A fairy-tale time for 'Once' star Lana Parrilla
22.05.12
NEW YORK — Lana Parrilla, whose dual roles on the fantasy drama “Once Upon a Time” include the fearsome Evil Queen, wasn’t satisfied just knowing her character was evil.
“You can also see she’s a tortured soul,” says Parrilla, “and I made a very conscious choice to reveal the pain underneath.”
While she prepped for her audition, she asked herself: What caused that pain?
“So I did a meditation, and I saw a lot of her past and tapped into it,” discovering in the process that “a major betrayal and the loss of someone she deeply loves are what caused the darkness to overtake her, and what caused her need to punish everyone in her life. She doesn’t want anyone to be happy, because HER happiness was taken from her.”
Parrilla shared her epiphany with the show’s co-creators, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, “and they had their own vision which was totally in line with mine. Maybe I tapped into THEIR psyches!”
The ABC freshman hit, which airs Sunday at 7 p.m. CST, has a mind-bending premise (“every time I try to pitch this show,” Parrilla laughs, “it sounds like I’ve just smoked something really strong”).
Source: LubbockOnline.com