You Tweeted at one point that you choose to wear a ring and that it's an unscripted character choice. I know the showrunners hold their cards close to the chest, so have you created your own personal backstory for Regina?
Lana Parrilla: On some level I have, but the choice in the ring came from my own research. It had more to do with the
emerald, which is linked to
Lucifer. It was just kind of my way of tapping into the dark side for this character, and I wanted to have some link into the fairytale land with Regina, just as a choice. So I ended up finding a gem that came close to looking like an emerald and wore it in Storybrooke. We talk about actors having secrets, so it was my little secret. No one even really knew about it until I got the prop cleared, and I told them why, and they said "Okay, it's fine, it's great." And then people started focusing on it, like
"She's wearing this ring and it's green, it's very similar to the one Snow White ends up wearing, the one that Prince Charming is giving Snow White." And Ginny [Ginnifer Goodwin, who plays Snow White] and I talked about how funny that was, and I said "Well, I've had this since the pilot." and she said "It's so weird they gave me this prop!" So maybe subconsciously the prop master was in tune in on some level.
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