I’m pretty torn in regards to how JMo feels about CS, honestly. There are interviews where she presents herself as super into it and super into Colin. You can read it as having to shill a product but why not be consistent? Cause then you do get snark comments like “I didn’t write that” that call into question how much she enjoys her leading romantic storyline.
It seems that different actors on ONCE put different amounts of effort into keeping themselves disassociated from the characters they’re playing, and squish in the bud any comparison between themselves and their character. RC I think is at one extreme of the spectrum, and JMo is at the other. In every interview I remember seeing or reading, it’s very clear that RC is keeping a lot of distance from Rumple, the writing, and to some degree the show (i.e.”the money is good” sort of comment). I think Lana is similar, and this might have something to do with them playing quasi-villains. JMo, though, seems to identify with Emma a lot more, at least in how she’s presenting herself in interviews, so I think some of this flip flopping on CS has to do with her habit of talking about her portrayal of Emma with this greater degree of self-identification — and it doesn’t help when the audience squeals over “real life” JMo and Colin, which only encourages this conflation.