“What I’ve always said about Hook and Emma is that they are kindred spirits. They’re survivors. Emma is a pirate in her own way. She’s had to sort of go from one family to the next, or one group of people to the next, and find her own way to survive, and her own way to not let life get the best of her. So they’re definitely kindred spirits, and I think what Emma finds surprising on the island is that he exceeds her expectations in terms of his kindness and his help. She is someone who makes very educated decisions on people’s previous behavior. For example, she has to team up with Regina because she knows that Regina wants to save Henry too. So, she has to sort of brush under the rug the fact that she tried to kill her whole family, and her, and has killed thousands of other people and all of those other things, and just deal with the fact that she really does want to save Henry, and start from that common ground, but still make educated decisions from that point forward. With Hook, she knows what he is capable of, but he continues to surprise her by doing something different from what she expects. That is an interesting dynamic, that does play out.
– Jennifer Morrison
