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Insider.com: How much room does all this emotional exposition leave for love in Emma’s life?
Jennifer: It was definitely a priority for the writers this year to bring men into her life. Interestingly, I think we can’t truly be in healthy relationships until we work out issues with our parents, so I think it’s fascinating that they’ve chosen the season where she begins to learn about her parents to also be the season where she opens herself up to love. But Emma definitely won’t be the pursuer. She’s a tough nut to crack, but there are men coming into her life who aggressively try to break through her armor.It could go either way with this quote, but I have to repeat that I hope there’s no love triangles at least any messy ones like with Mary Margaret/David/Kathryn.
I wonder who the men are going to be. I know there are a lot of Mad Swan and Wooden Swan fans out there, but I’m not really a fan of those ships happening.
Emma and Jefferson do have a lot of chemistry, but if they were to happen, it would be too much like Rumbelle and Gosh, imo. Plus, I think they’ll bring his wife back at some point, so I’d rather wait for that to happen then for Jefferson to openly pursue Emma after all that’s happened.
Before Eion Bailey got dropped from regular status, I did think that they were going to do a Bae/Emma/August triangle, which I didn’t like, but it seems unlikely to happen right now since it seems like the show has largely written Pinocchio out. When August’s comes back, I think he might have more to deal with than trying to woo Emma, and I also think when he comes back that he’ll mostly be in Bae’s orbit since I still believe that they knew each other outside of Storybrooke.
Before the spoilers about Snow and Lancelot, I wouldn’t minded a flirtation between him and Emma, but if there was ever anything of a romantic nature between Snow and Lancelot, I would feel weird about Lancelot/Emma. Although again if it’s just a flirtation nothing serious, I guess that wouldn’t be too bad. If he really tries to woo her though after perhaps her mom broke his heart, then I’m not fond of that idea at all.
There’s Quinn, but I know less about him then I do Lancelot right now. He could help her with her magical abilities, so I could see them bonding over that. Unfortunately, I could definitely see a triangle situation already between Bae, Emma, and Quinn since Bae would probably be against magic and Quinn would be for magic. At least from his description though, Quinn might turn out to have a very dark side, so I guess that would leave the writers an easy way out to get to Bae/Emma happening.
Of course, there’s Hook, who I’m sure will try to woo Emma also. I could see her being charmed, at least at first, but I don’t see it going anywhere.
Finally, there’s MR-J’s mysterious man character who I believe to be Bae/Henry’s dad. I didn’t really see his character as the active pursuer type at least not this season because I thought it would be too early for that since I figured that he and Emma would have a lot to resolve first, but then again with the spoilers about “Jack” having a lot of swagger, I guess it could happen. I do want to see her properly wooed especially since I think he has a lot to make up for, but it all seems too soon right now. I guess we’ll see.
ETA: I just had a thought. Do you think Jennifer Morrison said that the quote about men as some kind of message to the rabid SwanQueen shippers like either “cool it with thinking it’s going to be canon” or “I didn’t say any of those men would be successful, wink, wink”? Oh god, I can’t believe I even thought of it in that context. 😕
[adrotate group="5"]I think there is zero chance of SwanQueen. I mean how would that even work. Would that mean Emma is not able to have a good relationship with Snow because i just don’t see how it is possible for Regina and Snow to have a happy time relationship. I know i don’t want that to happen. Also it seems like Emma likes men from all that we have seen. Trying to kill someone does not usually equate to hey we are in love. I think that if it weren’t for the caveat that killing Emma would break the curse, Regina would have killed her already.
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I wonder who the men are going to be. I know there are a lot of Mad Swan and Wooden Swan fans out there, but I’m not really a fan of those ships happening.
Emma and Jefferson do have a lot of chemistry, but if they were to happen, it would be too much like Rumbelle and Gosh, imo. Plus, I think they’ll bring his wife back at some point, so I’d rather wait for that to happen then for Jefferson to openly pursue Emma after all that’s happened.
Before Eion Bailey got dropped from regular status, I did think that they were going to do a Bae/Emma/August triangle, which I didn’t like, but it seems unlikely to happen right now since it seems like the show has largely written Pinocchio out. When August’s comes back, I think he might have more to deal with than trying to woo Emma, and I also think when he comes back that he’ll mostly be in Bae’s orbit since I still believe that they knew each other outside of Storybrooke.
