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Originally Published: 1/19/2012 Share3 The charming Josh Dallas balances TV hit, new film
By Karl Rozemeyer
"It's cold and rainy," Josh Dallas said, speaking by telephone from Vancouver, where he's filming the 15th episode of ABC's hit series "Once Upon a Time." "It's a great place to shoot the show. We have the wilds of Canada that are perfect for fairy-tale land."
The 30-year-old Indiana native plays David Nolan, aka Prince Charming, in "Once Upon a Time," a fresh spin on various beloved fairy-tale characters, all of whom appear both in the forested, enchanted world of fables and in a fictitious, present-day New England town called Storybrooke.
"I've never done series television before," Dallas said, "and the pace is very different. We take about eight days to film an episode. So it's quick."
One might expect Dallas to be used to a quickened pace by now. Only a couple of years ago he was an unknown quantity in Hollywood, having spent more than a decade on the British stage. Then he landed small roles in a couple of British films and television series, including the cult favorite "Dr. Who" (2008), and was intrigued.
"I loved the process of (filmmaking)," Dallas said. "It certainly offered different challenges from theater, but it was something that I started to get a hunger for. It was a natural progression."
He headed for Hollywood to see what opportunities might await him there, and within a week of his return home was offered a supporting role as the dashing swordsman Fandral in the 2011 summer blockbuster "Thor." Then in October nearly 13 million viewers tuned in to watch "Once Upon a Time," and suddenly Dallas was a star of one of the year's most successful new series.
As new episodes of "Once Upon a Time" begin airing this month, Dallas also will be seen on the big screen in "Red Tails," an epic, special-effects-laden war movie from executive producer George Lucas. Set to open nationwide Friday, the movie focuses on the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of black airmen who bravely fought for their country during World War II, despite having to overcome rampant racism in the U.S. military even to get into the air.
Dallas plays Ryan, a white airman aboard a B-25 bomber flying far behind enemy lines in Europe. Initially skeptical of the untested Tuskegee pilots, Ryan is forced to reassess his fellow fighters when his plane runs into trouble and must be escorted to safety by the Tuskegee pilots.
"I read the script, and I wanted to be part of it," the young actor recalled. "It's been a passion project for George Lucas for a long, long time, and it's great to be part of a story that is about breaking down prejudices and becoming unified, which is so important for today."
Dallas, who filmed his scenes at Barrandov Studios in Prague, didn't get to meet the surviving Tuskegee airmen who visited some of the cast at Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in California. In his preparation for the film, however, he did learn surprising facts about government-sanctioned racism during the second World War.
"I read that, during that time, the U.S. government created a pamphlet that basically said that African-Americans were incapable of operating difficult machinery and that by nature they had a lower intelligence, so they couldn't deal with flying an aircraft," he said. "That just blew my mind. I just couldn't believe that this was something printed by the government."
Fortunately less research was required to play an Asgardian god in Kenneth Branagh's "Thor," because Dallas had almost no time to prepare for that role. He had been in Los Angeles for only five days when he was approached to replace Stuart Townsend, who had left the production, as Fandral.
"Walking in on my first day at the studio, Anthony Hopkins was there to shake my hand and said, 'Hi, call me Tony,' " Dallas recalled. "So I felt very secure and supported. I wanted to be part of that incredible cast and to work with Kenneth Branagh. You feel a kind of pressure, because comic-book fans are very protective of these characters and you don't want to do it an injustice.
"Coming into it, I had maybe three days of prep before I started shooting," he said. "It was a Friday, and I started shooting on the Monday. So I had a lot of catching up to do."
Dallas spent the weekend reading "Thor" comics and Shakespeare.
"The way that Ken and Marvel constructed the story was based on 'Henry V,' " he explained. "It's 'Henry V' in a comic book. Ken is very interested in that royal-family dynamic and what happens with it behind closed doors."
Stan Lee, the writer who created Thor, based Fandral on the swashbuckling actor Errol Flynn, so Dallas also put time into watching Flynn movies, closely observing the Australian actor's "verve and the swashbuckling."
"He was a Lothario," the actor said. "He's a good-time kind of guy. Fandral would rather be kicking back with an ale and some beautiful maiden than be out there fighting. But he's loyal to his comrades and to Thor, and will do whatever it takes."
Success in America came suddenly for Dallas, but only after years of preparation. He gives much of the credit to New Albany High School in southern Indiana, which, he said, "has an incredible theater-arts program for high-school students." At 16 his school's theater group presented a play at a festival at which students also got the opportunity to audition for various college programs. Dallas was offered a scholarship to a London-based school.
"It had never even crossed my mind to leave the country," he recalled. "I had hardly been out of Indiana, let alone the United States. Of course there were schools that I was looking at here in the United States, but, when you are that young, you don't really think. Instead I thought that I could travel and study and see the world at the same time. So that is what I did. I took it and ran with it.
"I got to London and lived in that world," Dallas said. "Knock on wood, luck has been on my side."
While he has one eye on the big screen, Dallas' focus for now is on the project at hand, which is "Once Upon a Time." When he read the pilot script, the actor said, he felt immediately that it would either score a hit or bomb spectacularly.
"It could be something that would absolutely not work," he said, "or it could be something that will be very special. I felt that I just had to be part of it."
This version of Prince Charming is anything but a stock fairy-tale character, he added.
"As actors on the show, we get to invent and in some ways re-create these characters and tell you sides of these characters that you didn't know," Dallas said. "It's a great honor that Disney is allowing Snow White to pull a sword and hit Prince Charming with a rock!"
