Addressing some of the changes with characterizations, families, and accents, Julie Plec said, "In a nutshell, we wanted to cast whoever was best for the part and not have to deal with dialect coaching and all those things. Some Australians are really good at American accents, and some are not. I didn't even want to know. I wanted people to be their most pure, authentic selves."
It may be difficult for fans to grapple with at first, but you get used to it quickly. "I wanted to make sure there was really great representation in this show in a way that the book, the last names of everyone in the book didn't necessarily indicate much outside the area and universe. To the point of a Sonya Karp or even Liz's family, when you read the first book of the series, there [is] so much incredible rich backstory," Plec added. "There's so much that happened to these characters in the past that we never got to see. We thought, 'Gosh, not only did we have six books to work with, but we have an entire mythology of the past that we could use as story.'"
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