Ginnifer Goodwin and OUAT creators, Kitsis and Horowitz talk about what to expect in episode 18 regarding the EQ and her motives:
Those parallels will play heavy into an early April episode, where the audience will finally learn the catalyst of the Evil Queen’s hatred for Snow White, which ultimately lead to the curse. To tease the upcoming reveal, Kitsis asked fans to ponder this: “Why was the Evil Queen so unhappy at their wedding? Why did her very wedding make her so upset?” Adds Horowitz: “True love seems to piss off the Evil Queen, why is that?”
“It’s a real gift to the audience that we’re going to tell that story this season,” Goodwin notes. “It’s a very important piece of the puzzle, and folks will sympathize with the Evil Queen in ways they’re not expecting.”
From a recent interview of Lana Parrilla (Regina) regarding the EQ’s mother and her love for Henry:
As TVGuide.com previously reported, that episode will flash back to a young Evil Queen – and a young Snow White not played by Goodwin – and the Queen’s own mother, Cora (Barbara Hershey). “Cora helps me understand Regina more because the way Regina is with Henry – we see that she loves her son, maybe not in the healthiest way, but she does and that’s very similar to how Cora loves Regina,” says Parrilla, who also teases that we may see more heart-crushing before the season is up. “Cora loves her daughter, but she wants the best for her and she controls and manipulates the situation in the same ways that Regina does with Henry.”
While Parrilla was shy to say whether Regina might ultimately change her mind about the curse, she noted, “There are some concerns and questions around the curse that you’ll see, like, who really made that curse and what was in that curse?”
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