Press release 2.22 - And Straight on Til Morning
ON THE SEASON FINALE OF ABC'S "ONCE UPON A TIME"
"And Straight On 'Til Morning" - The inhabitants of Storybrooke brace themselves for the end when Greg and Tamara detonate the trigger Regina had placed within the curse, with the annihilation of the town and its residents imminent; and Mr. Gold mourns the loss of his son, Bae/Neal. Meanwhile, back in Neverland of the past, Hook discovers his connection to a young Bae after he rescues him from the sea and soon realizes that the Lost Boys are in hot pursuit of the boy, on the Season Finale of "Once Upon a Time," SUNDAY, MAY 12 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
"Once Upon a Time" stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O'Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Ruby, and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.
Guest starring are Raphael Sbarge as Archie Hopper/Jiminy Cricket, Lee Arenberg as Leroy/Grumpy, Michael Raymond-James as Neal Cassidy, Beverley Elliott as Granny, David-Paul Grove as Doc, Gabe Khouth as Mr. Clark/Sneezy, Faustino Di Bauda as Sleepy, Jeffrey Kaiser as Dopey, Michael Coleman as Happy, Mig Macario as Bashful, Dylan Schmid as young Baelfire, Ethan Embry as Greg Mendell, Christopher Gauthier as Smee, Sonequa Martin-Green as Tamara, Parker Croft as Felix, Alex Barima as twin one and Jack Diblasio as twin two.
"And Straight On 'Til Morning" was written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz and directed by Dean White.
Press release 2.21 - Second Star to the Right
"Once Upon a Time" stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O'Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Ruby, and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.
Guest starring are David Anders as Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein, Keegan Connor Tracy as Mother Superior/Blue Fairy, Michael Raymond-James as Neal Cassidy, Dylan Schmid as young Baelfire, Ethan Embry as Greg Mendell, Christopher Gauthier as Smee, Sonequa Martin-Green as Tamara, Freya Tingley as Wendy, Benjamin Cook as Michael, William Ainschough as John, Andrew Airlie as George and Karin Inghammar as Mary.
"Second Star to the Right" was written by Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg and directed by Ralph Hemecker.
Once Upon a Time Stars Talk Season Finale
Robert Carlyle (Mr. Gold/Rumplestiltskin): Sneezy, who went over the town line, might be getting his memory back.
Edward Kitsis (executive producer): And if he gets his memory back for a happy dwarf reunion, I wonder what other characters could, too?
Carlyle: There's a lovely moment Emilie de Ravin [Belle] and I shot that Rumpbelle fans will love. But in Once style, it doesn't last long.
Adam Horowitz (executive producer): After two years, these characters are going to a place emotionally and physically different from where they've ever gone before.
Ginnifer Goodwin (Mary Margaret/Snow White): There is something that happens in the finale that breaks a pattern, and I look forward to seeing how that changes the people involved.
Lana Parrilla (Regina/Evil Queen): I love that there's a possibility for Snow and Regina to have a relationship. We're all family.
Kitsis: You all have blood on your hands, but you all have love in your hearts. The question is, what will unite our rivals? Magic's got a price, and it's incredibly heartbreaking.
Josh Dallas (David/Prince Charming): Like the finale of Season 1, this will change it all completely.
TV Guide Magazine: When you learned that Storybrooke was in danger of being destroyed in the finale, what were your thoughts?
Parrilla: I thought, "Poor Steveston" [the British Columbia town that doubles for Storybrooke]. It's made such a living off the show.
Carlyle: I'd be sincerely upset to lose Mr. Gold's shop. I'm very, very protective of it.
Goodwin: Oh, yes, you are! [Whispers] None of the rest of us are allowed to touch anything in there.
Parrilla: Even the props that once belonged to us! Or we'll get hit in the hand with his cane.
TV Guide Magazine: Once Upon a Time has not yet killed off an original main character — compared with, say, The Walking Dead, which has now killed off four.
[Dallas's and Goodwin's eyes widen with horror]
Dallas: You just ruined The Walking Dead for us!
Goodwin: We just started watching Season 2. This is why we will not spoil our final two episodes for our audience! [Laughs]
TV Guide Magazine: Sorry! Eddy and Adam, since you previously worked on Lost, does this finale remind you of any Lost storylines?
