It’s a very interesting thing, the way that she keeps striking this chord. Mitchell: Not the best way to go about it. IGN: It's perhaps not the best way to go about it. The idea that you can make people love you by killing everybody else that they love seems a bit unwise.

Her motivations are that she wants love, and that's great. Mitchell: I love that she’s clever that way.

IGN: Yes, it seems like she has every step planned and thought out. There was no need to be, that type of crazy – I mean, she is crazy - but there was no need to have her throw it all around. And that’s why it all worked out in a calm fashion, because she deeply feels she’ll get it. She’s on the path to get what it is that she needs. But I think like all villains, like all people in life, she thinks she deeply deserves what she’s asking for. I mean, that had to be what made her mad. And then she was self-aware in an urn for 25-30 years, which of course had to drive her mad.

There was no way for her to learn the society rules. It was an accident, but as a deeply empathic child, she kills someone, so she locked herself away. I had to give a lot of thought to what she had been through. What are the challenges of selling her evil side with this approach? Elizabeth Mitchell: The original challenge was of course, you worry that people think you aren’t doing anything. IGN: One thing that's interesting about the Snow Queen is that she's quietly crazy. IGN spoke with Mitchell about the character's demented side, possible redemption, and the full extent of the Snow Queen's plans.Įlizabeth Mitchell as Ingrid/The Snow Queen in Once Upon a Time.

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