Before the spoilers about Snow and Lancelot, I wouldn’t minded a flirtation between him and Emma, but if there was ever anything of a romantic nature between Snow and Lancelot, I would feel weird about Lancelot/Emma. Although again if it’s just a flirtation nothing serious, I guess that wouldn’t be too bad. If he really tries to woo her though after perhaps her mom broke his heart, then I’m not fond of that idea at all.
There’s Quinn, but I know less about him then I do Lancelot right now. He could help her with her magical abilities, so I could see them bonding over that. Unfortunately, I could definitely see a triangle situation already between Bae, Emma, and Quinn since Bae would probably be against magic and Quinn would be for magic. At least from his description though, Quinn might turn out to have a very dark side, so I guess that would leave the writers an easy way out to get to Bae/Emma happening.
Of course, there’s Hook, who I’m sure will try to woo Emma also. I could see her being charmed, at least at first, but I don’t see it going anywhere.
Finally, there’s MR-J’s mysterious man character who I believe to be Bae/Henry’s dad. I didn’t really see his character as the active pursuer type at least not this season because I thought it would be too early for that since I figured that he and Emma would have a lot to resolve first, but then again with the spoilers about “Jack” having a lot of swagger, I guess it could happen. I do want to see her properly wooed especially since I think he has a lot to make up for, but it all seems too soon right now. I guess we’ll see.
ETA: I just had a thought. Do you think Jennifer Morrison said that the quote about men as some kind of message to the rabid SwanQueen shippers like either “cool it with thinking it’s going to be canon” or “I didn’t say any of those men would be successful, wink, wink”? Oh god, I can’t believe I even thought of it in that context. 😕
I agree with you on the above (guy wise).
SwanQueen – For the reasons you stated it’d never happen- so I REALLY hope they dont go there!!!!!
SwanQueen – For the reasons you stated it’d never happen- so I REALLY hope they dont go there!!!!!
I compleatly agree, but I do hope sometime within the next few sesons it gets to a point where Regina isn’t the big bad, and when that happens I would like to see them become something like friendenimes. After all that’s happened and will happen, one truth remains–Henry has two moms (even if it’s not in the way some seem to want) and they will have to come to turmes with that eventually.
MR-J’s mysterious man character who I believe to be Bae/Henry’s dad. I didn’t really see his character as the active pursuer type at least not this season because I thought it would be too early for that since I figured that he and Emma would have a lot to resolve first,
That’s a good point. I’m a big fan of the Emma/Bae (as Henry’s dad) possibilites, but I wouldn’t want it to happen too early. Honestly, I think that when he comes to storybrook it will be about Rumple and not about Emma (or Henry), he might not even know Emma would be there–that depends, of course, on how much he knew about storybrook before hand.
Of course, there’s Hook, who I’m sure will try to woo Emma also. I could see her being charmed, at least at first, but I don’t see it going anywhere.
I’d kind of rather not see this. There is so much romantic potental else where and I really don’t want to see this become one of those shows where every male charcter, that isn’t related to her or gay, is attracted to the leading lady. It kind of becomes unbelieveable at that point.
I could definitely see a triangle situation already between Bae, Emma, and Quinn since Bae would probably be against magic and Quinn would be for magic. At least from his description though, Quinn might turn out to have a very dark side, so I guess that would leave the writers an easy way out to get to Bae/Emma happening.
That has promise. Even if Bae and Emma are not togher at that point and still resolving stuff, i could totally see Bae being the only one that knows about Quinn’s darkside for whatever reasion and not wanting him around Henry… Now i’m getting excited to see him in papa wolf mode.
When August’s comes back, I think he might have more to deal with than trying to woo Emma,
and i’ve always pictured it as more of a brother/sister kind of thing
Emma and Jefferson do have a lot of chemistry, but if they were to happen, it would be too much like Rumbelle and Gosh, imo. Plus, I think they’ll bring his wife back at some point, so I’d rather wait for that to happen then for Jefferson to openly pursue Emma after all that’s happened.
I kind of think his wife is Alice and she is the blound patent locked mentioned in archie’s notes (but i have nothing to back that up). Either way, i would like to see him and Grace’s mother get back togher because he didn’t actually say she died.