It doesn't hurt that each actor plays a storybook character but also a real-life version of the same role.
"We have our fairy-tale-land parts and then we have our Storybrooke characters," Dallas said. "It's interesting, as an actor, because these characters are essentially the same person but they have different experiences, which makes them slightly different."
At the moment fairy tales are hot in Hollywood: Besides "Once Upon a Time," there is the NBC series "Grimm," a police drama with characters inspired by the tales of the Brothers Grimm.
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Once Upon A Time, Chapter Seven - The Huntsman, Featurette #08
Chapter Seven - The Huntsman from repvid on Vimeo.
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Once Upon a Time: Who's the Evil Queen's Former Love?
Jan 27, 2012 05:58 PM ET
by Natalie Abrams
Giancarlo Esposito, Lana Parrilla
Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the Evil Queen's true love after all?
Once Upon a Time's soulless, heart-crushing Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) once had a love of her own — and it wasn't King Leopold (Richard Schiff), Snow White's father who will be introduced on this week's episode of the ABC drama. To find out who that love could be, TVGuide.com turned to the Queen's right-hand man Sidney (Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito), who also dishes on which fairy tale character the Mirror was before he was in the employ of the Queen.
Based on the promos for this week's episode, Sidney will be trying to help Emma (Jennifer Morrison) take down Regina.
Esposito: One of the wild cards in the story is Sidney. We don't quite know where he stands. Is he a good guy? Is he a bad guy? In this particular episode, you see he takes a stand against the mayor, which is very interesting because she's put him in his job. There is that mystical back story that we have in the fairy tale land that, oftentimes, relates to what we do in the Storybrooke world. This is an interesting episode because it leads to us finding out more about who Sidney really is in both worlds.
If he's turning to Emma, Regina must've really hurt him.
Esposito: As you know, she is totally in control of everything in the Storybrooke world, or at least wants to be. She has really hurt his sensibilities. Sidney is really a guy who has some integrity. He is so wrapped up in the newspaper and wants to be able to tell the truth. This whole storyline is so much about the truth, and she really takes him down. Regina hurts his feelings in such a deep way, but it comes from that other world that we don't yet know about. You'll also find a very big surprise in this episode because all that you see is not really what's real.
Executive producer Adam Horowitz previously said that we'll see who Sidney was before he even became the Mirror. What kind of person was he before then?
Esposito: He was a person who really believed in love and had aspirations and dreams. Because of what happened between he and Regina, that was taken away from him. Now, he's left with bitterness, anger and a desire to change his circumstance. Before that, he was a man that had hope and believed in people and goodness. So we see someone who is broken in many ways trying to find their way back to good.
Lana Parrilla teased that the Evil Queen had a prior love interest in a character we have already met. With you saying something happened between the pair, is it possible he was her lover?
Esposito: Absolutely. I would suggest that there was something a lot deeper between them that didn't go quite the way it was supposed to. Nothing is ever as it seems. We're assuming that it went both ways, but maybe it didn't. Maybe it was just another ruse. It is heartbreaking.
Will we recognize whichever fairy tale character Sidney was before he was the Mirror?
Esposito: Oh, I think you will. It's such an interesting transition for this character. He's been enslaved in a different way and he becomes free only to be enslaved in this new way.
What will we see of their back story that helped to create the Evil Queen?
Esposito: It will show how Regina is capable of many things. She's capable of incredible evil. She masks that out of the pain of her own loss, yet she uses that to propel her into a position of power. You'll really begin to see that this Regina, our Evil Queen, is a master manipulator.
How will Sidney help to break the curse?
Esposito: I don't know that he will yet. Everyone is just struggling to break the curse because they're stuck in the world of Storybrooke and don't know why. Deep down inside them, they yearn to know and want their freedom. I think all the characters, true to the show, will have the opportunity to experience a brief knowledge or wisp of the past which gives them the desire to get out. I think Sidney will help in many ways because he's so important to the community in writing the paper, so there's ultimately great opportunities for him to be the Paul Revere.
Which character do you think Sidney was before he became the Mirror?
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Jared Gilmore from ABC's "Once Upon A Time" on Radio Disney
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Chapter Eight - Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin/Mr Gold, the show's most mysterious and frightening character is profiled by creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.Chapter Eight - Rumpelstiltskin from repvid on Vimeo.
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PRESS RELEASE - ENTERTAINMENT - LIVE TWITTER CHAT WITH ONCE UPON A TIME’S JANE ESPENSON (2/12)
CITAZIONELIVE TWITTER CHAT WITH “ONCE UPON A TIME” WRITER/CONSULTING PRODUCER JANE ESPENSON SET TO TAKE PLACE ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Fans of ABC’s hit drama, “Once Upon a Time” will be able to submit questions and receive real-time responses from writer/consulting producer Jane Espenson, who will be up on Twitter at @JaneEspenson during the West Coast broadcast of the show on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12 from 8:00-9:00 p.m., PT. Espenson will also offer commentary and behind-the-scenes anecdotes about working on the show.
On Sunday’s episode, “Skin Deep” – which was written by Espenson -- after Mr. Gold’s house is robbed, Emma keeps a close eye on him when it looks like he wants to track down the criminal and dole out some vigilante justice as payback, and Valentine’s Day finds Mary Margaret, Ruby and Ashley (Jessy Schram, “Falling Skies”) having a girls’ night out. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, Belle (Emilie de Ravin, “Lost”) agrees to a fateful deal to give up her freedom in order to save her town from the horrors of the Ogre war.
