EW 9/29 – Once Upon a Time's Dania Ramirez on new Cinderella

[MatthewPaul]

A new iteration of Cinderella is coming to Once Upon a Time in season 7.

First off: No, OUAT has not simply recast the glass-slippered princess, who was brought to life throughout the first six seasons by Jessy Schram. Instead, the ABC fairy-tale drama is opening up a new storybook, which means we’ll see a different version of Cinderella portrayed by Dania Ramirez.

The “simplest” way to explain it: You, the reader, have already seen different iterations of this character in everyday life. There was the iconic 1950 Disney classic animated version. And the 1997 TV movie-musical starring Brandy Norwood as the titular character. How about Hilary Duff’s modern take in A Cinderella Story. And there’s the recent live-action film starring Lily James. And, of course, we met the aforementioned version of the character in season 1 of OUAT. The list goes on and on. Different cultures also have different versions of the character, like Aschenputtel from the German Brothers Grimm fairy tales, etc. Understand?

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, we’ll meet this iteration of Cinderella in a different Enchanted Forest when she comes across Henry (Andrew J. West), who has been in search of his story after leaving Storybrooke. We know the two eventually fall in love and have a child, Lucy (Alison Fernandez), because she pleaded with Henry to help his family in the season 6 finale. However, what we don’t know is the tale of how Cinderella and Henry fall in love and subsequently end up cursed in the Seattle-based neighborhood of Hyperion Heights. To get some insight on that, EW sat down with Ramirez on the set of OUAT.

Read more here: http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/29/once-upon-a-time-dania-ramirez-cinderella-season-7/

[Ranisha Pitts]

She sounds adorable. I kind of intrigued and somewhat excited to see her first meet up with Henry.

 

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