BUT i would like to see more Jefferson/Emma interaction. It’s just too good not to. And Jefferson is the most nutral character on the show yet. He’s too much of a wild card to to play him sometimes.
Exclusive: Once Upon A Time’s Evil Queen Lana Parrilla Talks Season 2, a Softer Regina, and More
Fans of Once Upon A Time know Lana Parrilla by different names, for them she is the Evil Queen/ Regina Mills. Thanks to her curse, audiences were able to meet and fall in love with Storybrooke and its inhabitants last season. But it’s all about to change now that the curse has been broken. So where does that leave our lovely Queen this new season?
TV Equals got a chance to talk to the Queen herself, Lana Parrilla, and ask her about all our burningquestions. While she couldn’t reveal too much, she did share some great insight as to Regina’s state of mind this season, as well as teased what’s coming up for Storybrooke.
Can you talk about some of the changes in the second season, since the curse is now broken and there’s a whole new storyline?
Lana Parrilla: Yes. Well, there’s a lot of new characters that have joined our cast, and that’s going to be interesting. I known that some people have seen some teasers of Captain Hook. That’s already been out there. We have Aurora and Mulan. There’s a lot of different new stories to tell. It’s a bigger season, visually and also cast wise. There’s a ton of new stories. I can’t give them away, but I just don’t even know where to begin. It feels like a different season, even, for some of the actors that did the completefirst season. There’s a different energy about this year.So where does that leave Regina, and is she even called Regina now, or maybe just the Evil Queen?
Lana Parrilla: She’s called a few different things, which are inappropriate to say. But she’s called Regina still. Your Highness. Your Majesty. She’s not in a great place, let’s say. The curse is broken and the cat’s out of the bag. Everyone knows who she is, and they want justice and rightfully so. She is going to have to fight long and hard for a couple of things. One, most importantly, her son, Henry. I think that is pretty much the main focus of this character in the second season at this time. She’s lost her son, and that comes with [some] challenges. She’s less concerned with the curse being broken right now, as she is with getting her son back, and she realizes that it’s something that not many people see. I see it because I play the character, but she’s a very hard, a very loyal, committed person and I mean this in the sense that when you think about her love for Daniel, in the first season, she does everything after the point when he dies to get back at Snow White for him. She’s really kind of hung up over [it] and [it’s] very similar with Henry. Losing Henry, I think if she doesn’t get Henry for the next twenty years, she will not stop clawing and fighting for that person. [That’s what] I saw in the character in the second season, and [she is] also extremely resilient.Are we going to be staying in Storybrooke, or is there talk of them trying to get back to Fairy Tale Land?
Lana Parrilla: How do I answer this question? As we saw in the first season, there’re multiple flashbacks every episode where we go into Fairy Tale Land. That kind of storytelling does not change. We do still have our flashbacks. There’s an episode, a couple of episodes that I’ve shot with Ginny [Goodwin] and Robert [Carlyle] where we are back in Fairy Tale Land. We’re kind of picking up where we left off in certain moments, and then obviously back a second time in Storybrooke. [Some of these storylines are] mind blowing. I sit here reading these scripts, like, ‘They are geniuses.’ They really are, these guys. They are some of the best storytellers on television, or out there. I don’t know how they do it.In terms of approaching your part this year, has anything changed for you as an actress?
Lana Parrilla: There’s a softer quality to my character this year. So, I’ve always been very mindful to keep her vulnerable and grounded and more human, and show the deeper complexities and not just get caught up in the funness of playing the Evil Queen, because it is fun. But there’s more to her. This season there are elements of [fears and doubts], but then there’s an honesty in the character that we’ve never seen before. She’s not as gamey, as of right now. She’s really trying to do the right thing, and she feels like a different character. I think it’s just a different side to her. There are a couple of episodes where you will see, and I can only give this away because it’s in the promos, that Regina in Storybrooke does dabble into the magic and tries to use it to get Henry back. But something else is happening as well with her. She’s really trying to get honest, not only with herself but with others around her.If you had a sort of ‘Freaky Friday’ episode where you swapped bodies with someone, who would you want Regina to swap bodies with?
