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When Once Upon a Time returns for its rebooted seventh season, there’ll be a new villain in town.
With a new iteration of Cinderella (Dania Ramirez) taking center stage comes the introduction of her evil stepmother, Lady Tremaine (Gabrielle Anwar). Driven by a desire for status in both the fairy tale world and in the cursed Seattle-based neighborhood of Hyperion Heights, Lady Tremaine takes the form of a developer trying to push the fairy tale residents out of town in a bid to separate them. It’s the perfect plan for the new curse. But did Lady Tremaine actually cast it? EW turned to Anwar to get the scoop on her new villain.
Read more here: http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/02/once-upon-time-gabrielle-anwar-lady-tremaine/
[adrotate group="5"]She sounds like a mix of Cora and Mayor Mills.
"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
Was the original cast kept in the dark this much as overall storytelling and character arcs? I don’t remember that they were quite this much…
The actors never know what is going on with their characters because the writers don’t know and the writers change their mind and do random stuff all the time.
The actors never know what is going on with their characters because the writers don’t know and the writers change their mind and do random stuff all the time.
But they knew some things didn’t they? I think I recall Lana knowing why EQ hated Snow White early on, or August knowing he was Pinnochio. These actors don’t seem to be acting like they know much of anything.
But they knew some things didn’t they? I think I recall Lana knowing why EQ hated Snow White early on, or August knowing he was Pinnochio. These actors don’t seem to be acting like they know much of anything.
They have been told certain things in advanced in the past. I recall JMo knew that Baelfire was Henry’s father since she filmed the Pilot, or at least very early on during Season 1. MRJ was told that Neal was Baelfire and Rumple’s son at his audition for the role. David Anders said that he knew Dr. Whale was Victor Frankenstein since he was cast in the role, and it was the main reason he wanted to do it. Lana said that she knew that Regina killed Marian early on during 3B.
his audition for the role
MRJ didn`t audition, he was invited by A&E for the role, because they wanted him on the show( rolling my eyes while write this), but yeah, the 1st thing they showed him when he went to their office, was a Rumple poster and told him, that Rumple was his father, MRJ said this year at a paris con, in fact appears that the major storyline they sold him was about Bae and Rumple, and since MRJ was a Robert Carlyle fan, he accepted, just to have the honor of working with him and he also said that several times he asked A&E whne he would film with Bobby, bc they made such a story of Bae and Rumple and he almost never filmed with him, so in a way, this also shows that what they say to actors may end not being true, because they changed their ideas, so instead of being about Bae and Rumple, Neal story was more about Emma, than about Neal, Rumple and Henry.
I think Colin also said he only knew about dark hook, some days before filming the revelation episode.
Not to mention that whole dark Emma, where JMo did research to be a good vilain and in the end her research was for nothing.
I think at the end, they learned from the past mistakes and with the new cast, they probably prefer to keep them in the dark about things, in case they decide to change their ideas about things, in order to avoid having cast members say something in a interview about the character, that may contradict in the future, so is better to be vague about things.
"I offended you with my opinion? Ha, you should hear the ones I keep to myself".
Jennifer Morrison was told that Bae was Henry’s father when they pitched the role to her well before they shot the pilot.
But yeah, the whole Emma being the dark one and the arc really being about Hook being the dark one, none of the actors were told about that. That is why the way Emma behaves at the beginning of that arc has no relation to what happens at the end and is the reason that Hook never acts like he is the dark one, he just acts like his normal villain self.
The writers don’t seem to know their own story and i think a big reason that the actors left the show is because of the way the producers change their mind about stuff at the last minute and just how inconsistent it makes the show. It must be horrible to try and act for the actors who think about their characters backstories and use that as a way to become their character. Really they did nothing with Emma’s original backstory either. In Season 1 it really seemed like she was abused and neglected and not fed as a child. They never showed any of that. They never showed her having a really bad family except for when she was a baby and she first arrived at that group home with Pinocchio, but we know that doesn’t last because Emma was adopted for three years as a baby.
It is just a mess, in my opinion.
I seem to recall that Robert Carlyle also was told early on that Baelfire would be Henry’s dad, and you can see it in Bobby’s performance in how he interacts with Henry especially in Desperate Souls.
Also, I think one of the biggest reasons that Jennifer Morrision left the show is because she sought to gain creative control of her character and to become a producer of the show but was denied, so she walked. I don’t blame her for wanting more control because she saw how poorly the showrunners did.
"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 think that was part of the reason as well. That is why i don’t believe Adam and Eddy that this was the plan. They were still trying to work things out with Jennifer Morrison, but they weren’t willing to make her a producer for whatever reason. I think some actors just go with the flow and don’t care about that stuff, but some need that consistency and backstory information for their acting process and what was happening wasn’t working for her.
The problem being that i imagine the producers don’t want the actors to know what a mess they are in the writing process.
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