Interview With Lana Parrilla On Once Upon A Time

WGTC: You mentioned Sebastian Stan so I take it we get to see more of him this season then? He was one of my favorites last year.

Lana Parrilla: You will, you’ll see the Mad Hatter. There’s so many storylines that have yet to…there are a lot of open ends. You know, one is Pinocchio’s story, the way you saw him in the season finale he’s now a wooden doll, so that story needs to be [addressed]. And we’re gonna see more of the Mad Hatter. But I think we don’t want to give everything away too soon, it’ll happen over a period of time.

WGTC: That’s true. What can you tell us about the other new characters? I know there’s Sleeping Beauty and Lancelot? And the giant I believe played by Jorge Garcia?

Lana Parrilla: Yeah. Well, Jorge’s story is connected to Emma Swan and that’ll be interesting. The Aurora/Mulan story is mostly connected to Snow White. I can’t really tell you much because something happens and it’s making every one of these interviews difficult because I can’t really say how we meet them and…

WGTC: But you know, I love the tease [Laughs] I’d rather be surprised about it.

Lana Parrilla: Okay good, you will be surprised I swear.

WGTC: I can’t wait. How was Comic-Con this year, did you get to see any Evil Queen cosplayers?

Lana Parrilla: I did! I saw a couple of evil queen costumes as well as some Snow White costumes. It was awesome!

WGTC: Any crazy fan encounters?

Lana Parrilla: No but it was my birthday this year at Comic-Con. They sang me Happy Birthday which I thought was really cool. I never had so many people sing Happy Birthday to me in my life [laughs] That was special.

WGTC: I can only imagine. What do you geek about at Comic-Con? What is your favorite TV to watch or you know, things that you’re interested in?

Lana Parrilla: Lost was one of my huge favorites. I know Lost was always big at Comic-Con. But this year, the shows that I watch are mostly well Once Upon A Time, Revenge, American Horror Story, Game of Thrones…everyone keeps talking about Downton Abbey and I need to check that out. There’s a lot of shows that I have not seen. And part of that is just, you know, when you’re working so much, it’s hard to [watch them].

WGTC: Yeah, I understand. I know you have a Twitter but, are you aware of your Tumblr fan following?

Lana Parrilla: No. I mean I know that there’s a Tumblr but–

WGTC: There’s a lot of blogs dedicated to you and your character, lots of stuff there. [Laughs]

Lana Parrilla: Oh wow! I have to check that out. I’ve seen some stuff here and there but I didn’t realize that–I don’t really know how Tumblr works. I know that’s kind of naïve of me to say but—

WGTC: I mean, I’m fairly new to it, but before the interview, I asked Tumblr what they would like me to ask you, and it wasn’t even ten minutes [before] I got a whole bunch of questions. So that’s how many fans you have on there.

Lana Parrilla: Oh wow, what were some of the questions?

WGTC: Lots of people wanted to know if you knew about Swan Queen? Are you aware of that?

Lana Parrilla: Yeah. I’ve been asked that question quite a bit.

WGTC: Really? I hadn’t known about it until [recently] but I thought it was really interesting.

Lana Parrilla: Yeah! I think it’s a fantasy that some of my fans have of Emma and Regina having a deeper connection on a romantic level.

WGTC: Maybe it’s cause I’m a guy but I just thought that was weird [as to how it originated] but interesting at the same time. I never saw the [romantic] chemistry there.

Lana Parrilla: Yeah, I’m not quite sure what direction the producers are heading in when it comes to the Emma and Regina relationship—

WGTC: Yeah I highly doubt it’s going to go that way but I think it’s a fun fantasy.

Lana Parrilla: Yeah I think it’s a fantasy of some of the fans of the show and you know, Regina and Emma um, but I’m not quite sure where the producers are headed. I think that THAT relationship on a romantic level is probably NOT going to happen?

WGTC: Well they still have their fan fiction I think. I think they’ll be happy as long as you share more scenes together.

Lana Parrilla: Yeah. [Laughs] It’s so true. [I’ve] got so many interesting things from some comments and pictures of me and [Emma].

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regalz

no straight man has any right determining that Swan Queen is pure fiction. disrespectful and homophobic article.
- Juan
  
  Extreme much? I don’t even know how you got that from this article.
Shawna

This is the first interview I’ve read from someone on Once Upon A Time, and it sounds like season two is going to be great. I was talking to a coworker at DISH, and we’re both pretty excited for the premiere. I’ll be out of town tonight, but my Hopper DVR is recording the show so I can watch it later. The Hopper has Primetime Anytime, which automatically records all the prime time shows on the four major networks, including Once Upon A Time. I don’t have to worry about setting a timer; all I have to do is not read any of the reviews until after I’ve seen the episode. I don’t want anyone to spoil whatever Parrilla was talking about when she said something big was going to happen.
Sazag

I find the tone of the reporter a little off. If this is a transcription of the interview, then the interviewer interrupted Lana on 3 separate occasions and that seems quite unprofessional as well as being very disrespectful to a busy actress who has been generous enough to give time for the interview.I don’t know if there was an issue with time or whatnot but I found that difficult and set the tenor of this interview as quite dismissive making his comments on Swan Queen seem worse than they might have been otherwise.
- http://twitter.com/JuanSam26 Juan
  
  It was not my intention to make the Swan Queen issue any worse than it might’ve been and sorry if it came off that way, if anything Lana was really cool to answer that so respectfully. As for the interruptions, I didn’t interrupt her, it was more like she’d stop and let me say the rest or say more. I guess I should’ve made it more clear in the way I wrote it up, my bad. So instead of writing ‘relationship—’ it was more like ‘relationship……’ My apologies. Also, Lana was really nice enough to spend way more time talking to me than was promised.