“Adam and I both thought that Hook needed to have a tux that reflects his personality, so you can’t go from leather to just a basic tux,” he revealed. “We felt like he had to have a little edge to it so the velvet felt like the Hook-version of fancy.”
We know that many Once Upon a Time fans are currently counting down the seconds until Hook and Emma tie the knot in the upcoming musical extravaganza. (FYI, it’s only 1,209,600 seconds away.) So we’ve got something that is going to curb your Captain Swan cravings!
ET has your first look photo of Hook looking oh-so dashing in his wedding tux, plus exclusive details from set about how this velvet suit was selected, and why fans are going to be “very happy” with Emma and Killian’s journey down the aisle.
“I think I can probably credit [Once Upon a Time showrunner] Eddy [Kitsis] for this look,” star Colin O’Donoghue dished of his suit to ET during a joint interview with Jennifer Morrison on Once’s Vancouver set last month. “We were going to go in a different direction and Eddy was like, ‘It has to be black velvet!’ So that’s it – it’s black velvet.”
“It’s really soft though,” the 36-year-old actor added with a laugh.
Kitsis further explained to ET that he and co-executive producer Adam Horowitz had a very specific vision in mind when it came to Hook’s look.
“Adam and I both thought that Hook needed to have a tux that reflects his personality, so you can’t go from leather to just a basic tux,” he revealed. “We felt like he had to have a little edge to it so the velvet felt like the Hook-version of fancy.”
When asked if he feels “suave” in his wedding attire, O’Donoghue was bashful with his response. “I guess so,” he chuckled. “I hope it looks OK.”
“You look amazing!” co-star Jennifer Morrison chimed in while looking dazzling herself in her intricately laced wedding gown. “He’s been getting a little jealous about all of the attention the dress has been getting, so I’m trying to butter him up a little bit about his velvet jacket.”
While Morrison hopes that “brains explode” when Captain Swan fans finally witness Emma and Killian’s vows to one another, O’Donoghue was a bit more sentimental with his predictions.
“I think that they’ll be very happy,” he said. “Because even to get to this point in this season, they’ve had such ups and downs. So to get to this place, within the realm of what’s about to happen to them and all that kind of stuff, is pretty impressive.”
O’Donoghue continued, “They’ve just decided that, ‘You know what? We love each other, we want to be together and now is the time to do it.’”
Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Sunday’s episode of Once Upon a Time. Read at your own risk!
Wedding bells will soon be ringing — and the residents of Storybrooke will also be singing — during Once Upon a Time‘s highly anticipated musical episode.
At the close of Sunday’s episode, Emma (Jennifer Morrison) was able to rescue Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) from Neverland, so he promptly and properly proposed. EW can, therefore, reveal that Emma and Hook are really getting married, which is the basis of the May 7 musical hour!
“When we started talking about the musical, we wanted it to be a special episode,” executive producer Edward Kitsis says. “We thought Emma’s wedding felt like the natural milestone for us.”
Adds executive producer Adam Horowitz: “It felt like the right place. Hopefully, when you see how the device works within the episode and how it relates to Emma and her character journey, it all seems to make sense that it would lead up to this. It worked on both a plot and character level, and it allowed us the fun of actually doing a musical episode.”
It can finally be double-secret officially announced: Once Upon a Time‘s Emma Swan and Captain “Killian Jones” Hook are heading for a wedding.
The confirmation comes on the heels of this Sunday’s episode, in which some of Peter Pan’s magic from Neverland combined with powerful Pixie flower petals allowed Hook (played by Colin O’Donoghue) to return to Storybrooke, where he and Emma (Jennifer Morrison) happily reunited and reaffirmed their plan to walk down the aisle. (Elsewhere, Snow and Charming were rescued from the sleeping curse when Regina got the idea to “dilute” its power by having family and friends also partake in the spell.)
TVLine was on set for the filming of the wedding episode, on March 7 at the show’s soundstage in Vancouver. Many more, exclusive details will be served up as the Big Day draws near, but for right now, here are five things to know:
♥ Airing Sunday, May 7 at 8/7c, the wedding episode is titled “The Song in Your Heart” — because it is also the series’ musical episode (which TVLine was the first to tell you about back in January).
♥ The musical episode features seven original songs penned by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, with arrangements provided by Once‘s long-time composer Mark Isham. In addition to Morrison and O’Donoghue, Lana Parrilla, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas and Rebecca Mader are among the cast members you will hear sing.
♥ The episode has been in the works since last summer, when Once co-creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis met with Zachary and Weiner. “We’ve been planning it for a long time,” says Kitsis.
♥ Yes, the wedding is poised to mark Emma and Hook’s affirmation of love, but even more importantly, it signals how far the series’ central protaganist has come in six seasons, having first arrived on the scene with her emotional walls raised high and firm. “For us,” says Kitsis, “the most important thing is that it was intimate and that you really understood that this was a real milestone in Emma’s growth.” One other goal? “Hopefully to make some people cry.”
