Once Upon A Time Season 2 begins later this year, but before that, the cast and producers made a special appearance in San Diego at this year’s Comic-Con International. We interviewed several of them — you can find those interviews here — and today we share what Jennifer Morrison, better known as our hero, Emma Swan, has to say.
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“I think she’s going to freak out!” Morrison exclaims when asks how Emma is going to react to the knowledge that “Mary-Margaret” and “David” are indeed Snow White and Prince Charming, and they are indeed her parents. “I think she’s going to be really overwhelmed and freak out. No matter what, she’s a survivor, and that’s always been her existence, is to find a way to survive the most intense of circumstances, so there will definitely be that part of her, but I just think it’s all crazy. It’s crazy! She’s going to deal with everything suddenly being crazy, and I think she will deal with that in a very real way.”
The family dynamic between Emma and her parents isn’t the only one that will be affected when the show comes back — things are also going to be different between Emma and Henry. “I think it’s going to be drastically affected,” she says. “There’s going to be some damage to be undone there, as well, just as much as Emma’s going to have a hard time dealing with the fact that her parents gave her up and trying to understand why, she’s going to have to answer to Henry. She sort of placated him and not believed him all the way through and thought ‘oh, I’m just using this as a way to connect to you and try to be close to you,’ and he’s an incredibly advanced child, in the sense that I think he will have perspective on it in some way, where he’ll realize that it does seem outrageous. There’s a certain amount of grace and forgiveness that he’ll have there, but I do think there’s going to be some damage to be undone, for sure.”
Part of the fun for Morrison is not knowing what is coming next for her character. “The writing is so extraordinary that you just never can guess what’s coming next,” she says. “We never read a script and think ‘well, this will probably happen this week, and that’ll probably happen next week.’ That never happens. Every time we read a script, we have no idea what’s going to happen, and that’s an exciting place to be as an actor, because you always have a new challenge facing you, with very little time to work it out. You get to live at the edge of your seat, and the adrenaline of the show, and the momentum that it has, and where the writing is taking you, you’re sort of just getting on that wave and riding it.” As Emma is, in many ways, the bridge between the worlds, Morrison often has a big role in every episode, though that sometimes varies. “It just depends on the episode,” she says.
“There are some episodes that are incredibly time-demanding, and then there are episodes when I work 2 days, and then I get a little break. It really just comes down to a by-episode situation. I know that in the first episode back, I am in almost every scene, and then the second episode, I’m in four scenes. There are times where, depending on what the storyline is… there’s always going to be an element of Emma that’s a through-line, but sometimes it’ll be a lot, and sometimes be a little,” she continues.
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