Horowitz: As with Lost, the biggest thing we're striving to do each season is find ways to keep the show the same but move it to a new place.
TV Guide Magazine: There's a scene that finds most of you, plus Henry (Jared Gilmore), congregating in the diamond mine. What can you tease about this?
Parrilla: What's surprising about this is the light and dark forces trying to work together for a greater good.
TV Guide Magazine: Does that apply to Mr. Gold as well?
Carlyle: No, no. Not at all. He's in a different place. For him, it's all about getting Belle back.
TV Guide Magazine: What can you say about the introduction of Peter Pan's Neverland?
Kitsis: I can say Neverland will have consequences for, and touch, everyone at this table.
Jennifer Morrison (Emma): That sounds dirty, Eddy. Peter Pan has always been one of my favorites, so I can't wait to meet him.
TV Guide Magazine: With Neverland coming into play, is there a possibility for Emma to capture some of her lost childhood?
Kitsis: The interesting thing is, [Neverland] is about belief and lost youth. And now that Emma is back with her parents, you have a group of people who will never get back the time they lost — including Mr. Gold, who lost a long time with his son [Baelfire]. And a hint for Season 3 is that Emma's job with magic is far from done.
TV Guide Magazine: What about the possibility of the characters getting doused with pixie dust and taking flight?
Kitsis: "You have to believe in fairies" is what I heard.
Parrilla: We'll be flying until the harnesses start to kill our bodies, and then we'll be like, "We don't want to fly anymore!"
TvLine intervjuade Lana Parrilla om kommande avsnitt
TVLINE | I get the feeling that this Sunday, Regina is about to make a very aggressive play.
Yeah, well, it’s no different than all the other Sundays! There’s always something up her sleeve, isn’t there? But this time, Regina is kind of in a desperate situation, so it is slightly different. She senses there is a love that Henry does have for her and because of that, she’s going to fight for that relationship even stronger now. She’s looking for ways to take him away and go elsewhere. Now that she has discovered the magic beans, Regina – in her twisted mind — is conjuring up a plan where she can now use one of these beans to take her and Henry back to The Enchanted Forest.
TVLINE | But just her and Henry, right?
Well, she can’t do it alone — she needs help, and who other than Mr. Captain Hook could be a better partner? So, she’s teaming up with him to try to steal these beans, open a portal and take all three of them back to The Enchanted Forest.
TVLINE | Oh, so she gets a handsome companion as part of the deal. That works out well.
Like I said, some things never change with her.
TVLINE | Last month during our PaleyFest Q&A, you were hankering for more Evil Queen scenes. What can you say about what’s coming up?
Playing Young Regina is always a breath of fresh air, but playing the Evil Queen is just pure fun and excitement for me. There is a lot happening in Fairytale Land [this Sunday], where, once again, Regina is finding ways to kill Snow White — and she‘s quite confused why it’s so difficult. It pretty much takes place right after “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,” Season 1, Episode 7. She had sent the Huntsman to kill Snow White, but he comes back with the heart of a stag, not Snow White’s heart, and she doesn’t understandwhy it’s so difficult to kill this little princess that’s out running around in the forest. So, she meets with the peasants in a village where she knows Snow White is hiding and she offers them a lot of money and gold, opportunities for better lives… and no one budges. No one rats out Snow White. She doesn’t understand why everyone is protecting Snow White and why they don’t love her. She’s the queen, and yet they hate her so much. So, she asks Rumpelstiltskin to disguise her as a villager, and she ends up walking amongst these people and asking about their feelings about the queen. And what she discovers is a very sad thing, how much she is hated. I think that really hurts her. It’s actually a really cool episode; I feel like I got to play a different part, since I’m “in disguise.”
TVLINE | But we see you, while everybody else sees a peasant.
Everyone else sees a peasant… although youdo see me looking pretty ratty. I look like a little ragamuffin. My hair couldn’t have been frizzier; my Puerto Rican side of the family is going to kill me. This is pure kink and weird dreadlocks…. like “Rasta Regina.”
