Actor Richard Schiff is getting ready for a guest turn on ABC’s Once Upon A Time and is dropping a few hints about his role as King Leopold, the father of Snow White.
He has now told Entertainment Weekly that his “intricate” storyline will involve flashbacks to his life with Snow White and the Queen.
“He certainly seems to be a happy guy at first glances,” Schiff said. “They wrote him as a happy-go-lucky guy. [He doesn't] desire anything.
“But at one point he says, ‘I have a prosperous kingdom, a beautiful daughter, and a lovely Queen’, and I decided to make the Queen line not as excited as the other two items on that list. In other words, he’s unhappy and I don’t think people are ignorant [to that]… So there’s a little bit of darkness underneath him.”
Schiff also revealed that he has no idea whether he will return to the show in future episodes.
“The actors all seem to think I’m coming back, but that’s a discussion I’ve not had with anyone else,” he said. “But they all say, ‘You have to come back because you explain this and that’ and ‘You’re the reason that…’ But really, they’re all guessing along with [viewers].”
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