“Once Upon a Time” stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Jared Gilmore as Henry Mills, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David and Raphael Sbarge as Jiminy Cricket/Archie Hopper.
For more information on “Once Upon a Time,” visit ABC.com/Once
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PaleyFest Update: Once Upon a Time Panel's Cast of Characters Is Revealed
Matt Webb Mitovich
A fairy good turnout is shaping up for Once Upon a Time‘s PaleyFest panel to be held next month at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.
Thus far, series stars Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Carlyle, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas and Raphael Sbarge are set to join executive producers Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz and Steve Pearlman for the March 4 panel discussion, which will be moderated by, well, me. [Insert "Prince Charming" joke here.]
PaleyFest2012 will kick off March 2 with an American Horrror Story panel, followed by Community, Once, New Girl, The Office and then Bones (to be moderated by TVLine Editor-in-Chief Michael Ausiello).
The second week leads with Castle (on March 9), followed by The Vampire Diaries, Revenge, Two and a Half Men, Mad Men and Modern Family.
The complete day-by-day line-up can be viewed here, while tickets to the Once panel can be reserved here. (You can also submit questions for the cast that, time permitting, I might use.)
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I hope we get lots of information, photos, and/or videos from Paleyfest if most of the cast is going to be there! 
I'll be out of town for this week's Twitter chat with Jane Espenson so I'll have to read about it when I get home. Bummed to miss that one!
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A fairy-tale time for 'Once' star Lana Parrilla
By FRAZIER MOORE
NEW YORK (AP) — Lana Parrilla, whose dual roles on the fantasy drama "Once Upon a Time" include the fearsome Evil Queen, wasn't satisfied just knowing her character was evil.
"You can also see she's a tortured soul," says Parrilla, "and I made a very conscious choice to reveal the pain underneath."
While she prepped for her audition, she asked herself: What caused that pain?
"So I did a meditation, and I saw a lot of her past and tapped into it," discovering in the process that "a major betrayal and the loss of someone she deeply loves are what caused the darkness to overtake her, and what caused her need to punish everyone in her life. She doesn't want anyone to be happy, because HER happiness was taken from her."
Parrilla shared her epiphany with the show's co-creators, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, "and they had their own vision which was totally in line with mine. Maybe I tapped into THEIR psyches!"
The ABC freshman hit, which airs Sunday at 8 p.m. EST, has a mind-bending premise ("every time I try to pitch this show," Parrilla laughs, "it sounds like I've just smoked something really strong").
In a nutshell: Thanks to the Evil Queen's curse, a number of fairy-tale characters were transported to the contemporary village of Storybrooke, Maine, where they have forgotten their pasts as well-known storybook characters and, now stranded in the artifice of real life, have been denied every fairy-tale character's birthright: the prospect of a happy ending.
The hard-hearted mayor of Storybrooke is Regina, the other character played by Parrilla (pronounced puh-REE-uh). Also starring on the show are Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Robert Carlyle, Jared Gilmore and Jennifer Morrison.
Parrilla, a beautiful brunette with smoldering eyes and a lively, outgoing manner, counts "Once" as her seventh series, which also included short-termers such as "Miami Medical," ''Swingtown" and "Boomtown."
Longevity isn't a priority for her.
"When the script for 'Once' came my way," she says, "I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk. Even if it hadn't gotten picked up as a series, I'm happy to have played this part."
She should have said "parts." She has had to master not one role, but two, "and in the beginning the challenge was finding their voices and how to make them different. I wanted the queen's voice to have a deeper resonance and for her to have a freedom in her body — she's fierce, she's bold. Regina, I think, is much more calculated. She's a politician. She has to keep her emotions in check."
Even now, switching back and forth between the characters can be dizzying.
Literally: Playing the Evil Queen, Parrilla performs in a cavernous studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, with few sets or props, instead dominated by a sprawling green screen.
"After 16 hours on a green-screen stage, your head is literally spinning," she says with a laugh. "Most of the queen's scenes take place in the palace," which is virtual: "No walls. No corridor. No fireplace. It's huge, that stage, with nothing to hold onto."
But it's not as if she doesn't love to play pretend, and always has, even as a child back in Brooklyn.
"I played lots of fantasy games," recalls the 34-year-old actress. "I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them. So it's not that different as an adult. I figure if I did it then, I can do it now. But I hadn't had to use that part of my brain in a long time."
Her active imagination was nurtured by her father, the late Sam Parrilla, a professional baseball player who had a bit of the comedian in him: While on the road (he played briefly for the Philadelphia Phillies, and later became a scout), he created a character named Popito to speak to little Lana on the phone. Lana, of course, never saw Popito, but pictured him as shy, with a stutter, and tiny, living under the couch as her father's traveling companion.
"But he's my oldest friend," she says, almost as if she still believes in him.
Parrilla's special brand of faith has served her well, particularly as she settles happily into a mystical show like "Once Upon a Time."
But when asked about the tattoo of a feather on her wrist's underside, she recalls a painful period that put her belief system to the test.
"I was living in L.A. having a hard time, and I had lost faith," she remembers. "I said, 'Send me a sign. Why am I here?'"
At that moment, she was at a local park. She spied a feather dancing in the wind.
"Over the months, I kept seeing more feathers, especially at moments when I was really down and distraught. You ask for signs in your life, but what you get is more like a confirmation: You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath."
