‘Once Upon A Time’ Star Lana Parrilla Talks Season 7 Plus Exiting Castmates

While big shake-ups in the cast have a lot of people anxious about the next season, at least one returning Once Upon a Time cast member is eager to see what happens in the “next chapter.”

Lana Parrilla, who plays Regina Mills/the Evil Queen, recently spoke with reporters about the show’s new direction and what she’s expecting.

Speaking of the departing cast, she said, “Once Upon a Time is all of us [and] I’m really going to miss working alongside all those people.”

Regarding the statement that Channing Dungey, the head ABC Entertainment made about some characters returning “but with new identities in a new city, facing a new curse,” Parrilla said, “I do know that we’re playing sort of different characters,” and then went on to admit that “it’s all unknown” even to her right now.

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Ultimately, though, she said that she’s “excited to see what the next chapter is for Regina.”

Lastly, Parrilla talked about how fun it would be to incorporate some other Disney-owned properties into the show. Specifically, Star Wars.

She said, “I think that we should somehow incorporate Star Wars. I think that Adam and Eddy [the show’s creators] are huge Star Wars fans, and if there were a way to bring Darth Vader in, that would be cool.”

Her idea for how they could do it isn’t half-bad either. Parrilla thinks that maybe a romantic link could unite the iconic evil forces, suggesting, “I would say that he would probably be a better love interest for the Evil Queen, but now she’s taken. But it would just be fun, I think, to just battle him.”

It turns out that she may have taken a cue from fans on this idea, as she admitted, “I’ve seen crazy fan art with the Evil Queen versus Darth Vader and they’re both holding lightsabers. I would just love that.”

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While a team-up between Darth Vader and The Evil Queen is highly improbable, Parrilla’s not wrong that it would be fun to see.

[H/T: Screen Rant]