6. And sometimes it’s the actors that influence the writers.
"With Gold, in the beginning, I always kind of
played that he knew something, that he knew
more than people thought," said Carlyle, who
noted that he had to do a lot of guessing before
Rumple's backstory was fully revealed. "Whether
that was true or not, I didn't know, but I think in
a sense you almost force the writers' hands, and
then they give you that."
