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I don’t recall the spoiler about Regina trying to turn someone we’ve always thought trustworthy. I do, however, recall a spoiler about someone we think we trust betraying his or her own kind. There was a lot of speculation that it could be the Blue Fairy.
Here’s an interview with Barbara Hershey. I’ve been waiting so long to hear from her about Cora:
Barbara is set to appear in tonight’s and next week’s episodes, as well as returning as Cora in episodes throughout November and December. While her role was initially smaller, it’s since been expanded, giving us a chance to learn more about her interesting character. And learn we shall. Barbara told us that we’ll delve into Cora’s backstory in upcoming episodes: “I do know they’re going to explore – as they do with these characters – why they turned, why she’s the way she is. There’s a whole history with Rumple, I’m sure, that they’re going to explore. I know it’s coming.” And will we will learn Cora’s whereabouts between the time she was pushed into the mirror until she appeared in Mulan’s dungeon in present-day fairytale land? “Yes, you will. But all I can say is that it’s very exciting.”
After seeing Regina attempt to regain her earlier goodness in last week’s episode, I had to ask Barbara whether that internal struggle might come for Cora, or whether she’s a proper villain. Barbara chose the former: “I don’t think Eddie and Adam approach any character as a ‘proper villain’, a mustache-twirling villain. They’ve always said that ‘evil isn’t born, it’s made’. I think when you understand when a character changed – what it was that changed them – it doesn’t excuse the path they’re on, but it does explain it. Hopefully you feel a bit of it, even now, under the surface with Cora. I’m not going to excuse what she does. She does horrible things. She’s very warped and whether she can go anywhere from that – beyond that – I don’t know yet.”
Barbara went on to explain that “For all her terribleness, she, in a very warped way, does love her daughter. We’ve all seen these parents who push their kids in a direction that they don’t want to go in the name of love. Cora is just this mega version of that horror story. From Cora’s point of view she loves her daughter and wants the best for her. Wants what she thinks would make [Regina] happy and free. So yes, she would be hurt [by Regina pushing her into the mirror]. Any mother would.” At the same time, however, “[Cora] is warped. She’s not operating from a healthy place, so I think all of her perceptions are kind of misguided and turned beyond what they should be. She has this line where she says ‘power is freedom’ and I think she means that. She thinks that’s the place for a woman to live and have happiness…not be a victim of circumstance or men, to be in a place where, if you have the power, then you’re free. She wants that for her daughter. [But she’ll also be open to] living vicariously through [Regina’s position in life].”
On a final note, I mentioned a scene from last week’s Once Upon a Time where Regina wanted to give up magic after getting rid of her mother, but Rumple made what were clearly false promises to get her to continue. So how much of Regina and Cora’s paths were because of their own desires for power and how much were as a result of Rumple’s influence. Speculating, Barbara replied that it was “Probably both. The other theme that they had last season was that magic comes with a price. I think that’s what they’re talking about when they say it…that you give up something to be able to have magic. You saw it in the transition of Regina from an innocent girl to the Evil Queen. I imagine something similar happened to Cora. You give up something, I think, for this magic, at least [for] Rumple’s magic. Maybe there’s other magic you don’t give up your soul for.” There is, and it involves fairy dust. But somehow we just don’t see Cora and Regina sprinkling it over things to get their way.
http://www.tvovermind.com/once-upon-a-time-abc/once-upon-a-time-barbara-hershey-cora/[adrotate group="5"]"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
@slurpeez108 wrote:
I don’t recall the spoiler about Regina trying to turn someone we’ve always thought trustworthy. I do, however, recall a spoiler about someone we think we trust betraying his or her own kind. There was a lot of speculation that it could be the Blue Fairy.
Yes, that’s the one I was thinking of, just didn’t remember it quite correctly. My brain is on spoiler and speculation overload these days. 😆
http://www.onceuponatimefans.co.uk/apps/blog/show/19377940-barbara-hershey-teases-cora-s-motivations
Interview about Cora & what we will learn about her this season….. Sadly (because I don’t really want yet another story line on top of the approx 15 ones we already have going which are still open ended) I’m kind of looking forward to seeing how this one plays out.