It was 11 years ago she saw that first telltale feather, but only three years ago did she get the tattoo.
"I took my time. And now when I look at it, it makes me happy," says Parrilla, who sees life, like her show, as a series of once-upon-a-time events. "It's mine."
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Exclusive Interview: ‘Once’ Creators Tease Big Reveals, Future Storylines & More
Having spent six years as part of the LOST creative staff, Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz are no strangers to working on a hit series. But not even they could have prepared themselves for the success of their freshman drama Once Upon A Time, which, since its fall debut, has taken off in both ratings and critical acclaim.
As a hardcore LOST fan, it’s natural to assume I’m biased when I proclaim that Once is my favorite show. But if you’ve seen even one episode of the intriguing, fairytale-driven drama, it would be hard to argue otherwise. At its halfway point, the first season has already given us shocking moments, major character deaths and head-spinning theories. So what’s next? The Voice Of TV recently chatted with the Once masterminds who, despite keeping things vague, opened up about what we can expect for the rest of the season and what mysteries we may finally get answers to.
The Voice Of TV: First of all, happy belated birthday, Eddy!
Eddy Kitsis: Thank you!
TVoTV: Second of all, congrats on the show and all its success. I’m so happy that it’s become such a hit and it must be amazing to see all the positive feedback. I know that at Comic Con and in interviews prior to the show’s debut, you spoke about why you think people should tune in. Now that you’re established and you have the ratings, what do you think it is that drew people in and has kept them coming back?
Adam Horowitz: I would never presume to get why people watch or don’t watch. All we can do – what we can continue to do since we’ve started – is tell the stories that we think are interesting and cool, and tell them the best way we know how…and hope they come along for the ride. So far, the amount of people who watch the show has been incredibly humbling and gratifying.
TVoTV: You’ve done a really good job of incorporating both a mix of classic fairy tales such as Snow White and Cinderella and more modern fare such as Beauty and the Beast. Can we expect to see other modern stories like Aladdin or The Little Mermaid?
AH: We plan to continue to play with the various mythologies that we’ve already established on the show, and we also plan to dip into a couple of new ones as we move forward. We’re excited about that. We also have some surprises that have been a lot of fun for us to cook up and we hope the audience enjoys them as well.
EK: I think we reserve the right to delve into all of those places. As far as some of those go, we may not get to this year but hopefully some day, we will. We definitely would like to do The Little Mermaid and Rapunzel and Aladdin, and sometimes it’s just a matter of realization.
TVoTV: Right, like making sure it fits in the story and into the scope of the season…and at this point in time, I imagine you’re starting to flesh out the last few episodes. Are some of the mysteries from this year going to carry over, such as the broken glass coffin that we saw hidden under the sink hole?
AH: What we can say is that things like the glass coffin and the stranger – for example, who he is and what he’s doing there – are mysteries that we set up that we fully intend to answer this year. There are obviously ongoing things with the show that, if we’re lucky enough to get another season, we would want to continue…but we really want to kind of complete the story that we set out to tell for this first season.
TVoTV: Do you have an idea of where you want to take the show, given that things look pretty positive in terms of a second season?
EK: Adam and I definitely have an idea of what we want to do for season 2, and hopefully there will be little signs of that at the end of this season and the finale will kind of point towards where we’re going. As far as season 3 and season 4…I mean, we’re kind of giving ourselves freedom. We’re tackling it a season at a time and we have some big overarching things, but we don’t want any of those to restrict creativity. Because sometimes, you’ll think of something that would be great for season 4, but you get to season 4 and you’re like, “You know what, that’s not longer relevant.” So, we don’t want to be slaves to things we thought of three years earlier.
AH: What we’re trying to do is stick with the big ideas we’ve had since we came up with the idea for the show, but as Eddy said, allow ourselves the freedom to figure out the most enjoyable way for us to get to those places.
TVoTV: As someone who is just as interested in the creative side of TV as the performance side, I’m curious to know your method for bringing these stories to life. Do you have a certain process in terms of figuring out what to take from each fairytale?
EK: I think the way we kind of approach it is that we have a rough idea of an episode. For instance, we knew we wanted to do the Cinderella episode and we knew…our twist on it, of course, was that Mr. Gold – or Rumplestiltskin in fairytale land – sent her and made a deal with her. So we usually start with the fairytale side first, and then Storybrooke.
TVoTV: There are so many main cast members and secondary characters that have been explored and the ensemble vibe reminds me a lot of LOST – but I think Once is a little different in that certain characters, such as Emma, Snow and Regina, sort of ground the story. Do you anticipate having a LOST scenario where your main cast changes with the flow of the show, or do you see yourself really sticking to your core characters?
EK: It’s hard to say, because even in LOST, we introduced the tail section, and then we had Desmond and Ben Linus…but we still had Jack and Locke and Sawyer and Kate, and they were the staples and they were our heroes that took us through the story. So for us, Emma and Snow and Charming and Gold…these are core characters. But of course, you always want to bring more people for them to play with.
TVoTV: Let’s touch a little bit on Emma and her relationships. She finally opened up about her feelings just as Graham got killed, so is that going to play a role in how she reacts to other people?
EK: I think Emma’s struggle has always been to allow people in. We always said that Emma is a character looking for a home, because she’s never had one and she doesn’t know what it is. And I think that she’s always walled herself off emotionally, and therefore it’s really not until Henry comes…it’s the first time she starts to let people in. And I think Graham…when he died, it kind of made her remember. It’s a lot easier to not remember people, because then you don’t get hurt. But I think that Emma’s experience through the years, you know, having that wall come down and saying, “Okay, she does have a great friendship with Mary Margaret” – without realizing that’s her mom [laughs.] And beginning to see her care more about her, and becoming more of a mother to Henry. And so it’s slowly chipping away at her walls.
