He’s in everyone’s mind and everyone’s imagination we all know this name from our childhood. Everyone knows the name, but that’s pretty much all we know. He said: “This is the chance for me to define or redefine this character for a whole new generation, at the ripe old age of 51.
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They remember their past identities and there are many joyful reunions, but living under the curse has changed them all.Ĭarlyle has also spoken about getting the chance to “redefine” one of the fairytale world’s most famous fictional characters. As a result, the residents are still trapped in our world. It opens with Mr Gold’s potion, intended to restore things that are lost, bringing the magic of the Enchanted Forest into Storybrooke. The spectacular finale saw the breaking of the curse, and now season two deals with the aftermath. In the first series, Regina unleashed the Dark Curse, causing the inhabitants of Fairy Tale Land to become trapped in Storybrooke – a place where time is frozen and where the residents do not remember the past. And I think through the episodes that the guys write, we’ll begin to discover that.” So Gold and Rumplestiltskin, though physically different, in their head there’s an awful lot of similarities there. I think Storybrooke is slightly off balance. I don’t think that would necessarily work. “It wasn’t as if fantasy fairytale jumped into social realism or something like that. What interested me about the change between the fairytale world and the real world was that there wasn’t such a massive jump in actual fact. “In some way, they are pretty much spawn of the same person. He said: “Rumplestiltskin and Mr Gold are obviously intrinsically linked.
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“People come and ask me to do these parts because they think I can do that.”Ĭarlyle, who shot to fame after films like The Full Monty, Priest, Trainspotting and Angela’s Ashes, was drawn by the fact that the storyline in the grand-scale American series merged fantasy with reality. It’s not quite as exciting when you’re pushing the plot through. These are more interesting parts to play, the characters who the plot is kind of bouncing off. “I think most actors would say the same thing. Something you have to try to piece together. He said: “I suppose it’s like a jigsaw puzzle. Rumplestiltskin was no Prince Charming, but Carlyle admits that the dual roles of the fairytale character and his real-life alter-ego Mr Gold presented a double whammy of challenges. In the Enchanted Forest, Carlyle plays the Grimms’ creation Rumplestiltskin and in Storybrooke, Maine, he plays the enigmatic Mr Gold.
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The stories unravel across two parallel worlds – the mythical fairytale setting of the Enchanted Forest and the modern day setting of smalltown USA.Īs the show flits back and forth between the two worlds, viewers are re-familiarised with fabled characters remembered from childhood storybooks. The Glasgow actor returns in fantasy adventure Once Upon a Time on Channel 5 this week as Rumplestiltskin.įrom the creators of Lost, the ambitious series merges the world of fairytales with reality in a fictional American town. It’s as a goon from a Brothers Grimm fairytale. HE'S rumoured to be making a return as Trainspotting nutter Begbie, but Robert Carlyle’s next appearance as a villain isn’t as a glass-chucking hardman.