The news of new characters has been shared by actor Raphael Sbarge, who plays Jiminy Cricket in the Enchanted Forest and therapist Archie in Storybrooke. He told The Clicker, “I feel very strongly (creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz) are so good at storytelling that they have a bigger plan in store for us. We’ll all be very pleased, surprised and delighted by what occurs.”
“They came at me at the beginning of the season and they said a couple of things. They said, ‘Look, we are going to bring in a whole bunch of new characters.’ They said, ‘Don’t worry.’ There are episodes where some of our main characters – like Lana [Parrilla aka Regina and the Evil Queen] – have been in [the show] very little or at all.”
Regarding the addition of new faces, Sbarge divulged, “It creates the microcosm because when we do all come back – and I promise, we do – it sort of creates that much more excitement, thrill and familiarity.”
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