduced as the murderer of Cassie’s mother in the pilot, and we were curious to hear Harold’s thoughts on the journey his character has taken throughout the season. “The most interesting thing for me is Charles having to sort his way through very realistic problems. Like the problems everyone has to deal with. The fact his wife is dead, he killed two people and his daughter is a witch,” Harold says. “There’s so much conceptually to make it strange and bizarre, it’s more like family stuff, the psychological stuff, Charles slowly going more and more into an unstable place. I’m up for that anytime.”

As for what else he would like to see happen with his character? A face-off between Charles and Diana! “I would like for Charles and Diana to have some sort of serious problem that they may have to fight over in more than just an argument,” he says. “That they might actually have to battle one another, which I think would be really horrible for a father and daughter, but unavoidable. That’s what I would like.” Sounds like Harold may just get his wish!

The Secret Circle airs tonight at 9 p.m. on the CW.

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