‘Once Upon’: How Robert Carlyle created Rumpelstiltskin
Once Upon a Time‘s Rumpelstiltskin is arguably broadcast TV’s most extreme character, a devilish, vindictive, childish wizard who offers to fulfill desperate wishes “for a price.” Actor Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, 28 Weeks Later) plays fairy tale land’s Rumple and his sober Storybrooke alter ego Mr. Gold, and put plenty of thought into the creation of both characters. Here’s some secrets about both, and be sure to check out this Sunday’s episode, which features a key Rumple storyline. Also, hey look at this week’s cover of Entertainment Weekly — it’s Once Upon a Time!Origins: “I knew Rumpelstiltskin’s name but I didn’t know anything else about him,” Carlyle says. “Everyone thinks they know Rumpelstiltskin but they don’t really. The lines I was given to perform seemed to be begging to be taken as far from normality as possible. I thought, ‘The braver the [performance] better.’”
The voice: “There’s no way I could speak in my normal voice while looking so extraordinary and while having this bizarre stuff to say,” the actor reasoned. “I tried many different types of voices and the thing that I landed on was completely by chance, really, thanks to my son. He was wandering though the house making these high-pitched voices and sounds I thought, ‘Rumpelstiltskin has a child-like quality to him, he kind of enjoys gleefully tricking people.’”
The reasoning: “He’s 300 years old. He’s met so many people over the years that he’s been impressed and unimpressed by, he’s taken on their voices, he’s taken on their accents and their mannerisms. He’s layered so much he’s lost himself.” Once Upon showrunners Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis point out that every time we meet Rumple in fairy tale land he’s in a slightly different time period and so therefore Carlyle actually uses a slightly different voice every single time to show this gradual layering effect.
Less is more: “One of the things I spoke about with [Horowitz and Kitsis] is that we shouldn’t over-use this character. If you overuse something like Rumple, you begin to see how it works and it becomes less attractive. He’s the kind of character the audience should look forward to seeing, rather than hitting you with it week after week, I don’t think that would work.”
Mr. Gold: “I try to keep him absolutely neutral,” he says. “I almost do [Mr. Gold] in slow motion. It’s the exact opposite of what I’m doing with Rumpelstiltskin. He resonates calm. There’s not many times as an actor you get to play the opposite ends of the scale.”
http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/10/17/robert-carlyle-rumpelstiltskin/
"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
I’m trying to find the interview where H&K stated they will be killing off one of our “much loved” characters! 😯 I’m hoping it’ll be Belle, Blue Red, one of the 7,Hook or Mystery man, as if they kill off Rumple- 1/3 the storyline & mystery goes west & becomes pretty much pointless!
Killing off any of the Charmings- the show will simply suck! Given the show is about a final battle (probably for everyone’s happy ending) & imo- why bother with the show if it just becomes a bunch of villains having a change of heart- boring typical tv if that’s the case! As the main stay good guys loose their happy ever after period, so there is no hope of one for them anymore 🙄
I doubt I’d continue on with the show if they did that to be perfectly honest 😐Regina getting bumped off – their is no ‘grave’ conflict with-in the Charming family nor the hitch to just going all out against a ‘bad guy’ & I kind of like Regina’s character more after We are both 😉 But when seen in a prudential light, she is possibly the only ‘Loved’ main who (especially if redeemed & is killed saving Henry or Snow for instance), could be killed off without killing to much of the story line along with her.
Cora- I’m happy for them to kill off Cora 😆 – only cause she is TWISTED! & as of this moment the super villain of all time 😉 .
Having a potential 4 villains to intertwine is going to get hairy fast & means less screen time with our 6 main characters, esp if 2 or 3 of those villains start to re-evaluate their lives & turn ‘not villainous’ 😉http://www.tvguide.com/News/Once-Upon-Time-Spoilers-Horowitz-Kitsis-1054834.aspx
I’m glad that TV Guide does this and that K&H agree to do so. Another lightning round!
Was it Aurora’s (Sarah Bolger) mother that Regina (Lana Parrilla) was referring to back in Season 1 who got the best of Maleficent (Kristin Bauer)?
Edward Kitsis: Yes.Might we ever see that?
Adam Horowitz: We might!Is there ever a chance for romance between Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and August (Eion Bailey)?
Kitsis: I would say that Emma is definitely going to have some interesting suitors this year, but August has, so far, been such a big brother to her that I’m not sure that those two are meant to be. But it’s a TV show; you never know!
Horowitz: We haven’t seen the last of those two together on the show.Once Upon a Time’s Jane Espenson: Snow and Emma’s journey will be a long one
Would the consequences be as severe if Regina left Storybrooke considering she doesn’t have an alter-ego memory?