Lana Parrilla: Well, the Mad Hatter has been one of my favorite characters on the show. I just like what his character can do, can travel from land to land. That’s one that I’d be interested in, but I think another would be Captain Hook. I think it’d be fun to play Captain Hook. I have to clarify that I haven’t worked with him yet, and I haven’t seen any footage, but just reading his story is interesting. He’s a good villain. I wouldn’t want to switch with the princess or anything like that. I like playing the villain. If I was going to swap bodies it would be with another villain.Do you have a message for the fans as we head into the second season?
Lana Parrilla: I would say just hang on tight and buckle your seat belts because you’re going to on a fast and furious ride.If you could guest star on any other show, which one would it be?
Lana Parrilla: I’m such a fan of so many old shows that I go into my head. I’m like, ‘The Honeymooners.’ That’s so old. Current. I would say, I think, ‘Mad Men’ would be fun, or ‘Game of Thrones’ is really interesting to me, or no. Scratch that. ‘American Horror Story.’That’s quite a switch.
Lana Parrilla: Yeah. I’d love to be on that show. It would be cool.Once Upon a Time returns for its second season on Sunday, September 30th, at 8pm on ABC.
http://www.tvequals.com/2012/09/26/exclusive-once-upon-a-times-evil-queen-lana-parrilla-talks-season-2-a-softer-regina-and-more/"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
JOSH DALLAS LIVES A FAIRY TALE AS PRINCE CHARMING ON ‘ONCE UPON A TIME’
Josh Dallas is very busy on the set of his hit ABC show—as he puts it, “My life is ‘Once Upon a Time,’ all the time.” The actor, who broke through with last year’s “Thor,” is calling in from the Vancouver mere days before the show’s season two premiere on Sept. 30. The job has kept him so busy, he was unable to reprise his role of Fandral in the upcoming “Thor 2,” a part that has instead gone to Zachary Levi. But there are no hard feelings; Dallas couldn’t be happier on the show.
What can you tell us about season two?
Josh Dallas: It’s an exciting season. The episodes seem to be bigger, more complicated, more epic than last season. A big theme of this season, particularly for David, is redemption. He’s trying to right a lot of the hurt he caused to people. The curse is lifted, we all remember who we are, and we all remember what we lost. So there’s a lot of complicated feelings going on this season.How did you go about landing the role? Is it true this was your first pilot season?
Dallas: It was. I lived in London for about 11 years and had just come to L.A. two years ago. So it was my first experience with pilot season in L.A. I was reading a lot of scripts, and this one kept coming up. I didn’t read it. They sent it to me twice, and there were just other things I was looking at. When I finally read it, I thought it was the most unique script I had read that season. It was so unlike anything I’d ever seen on TV, and I wanted to be part of it.How quickly did it happen?
Dallas: I think I came in on the very last day of the casting process. I met with the creators, Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, and tested that day. I got it that evening, and started shooting the pilot a couple weeks later. It was a wonderful gift.Just so you know, it’s always that easy.
Dallas: (Laughing) Is it? Thank God! I might be doing this a little longer, then!Playing a fairy tale hero, did you ever worry that it would be difficult to make him interesting?
Dallas: Oh yeah, of course. I think that’s why I didn’t read the pilot at first. I heard “fairy tales” and it wasn’t what I was focused on. I’d just done “Thor,” a big fantasy epic, and thought maybe this wasn’t for me. I was thinking of Prince Charming in the Disney movies, and while he is lovely and sings very nicely, there isn’t much to him in those films. It’s a testament to the writers that the way they write for these characters is so interesting and different. It gives you an opportunity to take someone who’s not a cardboard cutout and bring a real emotional depth.How did a guy born in Kentucky end up training in England?
Dallas: I was involved with my theater program in high school and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools. Mostly in America, but England happened to be there, and they saw me in a show. I auditioned for them the next day, and they ended up offering me the scholarship they give to one American every three years. It was an amazing opportunity, and they paid for everything. At 18, I hadn’t been out of Kentucky all that much, let alone the country, so I jumped.What was England like for you? Were there any big cultural differences?
Dallas: The biggest one was that here we say, “What’s up?” or, “How’s it going?” Over there they say, “You all right?” At first, I kept thinking there was something wrong with me. “What? I’m fine!” But they were very nice to me; they embraced my American-ness.You’re unable to return for “Thor 2” because of your “Once Upon a Time” shooting schedule. Was that a big disappointment?
