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As Once Upon A Time returns to UK screens on Channel 5 (Sunday, 9pm), we catch up with Snow White, Prince Charming, Belle and Emma Swan.
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Once Upon A Time ‘s first season finale was the very definition of a gamechanger – and stop reading now if you haven’t watched it yet! The evil curse that sentenced the residents of Fairytale world (aka a land far, far away) to live mundane existences in our reality had formed the entire crux of the show. Then the writers threw us a great big curveball by smashing the curse to smithereens, and colliding their two realities together so that Storybrooke’s townsfolk remembered their fantastical pasts. We spoke to four of the stars to find out what to expect in this brave new world…
First up Snow White, AKA Ginnifer Goodwin…
With the curse being broken, the season one finale changed the rules of the show. Does that make it exciting for you coming into season two?
I’m shocked because I thought the crux of the entire series was going to be that we needed to break this curse. But I think we went so far during the first season that we kind of had no choice but to break the curse. Our creators think so far outside of the box and so much moved forward at such a fast pace that this is exactly what should’ve happened. So I’m satisfied as an audience member is what I’m trying to say. Then as an actress I’m very excited because whereas I thought I was always going to be playing two separate characters, I will now not only being playing those characters in the flashbacks, I will now be an amalgamation of those characters in the present.
How hard is it to play multiple versions of the same character?
It’s a lot easier than I thought it would be. I think it was difficult to establish the differences. I was wrestling with it for a while and in the beginning I tried to create Mary Margaret as a sort of polar opposite of Snow White, but then I realised that that isn’t necessarily what it is. Whereas Snow White for instance is fiercely optimistic and has faith, I realised that to be self-indulgent in some kind of depression or pessimism would have been too satisfying a state, because that self-indulgence itself would have been satisfying – and the Evil Queen instead would want instead for Mary Margaret to always almost be happy and then push her own happiness away, to find an excuse not to be happy and be her own biggest problem. Therefore the creation of Mary Margaret came about when I started making lists of all the things I thought the Evil Queen would want her to be. But then I feel like everything sort of flowed after that and also our scripts are so good that the words really do most of the work for us.
Do you like to know in advance what’s happening to your character?
Absolutely, as I am always dying to know what happens and I do beg for little tidbits here and there and everyone once in a while I’ll get one. Knowing that Little Red Riding Hood was going to be the wolf… I think I flew through the roof when I heard that I was so excited. Knowing that Captain Hook is coming has been really exciting, I mean I didn’t even tell my family, and I’ve been dying to tell everyone.
There have been a few other Snow Whites on screen lately, with Snow White And The Huntsman and Mirror Mirror . What do you think of the other interpretations?
Theres a lot of Snow going on! I saw those movies and I thought they were both incredible interpretations of the story and I was really happy that, I think that when we went into production, I guess it was like a year and a half ago, and we knew that those movies were going and we were worried that there would be some kind of, I don’t know, competition. But you can’t compare them, they’re so different, but I do think it’s interesting that fairytales are in the zeitgeist right now.
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Click next for Prince Charming, aka Josh Dallas…