TVLINE | How does seeing how she’s viewed by the villagers affect Regina moving forward? Does she say, “You know what? Maybe I should lighten up a bit”? Or is she like, “You ungrateful bastards…”
She’s more like, “You ungrateful bastards.” [Laughs] Let’s face it, she can do no wrong in her eyes. She’s not as self-aware as you at times would like her to be, or as Regina in Storybrooke is. It’s a journey for this woman. That’s what’s so beautiful, and therein lies the contrast between these two worlds as we go back in time. We’re seeing how she becomes more self-aware and learns how to take responsibility for things. Although, again in Storybrooke, she’s making some dangerous decisions in opening this portal and taking Henry away…. There is this “trigger” that she needs to get her hands on, and I guess you could say “pushing the button” would wipe out all of Storybrooke and kill all the inhabitants.
TVLINE | Decisions, decisions!
Yeah. It’s a clock-ticking episode — kind of what happens in every episode!
TVLINE | [Series creators] Eddy [Kitsis] and Adam [Horowitz] said Regina will be front and center in the Tamara and Greg story, too.
Regina has her suspicions with Greg to begin with. She knows who he is, though she doesn’t really know why he’s here. She suspects that it’s about his father, but there has to be an ulterior motive. Regina has her “Spidey senses” — she’s so intuitive — so I think she’s very suspicious of them. She doesn’t trust them and she knows that there is something else going on.
TVLINE | Do you have a favorite moment from Season 2? You and Barbara Hershey sold the hell out of the brief moment when Regina and Cora looked at each other with such love.
Yeah, some of my favorite moments are with Barbara. In that episode where she dies… at one point, Cora and Regina go flying over the counter and the glass breaks and we end up on the floor…. This was Barbra’s last episode and there were a lot of emotions around it, one being that she is extremely loved and we were going to miss her. I adore her and I miss her still very much, and she had the same feelings. [Once] became a home for her, and she knew that she was going to miss everyone. So after the stunt girls throw themselves over the counter and we pick up with me and Barbara lying on the floor, at one moment she just put her hand on my foot, around my ankle, and said, “I really love you, Lana. I really, really love you.”
TVLINE | Oh my gosh….
It was just like…I could tell it came from a place of a “mother” to her “daughter.” I give Barbara credit for that, because it shows how committed she is to her work and her character. I am very much the same; I think she and I share a very similar instrument, we have the same approach to how we work and I felt like I really had a partner there, and I loved that. And then she said, “Look on the floor….” There was a book that was opened and inside it said, This Is for Love. These are signs and symbols that come to us when we’re working that so many overlook or miss because they’re not in the moment or they just don’t work in that way or they’re not in touch in that way. But I always look for these little signs and symbols that I think are very magical. It was a huge validation and a confirmation that we couldn’t have been paired up better.
That was honestly one of my favorite, most touching moments this season. Another one was the scene with Mary Margaret — Ginny [Goodwin] and myself at the doorstep when Regina rips her heart out. That scene overall I think is extremely powerful on so many levels. I think it was a moment that everyone had been waiting for, and I loved that Regina chose not to kill her.
Then there’s another one coming up which I’m really excited about, in this Sunday’s episode, with Rumpelstiltskin. It’s comedy. Robert [Carlyle] and I have so much fun working together and there’s one scene where it’s just… he looked at me and was like, “I could do this all day!” And I was like, “I could do this forever.” The scene was a ton of fun. I don’t know how it’s going to play out, but I can tell you, in the moment, you had two theatrical actors on a green stage just eating it up, feeling like we were back in the theater again. Those are the moments that we just love. So, those are my three favorite moments.
TVLINE | How would you tease the season finale? What sort of emotions will fans go through in the final moments?
This is always hard… I’m not very good at teasing finales. I think people are going to be very surprised to see the two sides come together and work together for the greater good, light and dark coming together and having to make a decision that is best for everyone included. We’re always separating, it’s always light against dark and dark against light, you know. Good against evil or evil against good. So it’s a very sobering moment in the finale where the audience is going to be very surprised to see some characters have to come together, to work together, to save one another.
NEWS & FEATURES
So, what can fans look forward to in the final three episodes of the season?
