Question: Will we get to see Once Upon a Time‘s original Hook again before the end of the series (with or without Emma)? –Katie
Ausiello: As you may have surmised since emailing this in — given this slew of confirmed returns — Colin O’Donoghue will be playing two roles as the series winds down, the actor shared during our visit to the set. In fact, O’Donoghue said that the before our arrival marked “my last day dressed as a pirate,” for a scene with returning leading lady Jennifer Morrison. “It’s a lovely little moment,” he smiled. “Anyone who’s a fan of Hook and Emma being together will get a kick out of it.”
(disclaimer: I have not watched s7 and know nothing about it apart from what’s on my dash and I have no problem if you do, go forth and be happy! this was written in like 10 minutes and doubtless will be jossed anyway buuuut. Reasons.)
Emma’s smile up at him is slightly tremulous, as if she thinks he might flinch, or run, or jerk back. As she pauses, gathering herself. I have something to tell you, and What is it, love? and all the other words that hang still-just-spoken between them, as if perhaps he’s guessed already, and yet, hearing it is something else.
They’re standing here in the woods, and Henry is a man, a man, gods, he’s grown up, when it feels like just bloody yesterday that Killian was putting him through his paces on the deck of the Roger, and Emma was confiding her fears about him leaving home, worried that she might never get a second chance. He could hear well enough what she meant by that, and, well. They haven’t been trying, but they haven’t not been trying, both of them too innately superstitious, perhaps, to speak it aloud and curse its chances.
(Curses, after all, dog too closely at their footsteps.)
(Why give this one a better chance?)
And yet, it’s just that, it’s a chance, it’s more than that. This small and perfect glimpse of a future he can still have, that he wants so badly, as Emma Swan Jones’ smile trembles again and she grasps her husband’s hand and brings it to her stomach, never turning from his gaze, as Henry has considerately retreated to give them a moment. (Unorthodox modifications to his family tree are hardly unknown; getting a much-younger half sibling will be about the most ordinary addition it’s had in some time.)
Emma’s voice is a whisper as their foreheads touch.
“You’re going to be a father, Killian.”
(And he is, he already has been, to Bae and to Henry and even young Neal on occasion, he has loved and loved, he has given so much – and yet he’s never quite taken that word, never quite made it his own. It can’t be real, not like this, not with her, her hair like sunshine on her shoulders and the ghost of a gasp clutched in his chest, and love like he cannot fathom in his heart. And yet it is, it is warm and real and bright, the lost boy and girl brought full circle, and all the world begun anew.)
You (Colin) look amazing! 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.
“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.”
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