TVoTV: I love all the LOST actors you’ve been bringing into the fold – Alan Dale has been wonderful, and of course you have Emilie de Ravin’s episode coming up this week, which I’m so excited about. Is there a chance we could see more LOST alum in future episodes?
AH: Anything’s possible, but we had such a special experience on that show that anytime we’d want to bring someone over that we’re interested in, it would have to be exactly the right thing that everyone’s really excited about. Like with Emilie [de Ravin], it was just amazing to have her want to do this role, and it was so much fun to kind of come up with it and bring her in to our world here. We’re really excited for people to see her take on Belle.
EK: Obviously, we love all the LOST actors and we’d be honored to write for them again. It would just have to be the right role in the right situation.
TVoTV: Which is understandable! Speaking of casting, one of the strengths of this show is its phenomenal cast. Is there a favorite scene you’ve developed so far that you’ve loved watching come to life? Or something that looked awesome on paper but became even more awesome once certain actors read it?
EK: I would say honestly, every week we feel that. Our cast is so strong and they make Adam and I look so good. Every week and every day when we watch dailies, they just bring something to the material and what’s great is that now, almost a year later – because we’ve been working with them – it’s like we’re all kind of in sync. We have one thing in our mind, they have one thing in their mind, and then it comes together in this third way that’s even better. But we’re constantly mesmerized by what the cast does with the script. We really, truly believe they elevate it.
TVoTV: I love how they’re all just as close in real life as they are when they’re filming…it really comes across on the show.
EK: It’s great. They’re all really good friends and fun to be with, and we’re very lucky in that everyone who works on the show works really hard, including the crew who doesn’t get a lot of credit. They’re in the middle of the forest at 3am! Everyone really works hard because they love the show, and you can’t force that. It just kind of has to happen naturally…and we’ve been very lucky on this one.
TVoTV: Well, let me tell you, it definitely translates…you can tell when a crew and a cast and the writers love their show and put all their effort into making it the best it can be. Are there story lines we can look forward to? I know we’re going to learn more about the Evil Queen and her mother…are we going to see any other developments for our characters?
EK: I think we’re going to see some exciting stuff on the Storybrooke side. We’re going to see stuff develop. And as far as fairytale, we can tell you that we are going to be diving into Little Red Riding Hood’s back story…we are going to be showing you how Grumpy became Grumpy, we will, of course, eventually tell you why the Evil Queen hates Snow White…and we will tell you who the stranger is. We’re planning on a lot of fun episodes coming up.
TVoTV: [laughs] So basically, my head should just be ready to explode because I’m not going to know what to do with all my theories, right?
EK: We can only hope!
Once Upon A Time airs Sunday nights at 8pm on ABC.
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Spoiler Alert! ONCE UPON A TIME Co-Creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz Tackle Your Burning Questions
By Tiffany Vogt on February 28th, 2012
Move over Wisteria Lane, forget you Sunnydale, America has a new address for maddeningly addictive small screen entertainment and its name is Storybrooke. A quirky little town whose denizens — including but not limited to a malevolent mayor, a smarter than your average sheriff and wise beyond her years school teacher — may not be exactly whom they appear to be. Which is precisely why theTVaddict.com was thrilled to be among a select handful of TV types invited to chat with the architects of this little town… little quiet village if you will… to get to the bottom of things. What follows, are 10 answers to burning questions from creator and executive producers Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.
First of all, can you talk about the whole Kathryn missing thing? Might she be in a cell next to Belle in Storybrooke?
EDDY: Kathryn? We can talk about it: it’s “the mystery.”
ADAM: It is the mystery and it is one that is resolved this season.
EDDY: It is the arc that we’re kind of going into that’s going to sort of take us into the end-run of the season.
ADAM: Yeah, towards the mid-end season. But it’s one of those things, David and Mary-Margaret are really fighting the curse to be together and this is just another element in that.
EDDY: I think this will definitely test them.
You keep having Mary-Margaret and David get together only to break up. I know that you need to sustain a series, but do you have a plan for them?
ADAM: We do have a plan for them. We are building to something this season that we are excited to share with you, just not today. But there is a plan and we have a build up that we’re trying to do and we hope people enjoy where we take them.
EDDY: The thing is, the whole story of the show is that Storybrooke is cursed and therefore what we love is that their love is so strong it keeps pulling them together no matter how hard we try to keep them apart. But, of course, the curse has to keep them apart. One of our favorite things is the fact that the audience is mad that David cheated. But he’s married to Snow White, and in Storybrooke he has all this guilt about cheating on Kathryn, but the truth is that’s the curse.
ADAM: Right, and is he cheating on Snow White by being with Kathryn. So to us there is a level of complexity that we’re trying to build with — with these relationship and making it so that nothing’s easy for our characters, so that when they do achieve what we want them to achieve, it’s all the more satisfying. Hopefully.
Now that Henry’s book is back, will there be changes because the book is back and pages have been returned? And how is that going to change things moving forward?
EDDY: I think when we reveal that episode, which will be later in the season, it will shine and inform who the Stranger is. So those pages are sort of his story, you’d say.