Eddy: Well, I think the fans can look forward to kind of the culmination of everything we set up this year. Who are Greg and Tamara, who do they work for, do they work for anyone, what’s their agenda?
Adam: What’s really behind everything they’re doing, and how is that going to impact on every single one of our characters? I think we’re bringing all those things to a head in a way we find exciting, and we think hopefully will be really surprising to the audience as well.
Eddy: We are going to dive more into how Lacy affects Rumpelstiltskin, or Mr. Gold, and how that affects his relationship with his son.
Obviously, Lacy enjoying Rumplestiltskin’s darker side is a bit of a weight off his shoulders, unless, of course, she gets her actual memory back, in which case you’ve got to wonder, is she going to be twice as horrified?
Eddy: Well, it depends what he does when he’s with Lacy, I suppose, you know? Belle brings out the best in Mr. Gold/Rumpelstiltskin, and Lacy brings out the worst, and it’s a lot easier to have someone bring out the worst in you. You get to try a lot less.
So the last two episodes are titled “Second Star to the Right” and “And Straight On ‘Til Morning.”
Adam: (grinning) Just randomly titled. No significance to those titles at all.
Eddy: We are going to be finding out a bit about Baelfire, and Captain Hook. There’s no coincidence with those titles.
Adam: Obviously, we’d like to keep a surprise, but you know, Baelfire/Neal and Hook have a connection that we’ve already hinted at, and that’s something that’s explored in the final two hours of the season. And that may involve a second star to the right.
Fans have been speculating a lot about Neal and his connection to Hook—perhaps in the form of a boy who never grows up?
Eddy: Yes, we could say so far, nobody’s been right.
Adam: Well, that we know of. Our fans are very smart, and maybe they’ve got it, maybe they haven’t, but we hope it’s a surprise. We can confirm he’s not Smee.
Eddy: By the way, I don’t know if you know this or not, but rewatching Peter Pan, which we’ve done on numerous times, the clock, Big Ben, is set to 8:15 in the movie. It’s at 8:14, and when the kids land on it, it goes to 8:15. [NOTE: 8:15 is the time the town's clock in Storybrooke was stuck at before Emma appeared in the first episode of season one.]
Coincidence?
Adam: Or not.
You’ve said that a new character will be teased but not revealed until Season Three.
Eddy: In the final two hours, you will hear about someone, you will think about someone, but you won’t see that someone ’til next year.
Any other big moments to look for?
Eddy: Emma and Regina have a game-changer.
Adam: Their relationship is going to change. It moves to a new place.
You’ve explored this dark spot on Mary Margaret/Snow White’s heart. But I’m curious, don’t we all have dark spots on our heart? Aren’t we all made up a mixture of goodness and darkness?
Eddy: I think a lot of the year was exploring that, where you saw a lot of the villains trying to be good, and you saw a lot of the heroes do some bad things. You saw Emma lie to her son about who his father was, and you saw Snow White kill someone. And at the same time, you saw Regina sacrifice her life so that those two could come back through the portal, and you saw Rumpelstiltskin trying to do the right thing for his son. So I think that’s the truth. Sometimes things aren’t as black as white as you want them to be, and everybody makes mistakes. It’s, how do you come back from the mistakes you make?
Adam: And I think that there’s darkness in everyone, there’s dark impulses and urges that we resist, and I think for Mary Margaret, she finally succumbed and didn’t resist, and that darkness that we actually physically see in our heart is the after effect of succumbing to something she knew was wrong, and yet she did anyway.
Eddy: Well, I think what you’re going to see is how she deals with it, and what is in her mind the way to lighten it, and that’s kind of her quest now.
Now, you actually touched on something I’ve been dying to ask. So Regina did save the lives of Mary Margaret and Emma when she stopped the portal.
Eddy: Yeah, absolutely.
And yet they couldn’t ask her out to dinner that night?
Eddy: [Laughs] The greatest thing was the fact that this is a woman who created a curse that ripped away the happy endings of everyone in town, and in that moment, the audience was like,They can’t invite her to dinner? And the fact that you can have people feeling sorry for the Evil Queen was a victory for us.