Dallas: It was a bummer that we couldn’t make it work out, but I’ve got the best job on TV. I call it Rich Man’s Problems. I’m sad I won’t be continuing adventures in Asgard, but it feels pretty good to be Prince Charming-slash-David.Have you ever met your replacement, Zachary Levi?
Dallas: I have! I met him for the first time at Comic-Con this year. He seems like a really great guy, and I wish him all the best with “Thor 2.” I think he’s going to do a smashing job with it. I think he’ll bring a lot of fun to Fandral.
http://www.backstage.com/interview/josh-dallas-lives-fairy-tale-prince-charming-once-upon-time/"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Q&A With Jennifer Morrison of ‘Once Upon a Time’
“Once Upon a Time” returns to ABC on Sunday, Sept. 30, and when it does, the magic will also be back in Storybrooke, as the curse was broken at the end of last season.
MSN TV spoke with Jennifer Morrison, the actress who portrays Emma Swan, the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, now that she heroically has broken the Evil Queen’s spell over the town and its people.MSN TV: What can you tell fans about the Season 2 premiere of “Once Upon a Time”?
Jennifer Morrison: Oh my gosh! So much has happened. I don’t even know where to start! [Laughs] we pick up right where we leave off in terms of everyone being hit with their memories of their true identity, so we really hit the ground running because we pick up exactly where we ended.There are certain repercussions with Regina (Lana Parrilla) in terms of how people feel about the fact that she’s responsible for taking their lives away for the last 28 years.
We kind of also kind of then launch into a whole different level of conflicts. … There’s a group of people who want revenge and want to go after her and a group of people who don’t want to stoop to her level and sort of want to take the high road and settle this in a way where she pays for her actions but isn’t necessarily lynched by a mob. There’s sort of two factions in town that are at odds with each other, and then both factions are at odds with her. So we kind of launch into a tremendous amount of conflict immediately that involves pretty much every character.
Now that everyone knows who they really are, how will relationships change, especially with Emma, Mary Margaret/Snow White and David/Prince Charming?
Yeah, everything changes drastically. By removing this element of the curse, people are suddenly truly themselves again, which sort of opens up the world emotionally. In the first season there was always a balance of, OK, well, Snow White would do this, but Mary Margaret wouldn’t because the curse makes her different. Now that the element is removed and people aren’t controlled by the curse, there’s just so much more room for emotions to be at the surface and to be raw and to be expressed with confidence. It just sort of immediately heightens the stakes for each character.Obviously there’s a lot for Emma to try to process because, first of all, the amount of proof it took for her to believe [in the curse]. Now she has the proof, but just even having the proof doesn’t mean she accepts it all. She’s still processing all that and in the midst of all this conflict that starts immediately. It’s this constant push and pull of emotional events and also so much going on already. I feel like Emma is trying to handle all these things that are happening to her in the midst of trying to make sure that the town doesn’t fall apart and Henry is still safe and that things are going to be OK. It’s definitely going to be a lot all at once.
Is Emma going to try to get custody of Henry?
Yeah. She was already sort of headed that way at the end of the first season in terms of realizing of trying to find a way where both her and Regina could be in Henry’s life, and there was a point where she sort of gave up on that idea. There’s definitely potential that she’s going to continue heading down that path [of wanting custody.]Did you change your approach of how you portray Emma this season now that she’s a believer when it comes to the curse and the fairy-tale land?
Well, for me, you know, it’s interesting because even though she’s a believer, she hasn’t lost her skepticism. That’s what’s kept her alive her whole life. She’s been through so much with being in the foster system and going through times when she didn’t have shelter and was on the streets and was in jail and all the things in her past. Nobody’s ever been nice to her in her past. … Possibly the only exception to that now is Mary Margaret, but that relationship is immediately complicated by the fact that she’s my mother! So she’s definitely going to maintain her skepticism.… I think what’s different is that she does feel like she has a world in which she can start to figure out how to be an emotional being — being surrounded by people who don’t seem to be interested in abandoning her any longer. Once she gets to a place where she can start to believe that’s true, then she can start to handle things that she emotionally could never handle before. Her first reaction is to shut down. Her second reaction is to make a joke out of it, and her third reaction is to try to process it and figure out how she’s going to deal with it. You’re going to see her go through that process over and over and over again.