ADAM: I’d say what we saw August doing in that episode with putting the pages in the book is the first step in kind of pulling back the onion on who this guy is and what his agenda in Storybrooke is. That’s coming over the next run of episodes.
Is the relationship between Regina and Mr. Gold going to change now that she knows that he knows?
EDDY: I’d say that their relationship is definitely going to change. You’ve got two very untrustworthy people. I think the thing that will be interesting over the next arc of the episodes is “what the hell are they both up to?” And really, what’s Mr. Gold up to?
ADAM: And for us, there’s now the fun of playing them off as people who know each other and know their long history together.
EDDY: The question that I think people forget is in Episode 2, is when the Evil Queen was having trouble enacting the curse, she went to the person who made it, which was Mr. Gold. So the question that I would ask is: why would somebody create a curse that they themselves did not employ and for what reason? And that is a question that we are going to answer this year.
What can you say about the return of Belle?
ADAM: It’s awesome! We’re excited for it. We love, love Emilie so much. We love what she’s done with the character and we’re excited to show you so more with her and there’s more this season.
EDDY: Yeah, she’s got a nice little scene in Episode 14. She’s sitting up there with the person that loves her not realizing it and that would not be someone I’d want to piss off.
In the episode coming up, it seemed like August woke something up in Ruby, if not memories of the past but all she’s ever known is to work at this shop. Might that be August’s doing in Storybrooke? To help people wake up?
ADAM: August’s goal in Storybrooke is one that is going to be revealed very clearly, very shortly. It’s a very specific goal.
EDDY: But I think the question is — it’s kind of like what Henry said in Episode 2: “it’s magic, people don’t remember.” So when you say to Ruby, “How long have you worked at Granny’s?” She’s like, “Forever.” It is because she has no conception of time. But once someone puts it in her head that, “So why do you?” She’s like, “Why do I?”
ADAM: It’s a snowball-effect. Which is to say that Emma arrived in the pilot, the clock started ticking and things started to change. One of the changes was August arriving. There’s a lot of things that have changed in Storybrooke and they have kind of mushroomed-out to what you saw with Ruby at the start of Episode 15, and those effects will continue.
Is Regina now seeing the backlash, like when she enacted the curse she never thought it would actually be her worst nightmare and she hasn’t quite woken up to that fact yet?
EDDY: I think when she enacted it, she enacted it from such an emotional place that she wasn’t thinking clearly, and then she came here and she probably got a little bit bored — and now that Emma’s here, it’s kind of reawakened her passion of revenge and anger. But she’s protecting her son and I think she doesn’t fully understand what she did and I don’t think she understands the repercussions, and I think she’s beginning to lose sight to even why she did it.
About Emma, when we first meet her in the pilot, we see her in the real world doing her job. But now she’s gotten very entrenched in Storybrooke and there doesn’t seem to be any repercussions that she left that life, but does that ever come back into play where she thinks about her life outside of Storybrooke?
ADAM: She definitely thinks about her life outside of Storybrooke, but one of the things about Emma is that a lot of the show for her is about the fact that this is a character who has never had a home, and never really stayed in one place. So that’s something she’s struggling with.
EDDY: What we designed her as is a character looking for home, but since she’s never had one, she doesn’t know what it is when she finds it. So every 2 years she kind of moves and she doesn’t get attached to anything, and she doesn’t get attached to anything because then she can’t be hurt. I think what happens this year is people start to attack that: first, Henry; then Mary-Margaret becomes her first real friend, even though it’s her mom. So I think that she is going to find herself emotionally attached to people and that’s going to freak her out.
Will Henry’s father ever come into play? Is that something you want to do now or somewhere down the line?
ADAM: Further down the line definitely.
EDDY: We could tell you we know who he is.
ADAM: We have a very specific plan for that character.
What can you tell us about where this season is sort of charging towards? Will it be a big cliff-hanger?
ADAM: What we can say without giving away stuff we don’t want to give away is that a lot of the things that we set up in the pilot and the early episodes are things that kind of come to a boil at the end of this season.
ONCE UPON A TIME airs Sundays at 8PM on ABC (7PM on CTV in Canada)
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Once Upon a Time Bosses Preview a Very Grumpy Outing and Tackle 6 Big Questions
by Vlada Gelman
ABC’s Once Upon a Time this Sunday will weave a magical tale about love that might leave you… grumpy?
The episode, which features a guest-starring turn by Angel/Dollhouse alumna Amy Acker as a fairy named Nova, reveals the backstory of Snow White’s crankiest dwarf pal. As the object of Grumpy’s affection, “[Nova] is going to help tell the story of how Grumpy became Grumpy,” says executive producer Eddie Kitsis, who describes the hour as “in the vein of a Pixar [movie].”
As for Emilie de Ravin’s encore as Belle, “She’s got a nice little scene” with Grumpy, continues the EP. “She’s sitting there [alive], with the person who loves her [Rumpelstiltskin] not realizing it, and he would be someone I would not want to piss off.”
Alas, there’s likely to be more heartache ahead for the beast’s beauty, who will be back “probably more towards the end of the season,” reveals Kitsis.
Here’s what Kitsis and fellow showrunner Adam Horowitz had to say about Once‘s other big mysteries, during a recent Q&A:
WHO IS THE STRANGER? AND WHAT HE’S DOING WITH THE BOOK? | Not surprisingly, the answers to these two questions are deeply interconnected. When the consequences of August’s tampering with the book (and him getting it back to Henry) are revealed in a later episode, “it will inform who [he] is,” teases Kitsis. “Those pages are his story, you’d say.” Adds Horowitz: “What we saw August doing in that episode … is the first step in peeling back the onion on who this guy is and what his agenda in Storybrooke is. August’s goal is a very specific goal.” But if you think the handsome mystery man is the author of said book, you might want to guess again. “Who wrote it… will probably be something more for Season 2,” reveals Kitsis.