You’ve taken great care to expand upon Regina and Rumplestiltskin’s backstories. Is that to show that there’s hope for some kind of redemption?
Eddy: I think so, I think that everyone has the chance for redemption. It’s just a matter of whether or not that’s a path you choose. So for us, villains who are just evil for evil’s sake are boring. We like tortured characters. We said in Season One, evil is not born, it’s made. So for us, if it’s made, then there has to be a way to undo it, and that’s the journey for all of these characters. In the beginning, there was a curse that took away everyone’s happy ending. But what I think people don’t realize is, the queen’s still looking for her happy ending, and Rumpelstiltskin’s still looking for his, and so the show is a journey on whether or not they can achieve it, and what that really is.
Can you talk a little bit about Wonderland?
Adam: Yeah, I mean, it’s premature at this point, but other than to say that, it’s an idea we’ve had, and if it goes forward, it will exist in the universe of Once Upon A Time but be its own thing.
Eddy: Yeah, it’s kind of a romance. And in Once Upon A Time fashion, it’s also a mash-up, so it has Alice and, you know, we’ve shown you the queen, we’ve shown you the Mad Hatter, and we’ve shown you the hookah-smoking caterpillar.
Sebastian Stan [the Mad Hatter]… discuss.
Adam: We love Sebastian Stan, and we have no intention to recast that part. He’s just a very busy man right now. Our door is always open for him.
Back to Once Upon A Time, some of the characters want to stay in Storybrooke, some want to go back to fairy tale land, do we think that there’s a chance for a happy medium?
Eddy: Well, I think there will be a chance for a happy medium. Anton grew those beans for a reason, and that very thing will come into play in the last two hours.
Last year you mentioned you wanted to put in Mulan, and she’s awesome. You’d also mentioned Pocahontas and potentially Ariel. Any chance they may pop up?
Eddy: Ariel could potentially be a Season Three. We’re definitely going to meet new characters.
Adam: We don’t want to give away who we’re planning to meet yet, but…
Eddy: If you watch the finale, you can probably guess who would be there.
Last year you teased we never saw Maleficent’s body after she was killed.
Eddy: Well, we saw, and we will see Maleficent in some form in the final three episodes. In fact, I would watch this week’s episode “The Evil Queen.”
The start of the season was “magic is coming.” How do you feel the season has evolved?
Eddy: I would say this, the theme at the beginning was: magic is coming. And the theme for the finale is: it always has a price.
And what do you hope fans leave the finale thinking?
Eddy: I can’t wait for Season Three!
Press release 2.20 - The Evil Queen
"The Evil Queen" - With the aid of Hook, Regina attempts to put a plan in motion that will help transport herself and Henry back to Fairytale land. But her plan revolves around a fail-safe that was planted within the curse, which if triggered could wipe Storybrooke off the map - and kill all of its inhabitants; and Emma's suspicions about Tamara grow. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, the Evil Queen asks Rumplestiltskin to transform her into an unrecognizable peasant in order to kill an unsuspecting Snow White, with the twisted aim of earning the love and respect of her subjects, on "Once Upon a Time," SUNDAY, APRIL 28 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
"Once Upon a Time" stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O'Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Ruby, and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.
Guest starring are Lee Arenberg as Leroy/Grumpy, Michael Raymond-James as Neal Cassidy, Ethan Embry as Greg Mendell, Sonequa Martin-Green as Tamara, Aleks Paunovic as Berkley, Michael Teigen as Rivers, Hrothgar Mathews as carny, Max Montesi as peasant boy, Bri Neal as peasant girl, William Phillips as peasant man, Jennifer J. Angeli as weaver and Harold Davies as fisherman.
"The Evil Queen" was written by Christine Boylan & Jane Espenson and directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton.
13 nya spoilers - Sammanfattning från Paleyfest
1. The end, revealed: The final two episodes of Season 2 will be a two-parter, entitled “Second Star to the Right” and “Straight on Till Morning.” Considering these are the directions to Neverland, it sounds like we’ll be meeting the Lost boys soon!
