"When you drowned a teenager and you’re looking at them in the eye and it’s one of your daughter’s good friends, it’s a very troubling moment, even worse than burning someone’s house down with them still inside. I know it’s hard to choose, you burn somebody down, you drown somebody, eh, I don’t know, but no, the drowning, yeah, that was, um, that was not pleasant." - Gale Harold
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2012年2月14日更新情人节电子贺卡:
CW在facebook上发布了各剧的情人节电子贺卡:
第一季片花一: A Piece of Advice - 各位演员给自己的角色一点小建议
Behind the Magic – Some Good Advice
"If I was gonna give Charles a piece of advice? Pay attention...times a million. There's a bunch of thins going on that don't track." - Gale Harold
由导演兼摄影师Christopher Grismer拍摄。图片摄于2011年11月4日加拿大温哥华。
Christopher Grismer曾担任<Queer as Folk>311,403以及505的导演；他将执导<The Secret Circle>第10集。Chris的摄影集地址: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69473655@N08/
第5集剧情(Charles部分): http://www.ksitetv.com/8377/the- ... -title-description/
Completely unaware of the new danger encroaching on their children, Dawn (Natasha Henstridge) joins Charles (Gale Harold) aboard his boat to further their plans for the Circle, but is surprised to find that Charles may have more than business on his mind.
Charles邀请Dawn到自己的游艇上相见，进一步讨论他们对于秘社的计划。但Dawn发现Charles要说的不仅仅是秘社的事。
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2011年9月29日第一季第3集预告片/两大编剧解说103剧情:
Charles的戏份从1分30秒开始，期待今晚播出的这一集:P
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2011年9月15日正式开播~~预先祝愿收视大捷!{:3_227:} {:3_227:}
最新剧组专访揭露更多秘密:
3分05秒: 人家就是喜欢靠在椅子上懒洋洋地跟你说:"I play Charles Meade..."{:3_254:}
Gale Harold is the show's villain, Charles Meade, but he was cagey about what the character's motivations are, saying that there was no clear answer and that Charles "is not even sure what he's up to." He was pretty clear, however, about the fact that Charles is a big bad man, because he's "not just the bad guy, but a very bad guy who's supposed to be a good person."
Harold pointed out that "Charles [will] always be looking over his shoulder and...into people's eyes to see what they understand about him." And if someone finds out the truth? Well, Williamson's shows are known for killing off regulars, so maybe these guys shouldn't get too comfortable just yet!
"How about medium-generationers?" she suggested, still laughing. "What's funny, though, is that we had a cast dinner, and when I saw (42-year-old co-star) Gale Harold, I thought he was one of the high school kids! Everybody's, like, 'You can't have a daughter in high school!' But, apparently, the story goes that they all had kids when they were 15 or 16-years-old. I can live with that."
"The easiest explanation is there's not a clear explanation," said Harold, sounding cagey. In terms of the town, he's a fine, upstanding man and a good father, he said. But there's more than meets the eye...
"The easiest explanation is there's not a clear explanation." -- 大风金句
One of the first questions explicitly pointed at Gale is if he could explain his character's motivations, and whether or not he's good or evil.
"The easiest explanation is that there's not a clear explanation, he said. "And I'm not sure if he is even sure of what he's up to. I think he's very, very drawn to bringing back something that he thought he had his hands on when he was younger. But the way that it's structured, he needs this new generation to come and bind. And through that I think that my character Charles and Natasha's character Dawn will utilize that. But I think in terms of the genre, what's interesting about him is that he has ‑‑ he kind of has to make sure that everyone around him who may or may not know what's going on assumes that he's just an upstanding, nice man and a good father while playing the double all the time, which is what's very interesting about the part, because it's not just a bad guy. It's a very bad guy who seems to be a very good person and uses that any way he can."
Charles Meade will have to put on a front and seem like a nice guy to most of the people in Chance Harbor, as it is a small town. "I think, for Charles, for my character, it's going to be pivotal to maintain that veil, right?" he asked. "I think he's always going to be looking over his shoulder and looking through people's windows and trying to look into their eyes and see what they understand about what he's saying to them. A small town is good because there's gossip ‑‑ right? ‑‑ and there's history, and everybody has their own story of what everything means, and they can develop their own versions. So it's very, very ‑‑ it's very, very treacherous to even walk around the corner ‑‑ right? ‑‑ besides my life at home. I have a daughter who is in high school. So I've got to be really, really, really careful. I think that that's hopefully going to be part of the tension is it's got to be obvious, right? Somebody has got to know, and we are going to find out who they are and what they know and maybe what I have to do to shut them up...."
Gale Harold was then interrupted and told "But you can't kill everybody in the show."
还记得在预告片里面被Charles(Gale)狠狠惩罚的长舌酒鬼么? 他其实是Queer as Folk第五季里面饰演Rage的Adam J. Harrington{:3_294:} (Gale和Rage的狭路相逢)
最近Adam在一篇访问中提到<The Secret Circle>和Gale:
"The pilot was great," he says. "The cast is phenomenal. I'm very excited to be involved with it. I haven't been involved with something like this before. It’s a combination of drama and mystery and … I don't know if you'd call it science fiction or not but definitely the Occult. I get to work with the wonderfully talented Gale Harold who plays my arch nemesis, Charles Meade. Our history goes back to when we were teenagers in the series so it's quite fun to play off of him. As the series rolls on you'll see what has happened that's given us so much history and why we're so at odds with each other.
1. -Gale Harold, who has been recurring on the CW's Hellcats this season, has joined another CW project, drama pilot The Secret Circle. Co-written by Kevin Williamson, it centers on Cassie (Britt Robertson), who moves to a new town and discovers that not only is she a witch and part of a secret coven, but she’s also the key that will unlock a centuries-old battle of good versus evil. Harold, repped by Gersh and Principal, will play Thomas Meade, the father of Diane, the head of the witch circle and Cassie's friend.
2. -SECRET CIRCLE (The CW) - Gale Harold ("Hellcats") has been cast in the drama pilot, about Cassie Blake (Britt Robertson), a California teen who moves to her mom's hometown of New Salem, Maine and discovers that she comes from a family of witches. He'll play Thomas Meade ("an attractive man; piercing eyes; pale skin; eerie beautiful"), Diane's (Shelley Hennig) father, who along with Vice Principal Dawn Chamberlain (Natasha Henstridge) take a unique interest in Cassie. Jessica Parker Kennedy, Louis Hunter, Phoebe Tonkin and Thomas Dekker also star in the CBS Television Studios/Warner Bros. Television-based hour, from writer Andrew Miller and director Liz Friedlander.
3. -The CW is currently casting for Secret Circle, based on the books by Vampire Diaries creator L.J. Smith. Now KSiteTV has learned of another role being cast for the pilot by the name of Thomas Meade.
It's not a lot of information, but it reveals something about this character, who sounds like he may be a bit of a villain in this series.
Thomas doesn't approve that Ethan Conant, who we're assuming is a member of one of the families of witches, drinks a lot; and when he drinks a lot, he talks a lot. He confronts Ethan at the Boathouse Bar & Grill and has a rather lethal way of dealing with his displeasure of Ethan's behavior.
Thomas knows and interacts with Dawn.
@TVDFansOnline speculated on Twitter that he is Diana's father; considering they seem to share a last name, that's probably a very good guess. Again, my lack of Secret Circle knowledge is showing. (Sorry!)