Hororwitz: No. It would not be as severe.Will other characters cross into fairy-tale land?
Hororwitz: We take the fifth.Will Belle (Emilie de Ravin) ever confront Regina for locking her up?
Hororwitz: She should!Even though Cora (Barbara Hershey) says she killed Lancelot (Sinqua Walls), have we seen the last of him?
Horowitz: No.
Kitsis: Why does everyone just believe what Cora says? Not one person on the blogs have doubted Cora, as if she’s the most trustworthy character that we have! She’s not Snow White, for God’s sake!Could Cora have good intentions?
Hororwitz: I think everybody thinks they do.Going back to Lancelot, is there a chance of seeing Guinevere or Arthur?
Kitsis: There is a chance of seeing it, perhaps this season, but definitely someday we will.Will we ever see flashbacks to pre-Emma Storybrooke when the curse was intact?
Horowitz: We’re very interested in that period as well.Once Upon a Time: Now that the curse has been broken, the real trouble begins
Will we see how Henry (Jared Gilmore) ended up in Storybrooke?
Kitsis: Yes, it’s just a matter of when.Is King George (Alan Dale) still hell-bent on revenge?
Kitsis: Oh yeah! Keep watching!ETA: I forgot to add that this means FireWood is still possible! 😆 That’s the best ship name ever in OUaT. I’m so happy that it was created at the forums here. Everyone is incredible here. 😀
The best part about FireWood is that no one takes it seriously. It’s like our own little inside joke…
Interview with Raphael aka Archie:
http://smallscreenscoop.com/raphael-sbarge-once-upon-a-time-interview/328480/‘Once Upon’ showrunners reveal which famous characters they’d consider adding
Once Upon a Time is broadening its universe beyond fairy tales this season, adding a historical legend (Mulan) and literary creations (Capt. Hook, Lancelot). So who else might possibly show up in Storybrooke? We ran some Disney-owned and public domain characters past showrunners Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz to get the scoop…
Robin Hood? Kitsis: “Absolutely.” Horowitz: “Definitely in-bounds.”
Tarzan? Kitsis: “Never talked about Tarzan. But in a world where The Jungle Book exists, I don’t know why Tarzan couldn’t either.”
Mickey Mouse? Kitsis: “He’s been on the show — in phone form. I can’t ever see how he’d get on and feel real.”
Genghis Khan? Kitsis: “Probably not. Too historical.”
Capt. Jack Sparrow? Both: [Exasperated sighs]
You both had the same reaction to that. Kitsis: “We loved [Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl] so much. But unless we get Johnny Depp, how could we do Jack Sparrow?” Horowitz: “We can’t do it. He’s Jack Sparrow.” Kitsis: “Unless Johnny Depp [wants to appear on] Once Upon a Time, then we will write Jack Sparrow all day!”
Tom Sawyer? Kitsis: “You never know.” Horowitz: “That’s an interesting one.”
The Little Mermaid? Kitsis: “Absolutely. We’re waiting for the right moment. You don’t want it to be just one episode.” Horowitz: “It’s already woven into the fabric of what we’re doing; the only question is when.”
Achilles? Horowitz: “He’s on the border. Possible.”
Wizard of Oz? Kitsis: “We’ve been talking about Oz since Day 1. Look at the pilot. One of the pages of Henry’s book shows flying monkeys. And in Jefferson’s hat there seemed to be an emerald curtain.” Adam: “Oz is another ‘when,’ not ‘if.’”
Captain Ahab? Horowitz: “I like Ahab.” Kitsis: “You never know.”
Sherlock Holmes? Kitsis: “Here’s something interesting. Originally the sheriff was Sherlock Holmes. He was going to be a detective and his curse was he was in a town with no mystery. So he was this bored sheriff. And there was a rights issue so we could not get it.”
Everybody else is doing it. Horowitz: “Everybody else overcame it.” Kitsis: “But now we’re so in love with the BBC’s Sherlock, I don’t want to even play in that arena. We’ll never have Sherlock unless Benedict Cumberbatch wants to come on.”
Tron? Kitsis: “I could see Alan Bradley being the IT guy in Storybrooke.”
Mary Poppins? Kitsis: “In-bounds, but it won’t be this year.”
Let’s see, what else… Kitsis: “Are we doing Fifty Shades of Grey? Yes!”
http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/10/21/once-upon-jack-sparrow/"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 talks what’s in store for Emma and talks Dr. Whale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmrt3QICPLo&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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