2. Not-so Snow White: A tragedy in Sunday’s episode will put Snow White on a path for revenge. “What she is going through is going to shake her self-identity and self-definition,” Goodwin says. “If she is not the Snow White… then she doesn’t know who she is.” Seeing this different side to Mary Margaret will certainly cause some concern in David (Josh Dallas). But “he’s going to be there for her no matter what and support her through everything,” Dallas says. But how dark will Disney let the producers go? “When you see ['The Miller's Daughter'], the answer to that is they’re pretty much letting us do what we want.”
3. Family reunion: After Sunday’s episode, Bae (Michael Raymond-James) will be Storybrooke-bound alongside Rumple (Robert Carlyle), Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and Henry (Jared Gilmore), but whether that means there’s a reconciliation on the horizon remains to be seen. “In Episode 22, there’s a game-changer that really happens in terms of the relationship with his son,” Carlyle teased.
4. Henry’s fate: After the seer told Rumple that a boy would be his undoing, the Dark One will find himself in a very similar position to when he lost his son. “When Rumple was last given a choice between love and power, he let his son go, so the question is, has he learned anything? Or will he let his own grandson go?” Kitsis said. Since semantics was very important to the seer, Horowitz made sure to note, “Is ‘undoing’ a bad thing?”
5. A return to fairy tale land? Now that the key to their return is literally growing in their backyard — Anton’s bean! — the possibility of returning to fairy tale land will become a hot topic in Storybrooke. “As much as David likes electricity, he misses his sword, his horse and his castle,” Kitsis said. “He wants to kill some ogres and wants to rebuild his land. That is something a lot of people will get on board for, but we’ll see what happens.”
6. Captain Hook’s vengeance: Ye ol’ captain will get a taste of revenge in Sunday’s episode, but don’t expect to see him again for a few episodes, considering that Colin O’Donoghue actually broke his leg in real life. When he does return, Kitsis teased it would be in a very surprising way. “He is out for himself,” Kitsis noted.
7. The Evil Queen returns: Though Regina (Lana Parrilla) has made attempts at being good this season, her dark side will really take over in the coming episodes. “Being good didn’t quite work out for Regina,” Parrilla said, noting that part of Regina’s downfall was her need for her mother’s love. But redemption is a thing of the past now. “It’s a little bit behind her now. Regina as the Evil Queen is going to make a comeback in a different way and it’s going to be exciting to see.”
8. A very twisted love triangle: Though some viewers still have hope for Emma and August (Eion Bailey) — whom the producers said will return later this season — most seem to be divided between her chemistry with Hook and her previous relationship with Bae, which seriously makes for a really weird triangle. The Charming parents wouldn’t necessarily stop Emma from reuniting with her former flame. “They want to make sure she has a shot at their happy ending,” Dallas said. But they would in the case of Hook. “I don’t think that we would be too keen on being with someone who shared her baby daddy’s mother’s bed,” Goodwin adds.
9. Welcome to Storybrooke: That’s actually the name of an upcoming episode that will flash back to the first week after the curse was enacted in 1983. The episode will also mark the return of Sheriff Graham (Jamie Dornan) and Billy the Mechanic (Jarod Joseph). “We are going to get more insight into what that was like in that very first week in 1983 and what is was like for the Evil Queen to win,” Kitsis said, adding that we’ll discover why Regina chose to adopt Henry in the episode.
10. The Once spin-off: Despite internet rumors — or maybe because of them — Kitsis and Horowitz said that they do not plan to re-cast the Mad Hatter. Sebastian Stan will still play Jefferson, though they noted that we won’t see him any time soon since Stan is a very busy man.
11. Belle’s getting racy: Remember when David initially woke up from his coma and his cursed alter-ego life finally kicked in? The same will happen to Belle (Emilie de Ravin) in the upcoming episode “Lacey,” which is the name of her cursed alter ego who is the complete opposite of Belle. “Things are going to get a lot more interesting for Mr. Gold,” Kitsis noted, before Parrilla added that Regina may recruit Lacey.
12. A new land: The producers teased that the show will venture to a new land before the end of Season 2. They also teased that we will get more backstory on Hook and Bae, who, we’ll learn into Sunday’s episode, can also sail a pirate ship. Hmm. Considering the final two episode titles, it seems like the show will be venturing to Neverland. But does that mean Bae is Peter Pan?! Kitsis also noted that they’ll tease a new character in that land, but we won’t actually meet him or her until Season 3.