♥ Yet despite such best intentions, the ceremony miiiiight not go off without a hitch. As Horowitz reminds, “Weddings on the TV series Once Upon a Time traditionally are fraught with unexpected circumstances. And this is no different.”
“It’s a musical episode where Hook and Emma…” Morrison began thoughtfully.
“Get married!” O’Donoghue chimed in with a smirk. “Teased! Boom!”
We at ET are thrilled to confirm that Once Upon a Time’s highly anticipated musical extravaganza
– which will air Sunday, May 7 – will also be the episode in which
Emma Swan and Killian Jones get married.
(We’re just going to pause
here for a second to let that glorious news sink in and for the
subsequent screams of excitement die down. All good? Great! Now take
another deep breath and keep reading…)
ET had the pleasure of visiting Once Upon a Time’s
set in Vancouver, Canada, last month during filming of the musical
matrimony, and we asked the star-studded cast what their initial
reaction was after discovering that Emma and Hook would be tying the
knot in season six’s penultimate episode.
“I thought it was perfect,” Jennifer Morrison gushed to ET during a joint interview with co-star Colin O’Donoghue.
“We just felt, like, what better way to make it feel extra special than
to have [the wedding] also be the musical episode?”
From recording the original
songs, to learning the choreography and finding the inspiration for her
wedding gown, (more on that later!) Morrison revealed that working on
the musical episode has been a career highlight.
“It’s been so fun!” the
38-year-old actress exclaimed. “I mean, I feel like I just keep
repeating myself: It’s just so fun! it’s just so fun!”
“You’re going to have a
whole article of Jennifer saying, ‘It’s just so fun!’ over and over
again,” O’Donoghue said with a laugh.
When asked how they would
tease the episode for the fans, the actors were quick to cut to the
chase.
“It’s a musical episode
where Hook and Emma…” Morrison began thoughtfully.
“Get married!” O’Donoghue
chimed in with a smirk. “Teased! Boom!”
“Oh wait, you mean without a
spoiler? Umm, but it’s a spoiler, on top of a spoiler, wrapped in a
spoiler!” Morrison dished. “Hook and Emma find themselves on a brand new
adventure that changes the rest of their lives. Wait, that’s not good.
Hmm, OK. Hook and Emma follow through on a critical decision…”
“With music, and dance, and
some mighty fine romance!“ O’Donoghue added.
Although we’re not going to
reveal any specific episode details at this time, we can tell you that
Morrison and O’Donoghue are well aware that Captain Swan fans are going
to completely lose it when they see Emma and Killian’s wedding.
“I hope their brains
explode!” Morrison giggled playfully. “I mean, I hope they enjoy it as
much as we have. It’s been so fun. I just said it again!”
Listen up, Oncers! This
article only contains a teeny, tiny bit of all the interviews that ET
gathered while on set of Once Upon a Time’s musical wedding extravaganza, so make sure you keep it locked to ETonline and follow @LeanneAguilera on Twitter for even more magical scoop in the weeks to come!
Once Upon a Time airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
Can Hook and Emma’s relationship survive Once Upon a Time‘s latest twist?
Though Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) had initially mulled running away after Emma (Jennifer Morrison) uncovered he was responsible for the death of David’s (Josh Dallas) father, a run-in with Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) made him change his mind. Unfortunately, Gideon (Giles Matthey) trapped Hook on Captain Nemo’s (Faran Tahir) departing ship, therefore making Emma believe Hook has abandoned her.
Even so, O’Donoghue is optimistic that the duo can weather this new challenge. “He realizes he can’t run away anymore,” O’Donoghue tells EW. “He’s not the same Hook. He has to confront the issues and deal with them head-on and whatever happens happens, which is part of who he is as a changed man. Unfortunately, Gideon sends them away, and now it’s a case of he’s banished and he’s got no way of getting back to Emma, so she’s got no idea that he actually was going to come back and try and deal with it.”
Therefore, Hook will attempt to work his way back to Emma, but it won’t be easy. “He’s beyond desperate,” O’Donoghue says. “We saw in the last season that it is true love. He’s so desperate to get back to the woman that he loves. He’s already lost somebody that he loved years and years ago and this is an even stronger love, if that can be possible.”
So, where is Hook heading? “He’s going to find himself on a circuitous journey to try to get back to Emma,” executive producer Adam Horowitz says. “It might take a pirate to a land that is very unfamiliar to him, which is a desert, perhaps a desert like Agrabah.”
Hence, while stuck on the Nautilus, Hook will come into contact with a number of familiar faces, chief among them Aladdin (Deniz Akdeniz) and Jasmine (Karen David), who are just as desperate to save their land from Jafar (Oded Fehr). “We’ll also see him interact with Nemo, we’ll see him interact with Liam, his half-brother, which is great because you get to see them deal with their relationship a little bit more than we had seen before,” O’Donoghue adds. “We come across Black Beard and Ariel, which is always fun. The Black Beard stuff is really good fun because these are two pirates trying to outdo each other.”
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