Lana Parrilla explains her personal acting choice to interpret young Snow White's actions as unintentionally selfish, which helped her justify the Queen's extreme hatred.

>"It was tough to wrap my head around. Oh my god, that's why the Evil Queen wants to kill Snow White? because she was really trying to help her!
In order to make sense of this revenge, I felt like this little girl is very selfish. so you told my mother this but then now you're so happy that you get to have me all to yourself.
That's really feeding the Queen... this is my choice, not something the creators have said to me; it made sense, it was discovered in the moment with this young actress--the way that she was articulating this joy and happiness that she gets to have me as her mother in her life--that's what created this hatred for her."

This is a fascinating look into how actors build backstories for their characters there's so much more that goes into a performance than what we see on screen. You essentially have to construct an entire life for someone who never existed, filling in all the gaps the writers leave behind.

Lana Parrilla talks about struggling to wrap her head around Regina's hatred toward Snow, when Snow was only trying to help. The perspective she landed on makes complete sense to me. Snow gets to have Regina. She wanted her as a mother figure, and she's ecstatic about it. But for Regina, this is the beginning of a trapped existence. She never wanted to be Leopold's wife or Snow's stepmother... and yet this little girl opened her mouth, and suddenly Regina belongs to them. Her whole future was decided by a child's inability to keep a secret.

What I also think gets overlooked is that Regina is grieving, deeply and completely alone. She lost her true love. "In the fairytale land, you "only get one love"... and she has no space to actually process that. She has to bury it, perform the role she never asked for, and keep moving. Even in the real world, unprocessed grief causes serious damage to a person. Now imagine carrying that in isolation, with no outlet and no one safe to turn to.

None of this is rational, and I'm not saying it should be... but that's kind of the point. Dark, irrational thoughts are often what grief looks like when it has nowhere to go.

This isn't strictly canon, but how it changed my perspective: Snow wasn't being malicious. She was just a child, and children are inherently self-centered. Not out of cruelty, but because they're simply not wired yet to fully grasp the weight of their actions. The implications of what she'd set in motion never occurred to her, because she was a kid who was happy and wanted to share that happiness. Regina just had to live with the consequences of it forever.

Context of the Quote

>The "Selfish" Interpretation:

>"Parrilla struggled to understand why Regina would want to kill a child who was "really trying to help." She decided to view Snow's actions through a lens of childhood selfishness—that Snow wanted Regina all to herself as a mother figure and thus eliminated the "competition" (Daniel)."

>Working with Bailee Madison:

>"Parrilla noted that this perspective was "discovered in the moment" while working with Madison. She felt that the young actress articulated a certain "joy and happiness" at the prospect of having Regina in her life, which Regina (in her grief) twisted into a reason for deep resentment."

>Why This Quote Matters:

>"This insight became a cornerstone of Parrilla's performance. It allowed her to play Regina not just as a fairy-tale villain, but as a woman deeply wounded by what she perceived as a betrayal of her happiness . By viewing Snow's innocence as a form of "selfishness," Parrilla was able to "wrap her head around" the decade-long quest for revenge that drives the series."

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"I think about this episode a lot, and no one seems to ever mention it.

Regina has just betrayed the genie, and she's tearful about it. He loved her. He genuinely wanted to be with her, and she knew that. But just like the moment she ran away from Robin at the tavern, she closes herself off. Convinces herself that her end game (destroying Snow) is more important.

Why?

Why would Regina reject love at this point and become queen when she's always hated the notion?

Because anything else is unknown. Love is weakness, and as long as she isn't weak, she isn't vulnerable."

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I love when she tells the story of meeting Jarad.

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"Henry Mills believes in right and wrong. He believes in sacrifice. In doing the right thing no matter what the cost. He believes in helping people who need help. He is kind. He is understanding. He is thoughtful. He believes that hurting other people is wrong. He believes that standing by and letting other people be hurt is wrong.

Henry Mills believes in heroes and that it is right to aspire to be a hero.

And he was taught all of these things, not by a book, or by some claim of special family genetics.

He was taught these things by his mother. A woman who had every reason not to teach those values to her son and still did.

If you like and admire the person Henry Mills is, credit where credit is due."

"I would say the first time we meet the Evil Queen at the wedding," Parrilla says. "That was my first day as her. It was my first day in full costume, hair, and makeup. I remember being very nervous and had my music playing on my iPod and I was really focused. I just wanted to do great and I wanted to do great for Regina. I wanted her to be the character that they've created and so much more. I remember when those doors flung open, even though they weren't really there, just looking up and making that entrance was something that was very powerful for me as this character. I learned that that's what she does; she knows how to make an entrance. That's how she intimidates people. It was the fun; the joy in it and also the real truth of this pain and anger and resentment that she's been carrying all these years.

"That was very informative for me moving forward with Regina and playing the Evil Queen, how she holds on to the past and she lets the past dictate her future and the choices that she makes, but she was in a very particular place in that time in her life and she didn't have love. She wasn't happy. Even though her father had been giving her that message and trying to show her a better way, she didn't respect him. She never trusted him and she was blinded by her hatred and resentment for Snow. It's only when we jump forward into Storybrooke when she adopts Henry, she learns from him that she can be happy. He brings that happiness into her life, but ultimately it's the love that does."

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