13. Emma’s heart: Why Cora (Barbara Hershey) was unable to rip out Emma’s heart in the midseason finale is easily explained in a Harry Potter-esque way. It was love that protected her heart after she planned to sacrifice herself to save her mother. “Emma proved in that moment that love was strength,” Kitsis said.
2.16 - The Millers Daughter press release
Rose McGowan (“Charmed”) Guest Stars as Younger Cora
“The Miller’s Daughter” - Cora’s desire to rid herself of Rumplestiltskin in order to take his place as The Dark One takes one step closer to becoming reality as she and Regina try to overpower a dying Mr. Gold, and Mary Margaret is once again tempted by dark magic. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, Rumplestiltskin agrees to offer his services to a younger Cora - for a price - when the king calls her bluff and orders her to actually follow through on her boast of being able to spin straw into gold, on “Once Upon a Time,” SUNDAY, MARCH 10 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
“Once Upon a Time” stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O’Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Ruby, and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.
Guest starring are Barbara Hershey as Cora, Michael Raymond-James as Neal Cassidy, Rose McGowan as younger Cora, Gerry Rousseau as father, Joaquim de Almeida as King Xavier, Eva Allan as Princess Eva, Zak Santiago as Prince Henry and Sonequa Martin-Green as Tamara.
“The Miller’s Daughter” was written by Jane Espenson and directed by Ralph Hemecker.
Ytterligare två script teasers
Kommande avsnitt - datum och titlar
March 3rd 2013: 2x15 - The Queen Is Dead
March 10th 2013: 2x16 - The Miller’s Daughter
March 17th 2013: 2x17 - Welcome To Storybrooke
March 24th 2013: 2x18: Selfless, Brave & True
Young Cora makes a deal with Rumplestiltskin
Could this mean that Cora actually agreed to give up Regina to him? Or will it be revealed that she had another child, which she had to give up?
Script teasers 2.15 - The Queen Is Dead
Once Upon a Time recasts Mad Hatter
EXCLUSIVE UPDATED: The Mad Hatter may get his own series. I’ve learned that ABC brass are mulling spinning the character from fairytale drama Once Upon A Time into his own series. I hear ABC’s original plan was to do it with Sebastian Stan, who has played the character in six episodes. But he was not available for the potential series commitment, so the network has quietly put out feelers to recast the role. (Stan is finishing a run in Picnicon Broadway, segueing straight into training for his role in Captain America.)
I hear one scenario has ABC filming a short presentation with the character, with a 13-episode commitment to the project also bandied about. Once creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis are involved. It is also possible that the Mad Hatter returns to Oncefor a guest stint later this season. If the character and his storyline pop (as they have done in the past), that would serve as a backdoor pilot and ABC will consider launching a spinoff centered on the Mad Hatter. If he appears on the show, the new Mad Hatter would be cast as a guest star with a series option behind it. This is not an unusual practice for Once, which casts many guest stars with series options, allowing the network to make them regulars. Actors who have been upgraded to regulars on the show from guest stars include Emile de Ravin (Belle), Meghan Ory (Red Riding Hood), Colin O’Donoghue (Captain Hook). There is anAlice In Wonderland-themed project already in the works for next season — NBC’s drama pilot Wonderland, executive produced by Anthony Zuiker, which was originally set at ABC Studios, the studio behind Once. Its production was recently rolled.
Matt Mitovich ger svar på fråga om Regina
That is totally where I thought this was going, too, but it appears we’re both wrong. As Jennifer Morrison explained to me, “Unfortunately for Regina at this point, she is so wrapped up in her own sort of mess with her mother being in town and the complications of that relationship, and sort of her failing at trying to not use magic, she sort of misses seeing her opportunity [with Henry]. She does make a move to get him back, but she doesn’t necessarily make the most strategic move, based on the circumstances.”
Spoilers 2.15 - The Queen Is Dead
1. Based on what we saw here, Episode 15: "The Queen Is Dead" will reveal some very interesting backstory.
2. "There's no coming back from murder."/"There's no coming back from death, either."
