TV Overmind 2015 Comic-Con Roundtable Interview: Sean Maguire & Rebecca Mader (Once Upon a Time)  Once Upon a Time’s Sean Maguire and Rebecca Mader preview what’s ahead for Robin Hood and Zelena in Season 5. (Apologies for the shaky camera and the bad angles.)

 Short interview where Lana talks a little about Robin and Regina and what might be in store for them in season 5

Lana + lip scar (link to interview)

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FACT: no one fangirls about Regina Mills as much as the actual Regina Mills fangirls about Regina Mills

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Westender Interview: The Curious Christie Laing

On Once Upon A Time:

“Having a dad who’s black and a mom who’s white, I never thought I’d get to do period pieces. I didn’t think I’d ever get to wear a corset,” says Laing, who returns to Once Upon a Time on April 12 in an episode entitled ‘Heart of Gold.’

“Getting to play Maid Marian, and looking the way I do, and getting to wear those costumes and play that time in that magical land, it’s been, hands down, something I never, ever, ever thought I would get to play, and it’s been the coolest.”

On working with Lana:

Laing also derives much pleasure from her scenes with Parrilla, who (according to this biased #EvilRegal columnist) surfs the nuances of her good-girl-gone-evil-gone-good role to maximum impact.

“Lana is definitely one of my favourite people to work with. She’s extremely giving, and almost like an accordion in the way that she works and acts,” says Laing. “I imagine this kind of expansion and compression. I can only imagine how exhausting it is for her.”

On her friend and mentor, Rebecca Mader, who plays Zelena on Once Upon a Time: “I call her my fairy godmother now, but Rebecca Mader, who played the Wicked Witch on Once Upon a Time, she’s been a huge mentor recently. We’re kind of new friends, but it’s a friendship I value a lot. She has a lot of insight. She’s worked really hard and she’s had a lot of ups and downs in the industry, so it’s just nice to talk to someone else and realize, okay, this is quite a journey.”

Sean Maguire (via nephelite)

Sean Maguire killing me softly (x)

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Good Morning America: 2015-02-27

Live With Kelly and Michael: 2015-02-27

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Once Upon a Time: Ginnifer Goodwin Talks Dark Snow vs. Evil Queen, Teases Cruella De Vil's 'Perfect' Introduction

TVLINE | But based on the promo, it looks like the bigger tussle is between Mary Margaret and Regina. Oh, yes. It’s really wonderful, because Regina comes back [to the sheriff station] as her full Evil Queen self. But instead of it being that they fall into their old dynamic, it’s more that the Evil Queen battles Dark Snow, from those episodes where Snow White was under dark enchantment. And those two energies together is kind of hilarious. I mean, I kept saying, “I could film this episode every day forever,” because also the dialogue was so meaty. There was just so much to play, because these characters have so much history, and yet so much has changed between them. For her to come back in her Evil Queen regalia is hilarious, because she’s so not that person anymore. And there’s something about being Dark Snow in Storybrooke that we also found very funny, because it’s so not the woman that she has become.

TVLINE | Is it explained why Regina is brandishing a sword instead of just good ol’ fireballs? Well, Mary Margaret does call her on her B.S. and say, basically, “Of course you’re going to use magic, because you’re afraid to get your hands dirty.” She ribs Regina enough to put down her fireballs and go at it, man-to-man.

TVLINE | Did you give Lana any pointers on swordplay? I cannot even express the high regard in which we hold our stunt doubles, who do all of the heavy lifting. But I didn’t even think about the fact that Lana has not had experience sword-fighting on our show, so she hasn’t gone through the sword training that the rest of went through the first season. But she very easily picks things up – I mean, Lana’s a pro at everything — so it ended up being seamless. But we did have our stunt doubles in there, a lot, because these women really take out all their frustrations on each other. They beat the s–t out of each other! I think it’s going to be one of my favorite episodes ever. I mean, I could not have had more fun.

TVLINE | I recently wrote about my appreciation for the “quieter” moments on Once Upon a Time, like when Regina and Mary Margaret had that talk while tracking Emma. And you recently said on set that you relish those moments as well. They’re my favorite. And I have always written the [series creators] after every episode that’s like that. We had several episodes [this season] in which those heart-to-hearts were cut — and they shouldhave been, because while they were really beautiful scenes, I would see that they were really not right for the momentum of the episode. But they found a wonderful way to mash together all of those conversations that we had missed, in that walking scene. I cherish these scenes, because as an actor of course it is magical to swordfight and horseback ride and fight “curse clouds,” but you really feel like you get in touch with a different creative side of yourself when you have these heart-to-heart scenes, especially when the history between these characters is so complicated.

TVLINE | That said, are you aware that Mary Margaret took some knocks, for basically “endorsing” adultery? I very wisely, I believe, don’t read my own press, so no, I did not know that. But that was something we actually talked about [while filming] because it was a complicated line for me to say. My character actually was married to David, back when we were cursed the first time, and David wasn’t actually married to anyone else, so the only cheating that actually,technically occurred was between David and his sick wife [Kathryn]. We must have talked about it for 20 minutes, my making that comment to Regina — “Look, I’ve slept with a married man too” — and we decided that it had to be just a way of my trying to bring her out of her shell, to make her feel safe. It was not to be taken it as literally as it sounded.     I’m not surprised that we got some s–t for it because good, we should, because these characters are flawed, and they’re real, and they’re, I think, relatable and fleshed out. If we were just the live-action incarnation of the Disney animated features, I wouldn’t watch us. I’d find that terribly boring. Instead, we have this really gray world in which we live.

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