WILL MARY MARGARET AND DAVID EVER GET TOGETHER? | The Evil Queen’s curse that is keeping them apart, one way or another, is no easy-to-break spell, and as such it will “definitely test them,” says Kitsis. And Kathryn’s vanishing, an arc that will run through several episodes, will only add complications. Horowitz, however, promises that the writers are “building to something this season with [Mary and David] that we’re excited to share with you.”
WHO’S COMING BACK? | All you Sheriff Graham lovers, brace yourselves: A possible encore by Jamie Dornan is up in the air. The producers would absolutely like to have the actor back, but “it is a scheduling thing that is beyond our control,” Kitsis explains. “Right now, we are trying to move Heaven and Earth to hopefully make it happen.” One return TVLine previously scooped is David Anders as Dr. Whale, on March 11. However, “the reveal of who he is [in fairytale land] will not be this season.”
WHO IS HENRY’S FATHER? | That’s another question that won’t be answered until “further down the line” even though the EPs know who he is and “have a very specific plan for that character.” Could he be someone we’ve already seen on the show? While they wouldn’t they wouldn’t confirm or deny the speculation, Horowitz did offer this: “If we do it right, it’s an a-ha moment.”
WHAT IS THE EVIL QUEEN’S BEEF WITH SNOW? | “She just owes her money,” jokes Kitsis. But in all seriousness, keep an eye out for Episode 18, to air in April, because that’s when “you’ll find out why the Evil Queen hates Snow White so much.”
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Once Upon a Time Bosses on Breaking Up Snow White, Prince Charming and More Burning Questions
Mar 3, 2012 12:07 PM ET
by Natalie Abrams
He loves her. He loves her not.
Once Upon a Time has pulled fans of star-crossed lovers Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) and Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) back and forth all season long, as the couple would reunite, only to break up again. Does the show actually have a plan for the iconic couple? We chatted with Once bosses Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis to find out. (And they answered a bunch of other burning questions too!)
You keep bringing Mary and David — aka Snow White and Prince Charming — together only to have them break up again. Do you actually have a bigger plan for them?
Kitsis: The whole idea of the show is that Storybrooke is cursed. Their love is so strong it keeps pulling them together no matter how hard we try to keep them apart. Of course, the curse has to keep them apart. I love that the audience is mad that David cheated, but he's married to Snow White [Laughs]. In Storybrooke, he has all this guilt of cheating on Kathryn (Anastasia Griffith), but the truth is, that's the curse.
Horowitz: Is he cheating on Snow White by being with Kathryn? To us, there's a level of complexity we're trying to build with these relationships and making nothing easy for our characters.
The last we saw of Snow White in the fairytale world, she had erased her own memories. When will you pick up that story again?
Kitsis: [This Sunday's episode] takes place right after the Huntsman released her, so before she's attained all her banditry skills. In fact, there's a scene you'll see, where Red (Meghan Ory) teaches her how to track. Episode 16 [picks] up directly after the episode where she drank the poison.
What can you tell us about Kathryn's disappearance?
Horowitz: It's a mystery and it is one that is resolved this season.
Kitsis: That's going to take us into the end run of the season.
Horowitz: David and Mary Margaret are really fighting a curse to be together and this is another element of that.
Kitsis: This will definitely test them... [Also], Kathryn's disappearance is going to take up a lot of Emma's (Jennifer Morrison) time and test her emotionally.
Will other characters start to wake up?
Kitsis: I would say I'd be pissed if something didn't happen like that. It is a difficult thing. The curse is a strong curse. It can't just be easy. I think we're going to explore those questions definitely going forward.
In Sunday's episode, we'll see August (Eion Bailey) spark something within Red/Ruby. Is that his goal in Storybrooke?
Kitsis: It's like what Henry (Jared Gilmore) said in Episode 2, "It's magic, people don't remember." So when you say to Ruby, "How long have you worked at Granny's?" She's like, "Forever," because she has no conception of time. Once [August] puts it in her head, "Well, why do you?" She's like, "Why do I?"
Horowitz: It's a snowball effect, which is to say that [when] Emma arrived in the pilot, the clock started ticking and things started to change. One of the changes is August arriving. There's a lot of things that have changed in Storybrooke, and they've mushroomed out to things like Ruby at the start of [Sunday's episode] and those affects will continue.
Will we finally learn what horrible thing Snow did to the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) by the end of the season?
Horowitz: Oh yeah.
Kitsis: That is its own episode, and that will be Episode 18. That is the episode where you'll find out why the Evil Queen hates Snow White so much.
Might Regina ever change her mind about the curse?
Horowitz: I suppose anything is possible.
Kitsis: She enacted it in such an emotional place that she wasn't thinking clearly. She came here and probably got a little bored. Now that Emma is here, it's reawakened her passion of revenge and anger. She's protecting her son. I don't think she fully understands what she did. I don't think she understands the repercussions and she's beginning to lose sight of even why she did it.
Is there a way to undo the curse?
Horowitz: Every curse can be broken.
Kitsis: It's just how.
Horowitz: And yes, that is something that will be explored.
What can you tell us about Regina's mother, played by Barbara Hershey?
