Once Upon a Time‘s Lana Parrilla reveals that in season 4, we’ll see Regina’s alter-ego the Evil Queen in Storybrooke – but why?
In Once Upon a Time season 4, Regina has tried very hard to do the right thing. When Robin Hood (Sean Maguire)’s wife was frozen by the ice queen, Regina urged Robin to rediscover his love for her – but Robin is more interested in making out with Regina than saving the mother of his child, so there you go.
Poor Regina. She’s really trying. In a new interview with TV Guide, watch as Lana Parrilla takes us through the character’s motivations and obstacles:
In the interview, Parrilla says that right now, Regina is “heartbroken.” She’s dealing with losing Robin Hood, “and she’s not handling that so well.”
“If you break up with someone do you want to see them every day?” she asks. “Not necessarily, especially if you’re still in love with them. So it’s kind of a push and pull dynamic – she wants to be his girl, and yet he’s such an honourable man, and she respects that, so she wants to keep his distance.”
But True Love gone bad is not Regina’s only problem.
“Old habits die hard. She always has that evil impulse, she’s very temperamental and she wants to act out,” Parrilla says. “But she also knows that in doing so she can lose Henry. It just doesn’t look like the best next step for her.”
But while she’s, “really trying to be good,” Parrilla acknowledges that Regina has, “lost a lot of faith, and she is discovering that villains don’t get happy endings. So it’s kind of like, all hope is lost. What’s the point? Even when I try to do good, the outcome isn’t to my liking. She just feels like no matter what she does, she loses.”
Finally, Parrila reveals the reason she’s sitting in Storybrooke, dressed up in one of the Evil Queen’s most spectacular gowns.
In a future episode, “smething happens where she’s kind of out of control. This kind of just happens to her, that’s why I’m dressed this way. And why she chooses to go back to this evil queen. It’s a lot of fun.”
Are you looking forward to Regina’s storyline picking up? She’s been relegated to the background for long enough!
Source: TV Guide
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