Some of your fans sent in your questions they wanted me to ask. Karolin wants to know what you like most about playing Emma and what has been your favorite episode been to shoot.
I’d say what I enjoy most is that there’s just so many different parts of her. In order for her to be a survivor she’s had to adapt in every situation in order to find a way of fitting in. That means I get to play a huge spectrum of different emotions and different sides of her. She’s at times incredibly tough and unapproachable. Then there’s times when she’s incredibly vulnerable and open and almost like a little girl and she’s everything in between. As an actor, with writing like that, it’s really, really fun.In the first season, I liked Episode 7, where the sheriff died. I didn’t like the fact that he died, but I just thought that story line was the first time Emma kind of got to be vulnerable in front of everyone. I also enjoyed Episode 17 as well, which was the Mad Hatter episode. I felt like because I was kidnapped and taken to the middle of the woods, it sort of felt like a play. … We shot all of that in one day, and it felt like doing a play for one day, so that was really fun.
This season [Episode] 5 is really cool. I’m actually not in 5, but that’s when they introduce Captain Hook and explain who he is and where he came from. It’s a huge episode.
And [Episode] 6 has been fun because that’s when you get to see Emma’s backstory. So it was definitely fun to be able to after all these months — to find out what her backstory is and to bring it to life. http://social.entertainment.msn.com/movies/blogs/paralleluniverse-blogpost.aspx?post=79352b8a-8e64-4e99-8df5-fcf25cc7b7f4
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
“Once Upon a Time” returns with Season 2 this Sunday (Sept. 30 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC), and while much of the show’s plot is still shrouded in secrecy, HuffPost TV caught up with star Jennifer Morrison (who plays self-reliant bail bondswoman and curse-breaker extraordinaire, Emma Swan) to talk about what’s coming up for her character and the direction the magical show is taking in its sophomore season.
After interviewing Morrison, we were able to watch the first episode of Season 2, and while we’re not able to reveal anything about the plot for fear of being hunted down and cursed by Regina (Lana Parrilla), we can say that the show confidently catches many of the balls it left in the air during the Season 1 finale, while setting up a number of new mysteries and character dynamics to drive the show forward. Compelling new characters are introduced, tears are shed, and there are a couple of surprisingly hilarious moments courtesy of Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Charming (Josh Dallas). In short, “Once Upon A Time” is firing on all cylinders and is still the most enchanting show of the fall.
But until you can feast your eyes on the episode yourself, read on for Morrison’s perspective on Emma’s reunion with her long-lost parents, whether there will be any flashbacks to her past, and the likelihood of seeing the enigmatic August (a.k.a. Pinocchio) again in Season 2. Caution: Light spoilers ahead.
We’ve seen from the various “Once Upon A Time” Season 2 trailers and clips that have been released that Snow and Charming are very eager to start parenting Emma again, but she’s less eager to be parented. Can you talk about how the dynamic has shifted between them?
It’s one of those things where Emma has spent her whole life looking for her parents, and some part of her believed she was never going to find them. I think oddly, to be completely honest, if she doesn’t find them then she doesn’t have to believe that they gave her up. She could then believe — not that she’d wish that upon anyone — that something terrible happened to them and maybe they weren’t around anymore and maybe that’s why she was given up so she doesn’t have to consider herself “abandoned.” When the reality of what you’ve been searching for all these years suddenly comes to light, there’s a tremendous amount of emotion and confusion that comes rushing in, and Emma is not an emotionally advanced person! [Laughs.] She’s definitely someone who has shut herself down in a lot of ways and wears her armor very thick, and doesn’t really have experience with handling emotions. So when she’s got a rush of feelings going on, her immediate response is to shut down or make a joke because she can’t handle it.Snow and Charming are far more advanced emotionally — they weren’t raised in the foster system, they weren’t abandoned, they didn’t have to survive on their own, barely able to eat or function and do whatever they had to do to survive and end up in jail and all of these things that have happened to Emma! [Laughs.] They have a different capacity for handling emotion and she doesn’t have that. So it’s just going to be a process and it’s going to be a bit complicated for Emma to learn how to handle emotions, handle accepting that this is true, because it’s still an outrageous idea that your parents are Snow White and Prince Charming. She’s really trying, since she has all the proof that this is true, but even with all the proof, it’s still crazy. It’s definitely going to be a complicated process that’s going to be mixed with all sorts of things — sometimes her shutting down, sometimes her being super emotional, sometimes making a joke out of it. It really is the beginning of a journey with Emma learning to be a healthy person emotionally.