Kitsis: Evil is not born, it's made. Her mother has a specific viewpoint about the world.
Horowitz: Hopefully, you'll get a great insight into Regina and why she is the way she is.
Now that we've seen a gentler Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle), is he maybe not as bad as we think?
Kitsis: He's a complicated man. It depends where you line up with his interests. He has an agenda and it's whether you're in the way of that agenda or not. A lot of these characters have gray areas. There is some humanity in him.
Horowitz: There's an exploration [in Episode 19] of more about him and his son and what happened there that may hopefully shed a little more light.
What can you tease about Belle's (Emilie de Ravin) return?
Kitsis: She's got a nice little scene in Episode 14. She's sitting up there with the person who loves her [and] not realizing that. That would be someone I would not want to piss off. She's going to be back more toward the end of the season.
Was having Belle end up in the psych ward a nod to crazy squirrel baby Claire of Lost?
Horowitz: I wouldn't say so much a nod as we felt really confident Emilie could pull it off.
Kitsis: We had the idea early in the season to have Belle in the insane asylum, and then when we were talking about who would be the perfect Belle, because... Belle is a strong character, and so we're like, "Oh, it's Emilie." Then we actually debated changing the ending because of the squirrel baby, and then we thought, "No, let's surge. Squirrel baby again!"
Will we meet anymore villains?
Horowitz: In [Sunday's episode], we'll learn who the Big Bad Wolf is. We want to leave the door open for exploring more and more classic villains as we go forward. But that's one example of something coming up.
What can you tell us about Season 2?
Kitsis: We think we have some really unexpected and surprising characters that we would like to explore next year that I don't even think people are thinking about.
Once Upon a Time airs Sundays at 8/7c on ABC.
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Once Upon A Time’s Kitsis & Horowitz Talk Dark Sides, A Happy Evil Queen & More
Craig Byrne
Yesterday, the executive producers and creators of ABC’s Once Upon A Time, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, made an appearance at the WonderCon convention in Anaheim, California, and preceding the Once panel, we were able to talk to the producers in an interview roundtable. We spoke a little bit about themes that we saw in last night’s episode, “Heart Of Darkness,” and discussed more about what we have coming in the show’s future.
At the time of the interview, “Heart Of Darkness” had not yet been seen, and thus, we didn’t know what was going to happen with Snow White’s dark side. When asked about that new aspect of Snow, Kitsis said it’s a way the audience can see what happens “when there’s a void in your heart and you try to fill it.”
“We’ve seen that with the Evil Queen throughout the season, so now we’re going to see what happens with Snow. Because magic comes with a price,” he says. “You saw that in Episode 2, when she was warned, ‘if you enact this curse, you’ll create a void in your heart that you’ll never be able to fill.’ I think if you go back and watch the series, everything she does is to try to fill that,” he continues.
On the subject of the Queen, Adam Horowitz notes that “the Evil Queen is a character with a lot of pain, and we’re going to see where a lot of that pain came from.” Some of her backstory will be explored in Once Upon A Time episode 18, which is titled “The Stable Boy.” Images from the episode were released a few days ago. As to what the episode is about, Kitsis points to a quote from “Heart Of Darkness,” where it is said that evil isn’t born; it’s made. He also promises that “Stable Boy” is “the episode where we find out why she hates Snow White.”
“We’re going to see Regina in a different way than we’ve seen her before. And, yeah. We’re seeing her in blue, and with a smile,” Horowitz adds. Barbara Hershey guest stars in the episode as Cora, the Evil Queen’s mother.
Another character who has changed over the course of the series is Jennifer Morrison’s character, Emma. What has been going on with her and is she still as tough as she was in the series pilot? “We always say she’s a character looking for home, but she’s never had one, so how does she know what that is? For the very first time, she’s let two people bring her wall down. Mary Margaret and Henry. And any time you let someone in emotionally, they can affect you. And that affects the way you look at things. So when your emotions are clouded, it clouds your judgement,” Kitsis explains.
“Emma’s a character who isn’t one who will let herself be pushed around. If she’s being pushed around, you can bet she’s going to push back,” Horowitz adds, although Kitsis reminds us that “every hero has a low moment.”
Kitsis and Horowitz say that Disney has been “very supportive” of their take on iconic fairy tales. “They’ve been very supportive,” Kitsis says. “Obviously at first when they heard there’s eight dwarves and we’ve killed one, they wanted us to talk to them… but they’ve been really great, and they’ve been very supportive. Even from the beginning. I think our pilot was the first time we show Snow White giving birth or wielding a sword on TV. This is the beloved franchise of Disney. Snow White. And they’ve said ‘Okay. Go have fun’.”
As Once Upon A Time nears its first season finale, the next step will be to find out about Season 2. Is there any news to report? Horowitz says they have not officially heard anything, but that the Once team is very optimistic and hopeful. “We have some ideas for what we would love to do if we’re blessed with a second season,” he reveals. One thing we might see in Season 2 will be a tale told just in Storybrooke or just in the fairy tale realm. “It is something we’ve discussed,” Adam says. “It’s got to be the right kind of story. You’re not just doing it for the gimmick of it, but you’re doing it because the story warrants that. It’s a really cool idea.”
Don’t miss a new episode of Once Upon A Time Sunday, March 25 at 8PM on ABC! You can read more of KSiteTV’s Once coverage here and be sure to come talk about the show on our forum! Below you can find images from the upcoming Evil Queen flashback episode, which airs on April 1.
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