Looks like the Wicked Witch and Robin Hood will be sticking around for some time. Rebecca Mader and Sean Maguire have been promoted to series regulars for season five of "Once Upon a Time" Entertainment Weekly reports.
Both actors made their debuts on the fairytale drama in season three with Mader appearing as Regina's (Lana Parrilla) half-sister, Oz's the Wicked Witch of the West. And Maguire replacing Tom Ellis who briefly appeared in the role of Robin Hood in season two.
We know both Robin Hood and Zelena will have a significant role in the coming season as the Wicked Witch returned from her assumed death and ended up pregnant with Hood's baby. We can't wait to see what happens when "OUAT" returns this fall but until then check out these other 5 juicy details about season five.
1. According to TVLine familiar faces from Camelot lore will make an appearance in "Once Upon a Time" season five. ABC is also planning to introduce Merlin, King Arthur and Guinevere. Check out the casting details for each character below:
- For Merlin, Once is seeking a black Brit in his early 30s to early 40s and boasting a natural British accent to play “a man with great wisdom and intelligence beyond his years,” someone who has always put duty in front of his own desires, even at great personal cost.
- Arthur is described as a “good and just ruler” who, beneath the surface, “is a master manipulator who can carry a grudge to the grave, and maybe beyond.” He harbors an “eternal burning love” for Guinevere that can lean toward being a bit… controlling. For this role, Once aims to cast a gent in his mid-30s to early 40s, and again a British accent is mandatory.
- The casting call for Guinevere, meanwhile, seeks a Latina in her mid-20s to mid-30s to play a “headstrong queen” who fell in love with her husband’s most trusted knight, the dashing Lancelot — previously played on Once by "Teen Wolf‘s" Sinqua Walls, but (supposedly) dead in the current timeline. She now must balance her own happiness with the well-being of Camelot.
2. Zap2it spoke to the shows creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz who revealed Emma may be dark for most of the coming season. When asked to describe season five in one word, Kitsis replied "Swan." Though extremely vague, the one word suggest that bringing Emma back from the dark will be the central theme of "OUAT."
3. The writers for "Once Upon a Time" are currently taking a well deserved break, but according to Horowitz the theme for season five has already been talked about.
"We start with a theme we want to explore and go from there," he says. "We've done our mini-camp. We actually have the next month so we like to sit for the next month and ask 'Does it still hold true?'"
4. Don't expect to meet Merlin right away as there is a quest to find powerful sorcerer. The season will detail the characters' quest for Merlin in order to free Emma from the powers of an ancient darkness and to defeat it once and for all before it destroys everything.
5. Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) is still alive but for how long is up for debate. In the season four finale "Operation Mongoose, Part 2" the darkness was pulled from Rumple and he was left in a critical state and put in a kind of stasis with his condition unknown. On the bright side Carlyle is still on the casting list for season five so we know Rumple will be in the series in some sort of capacity.
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