Emma and Mary Margaret were already very close, so how is their relationship going to evolve?
There’s a lot of fun in that, because they’ve been friends first, they’re the same age, and all of a sudden Mary Margaret wants to act like her mom, so Emma’s like “Woah, woah, woah — I’m the one who’s been taking care of you here, you need to chill out.” There’s definitely a lot of fun to be had there; we deal with some very serious stuff, but there’s also a sense of humor about the fact that Emma’s the one who’s been taking care of everyone in Storybrooke for the past few months, and she’s used to being the go-to person and suddenly Mary Margaret is all, “Oh no, I’m badass Snow White, I can handle it and I can take care of you,” and I’m like “Wait, what?” So there’s definitely some very fun conflict that goes on there.Likewise, she and David didn’t spend much time together last season. Are we going to see more of a focus on her getting to know her father?
To be honest, the whole family unit is put into very particular circumstances where one person at a time starts reestablishing a relationship, including Henry getting to know his grandparents. It’s funny — there’s a line in the premiere where Henry’s like, “I guess you’re my grandpa,” and it’s so crazy to call a 28-year-old Josh Dallas “grandpa.” [Laughs.]Recent episode descriptions talk about Emma and Snow ending up transported somewhere else. Can you say anything about their journey or what’s set up in the premiere?
What I can say is that we open the show with everyone picking up exactly where they left off, which is them being hit with memories of their existence in fairytale land. We immediately launch into a tremendous amount of conflict within the town because a certain faction of people want to make Regina pay for what she’s done to them, and then another faction is saying. “Yes, we’re angry, but don’t stoop to their level.” So now we’ve got everyone pitted against each other and out of that conflict, that sort of ends up leaving Emma and Mary Margaret on the run. I can just say that it is the result of the conflict that starts immediately in Episode 1, and they are in a position where they need to be found.Are we going to see any Emma flashbacks or looks into her past the way we saw with the fairytale characters last year?
Yes, and actually it was so funny because at Comic-Con, we teased those opening sequences with those characters in the mist, and we showed a yellow bug and people thought that meant that the bug was a character, but it was actually that they were implying that we were going to flash back to Emma’s life. It was their way of symbolizing that. It’s been really exciting and it’s really fun because we’ve now done an episode where we really do get to see Emma 10 years ago and see the differences between what was going on in her life then and what’s going on in her life now and what’s changed for her physically and emotionally. We sort of see the roots of where this all came from for her.We know that Sebastian Stan is back as Jefferson and “Hat Trick” was such a great episode last year — has Emma had any interaction with him again since then?
We have not, actually. I thought based on the way that they ended it that that would happen. But he’s back and he definitely has an important part in the first two episodes in terms of all the conflict and some of the capacity that they have magic-wise right away, but he has not had any interaction with Emma yet.The last time we saw August [Eion Bailey], he had turned back to wood. Now that the curse has been broken, will we see him again?
I can tell you that we will see him again, but I can’t tell you under what circumstances. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/27/jennifer-morrison-once-upon-a-time-season-2_n_1918426.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=2727120,b=facebookI guess that last spoiler means August is stuck as a piece of wood. 🙁 I haven’t seen Eion Bailey’s name appear in the cast listings for the first three episodes.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Jennifer Morrison interview on “The View”:
http://theview.abc.go.com/video/jennifer-morrison-once-upon-time
The fact that Jennifer suggests Henry’s dad could be Robin Hood pretty much rules him out. I love how Jennifer gets all giggly when it’s speculated who Henry’s dad could be (Peter Pan anybody?). Actually, her laughter could be her nervousness coming out, which makes me think the dad really could be Peter.Lana Parrilla on “Good Morning America”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQOXHg-1hY&feature=player_embeddedGinnifer Goodwin on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”:
part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrD630wlEI&feature=player_embedded
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV3V-pdw-6A&feature=player_embedded"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
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