3. Love — familial, romantic, and otherwise — has always been at the heart of OUAT, and nowhere is that as true as this episode.
4. The flashbacks in this episode provide one of our favorite revisions of a classic fairy tale yet, perfectly melding the story we know from legend with the characters and history we know from OUAT.
5. "Magic is about emotion" is a lesson multiple people learn this episode.
6. An unexpected declaration of love is sure to upset some fans.
7. Rumbelle shippers have something to look forward to, but they might shed a few tears.
8. A normally noble character shows an unexpected manipulative streak.
9. Always think your deals through — especially when you make a change.
10. We thought "Manhattan" was Robert Carlyle's best performance to date, but we might have to update that to "The Miller's Daughter." Lana Parrilla (Regina) also does a fantastic job. Heck, most of the main cast gets to show off some serious acting chops this week.
Ny titel 2.20 - "The Evil Queen"
EOnline spoiler om August/Pinocchio
Rejoice, August/Pinocchio fans as Eion Bailey will be returning to the ABC hit series. And we can spill that he will be sharing scenes with Emma’s baby-father and Rumple’s son Neal in New York City, so this begs the question: flashback or present-day confrontation? Hmmm…
Bilder från inspelningarna 13 februari
Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, and Josh Dallas film an emotional scene on the set of their television show Once Upon a Time on Wednesday (February 13) in Vancouver, Canada.
The cast watched on as a character was on the ground!
2.15 - The Queen is Dead press release
MARY MARGARET VOWS TO KEEP RUMPLESTILTSKIN’S DAGGER AWAY FROM CORA AND REGINA, AND THE BLUE FAIRY OFFERS SNOW WHITE AN UNCONVENTIONAL SPELL THAT COULD HELP SAVE HER DYING MOTHER, THE QUEEN, ON ABC’S “ONCE UPON A TIME”
Lesley Nicol (Mrs. Patmore on “Downton Abbey”) Guest Stars as Queen Eva’s Servant, Johanna
“The Queen is Dead” – Upon discovering Cora and Regina’s plan to find and take possession of Rumplestiltskin’s dagger, Mary Margaret, with the aid of David and Mother Superior, makes it her mission to find it first; and while Mr. Gold continues his quest in New York to reunite with son Bae, Hook devises a plan to rid himself of a crocodile. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, the Blue Fairy offers Snow White an unconventional enchantment that could help save her dying mother, Queen Eva, on “Once Upon a Time,” SUNDAY, MARCH 3 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET STV) on the ABC Television Network.
“Once Upon a Time” stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O’Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Ruby, and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.
Guest starring are Barbara Hershey as Cora, Keegan Connor Tracy as Mother Superior/Blue Fairy, Michael Raymond-James as Neal Cassidy, Bailee Madison as young Snow White, Lesley Nicol as Johanna, Rena Sofer as Eva, Duncan Ollerenshaw as royal doctor and Sonequa Martin-Green as Tamara.
“The Queen is Dead” was written by Daniel T. Thomsen & David H. Goodman and directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton.
Entertainment Weekly: Mr. Gold's adventure
Mr. Gold is off on an adventure into a terrifying land he’s never been before — New York. And while Henry certainly enjoys the trek to NYC in this week’s episode of Once Upon a Time, Mr. Gold’s journey to find his son definitely is not going to go smoothly, according to executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. “I would say that ‘Manhattan’ is going to be the showdown that everyone wants to [see],” says Kitsis, referring to Mr. Gold’s reunion with his son. (Also, there are some amazing flashbacks that explain at least one major burning question fans have Gold for a very long time and the ending of the last flashback will send a chill through your spine.)
Kitsis adds that Gold’s confrontation with his son won’t be the only emotional turmoil we should expect in this week’s hour. “Emma is going to be dealing with a lot of emotional baggage [in the next few episodes], I’ll say that,” Kitsis says. “There are a lot of things she needs to get through.”
In related Once news, as I told you this week, August will make a reappearance later this season, and says Horowitz, “We can’t wait for you to see the next phase of his story.” But the rest of the season won’t just be returns from favorite characters. Two words: —i- -o–.
