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🎥 Jen discussing the rebirth of @apartment3creads during her Q&A with ‘In Creative Company’ “In Conversation: Jennifer Morrison” published August 18, 2022

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🔙 Jen appearing on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ on October 24, 2012

🎥 New video of Jen discussing the impact that music had on her life, growing up in a family full of music and involved with Bands Of America.

 Jossyl Interviews Jennifer Morrison

Difference acting vs directing

Yeah, they’re both fulfilling, but they’re fulfilling in different ways. There is something about surrendering yourself as an actor to a project and knowing you’re serving a certain purpose. And you will put in the work and the hours and the research and you bring that and it’s an offering you sort of offer over what you’ve given and someone else decides what part of that is important and what part of that really makes sense in the storytelling. And there’s something really satisfying about that and then there’s a different satisfaction when you’re the person deciding what’s important and what part of the story to tell and fitting all those pieces together.  And there’s something else about being in control of the environment as a director you know I really believe that we’re all very lucky to get to do what we do we have the best jobs on the planet. We get to be creative, we get to make things and a lot of times it’s not the healthiest environments sometimes people get caught up in ego and all this craziness and so I really strive to create environments for people to work in where they want to go to work every day. And they want to give their best and they feel creatively supportive so part of the joy I get from directing is being able to really strive to create that environment.

Is this (getting the award) surreal for you

Yeah, I think it’s a bit surreal. Directing for me was such a natural progression and it’s something I love so much and it’s something I’ve been enjoying personally so much that it’s so weird that people want to like recognize that, you know what I mean? In my brain it’s obviously that the cherry on top, but I’m sort of surprised by it. You know so I’m grateful for it and ultimately with tonight being about quote unquote being a trailblazer I just want to live up to it. You know I feel like some of what comes with that is the expectation or the hope that I continue making things and that I continue putting things that I create into the world and I want to live up to that. And I want to live up to what they’re asking of me.

Regarding Once Upon a Time and fan pressure

Once Upon A Time 100: Jennifer Morrison Interview

KSITETV’s CRAIG BYRNE: When we last left Emma, she now needs to find Hook, and she’s bringing everyone with her. How successful do you think or hope she will be?

JENNIFER MORRISON: Emma is definitely determined to get Hook back from the Underworld and to save him. I think she feels not only just personally, she knows she loves him and she wants to be with him, but she wants to make it up to him; the sacrifices that he made to be able to save everybody. So she’s desperate to save him.

Her parents (Snow and Charming) always managed to be able to find each other, and at the end of the last mini-season, she said “I will always find you.” Do you think that’s something that she’s picked up from her parents, that might have given her more hope?

I think, for sure. Inevitably, finding your parents has to impact you. It has to impact your sense of history, and where you came from, and how you feel about yourself, and I think now that she’s found them and they’ve become a part of her life, that she’s definitely impacted by the way that they see life, and the way that they believe in things, so even if it’s slowly but surely, it’s definitely becoming a part of her in a way that it wasn’t before.

Thinking back to all the way in the first season, did you ever expect for Emma and Regina to be friends?

You know, it’s funny. I did and I didn’t. I didn’t because they did seem to be in so much conflict, but at the same time, she was the adoptive mother of Henry, and Emma was the birth mother of Henry, and so somewhere, deep down, I thought at some point, these two women have to work this out, because they both care too much about this child to not work it out.

What do you think of how that friendship has come together, especially in terms of Henry?

I think it’s great. I think it’s wonderful to see two women be true friends on television; especially two strong women. So often, we see what we saw in the first season, which is that they’re fighting, and they don’t get along, and then it’s a problem. And so, for them to have worked through that and now see eye to eye, and both really want the best for Henry, and actually be true friends who have each other’s backs and understand each other… I think it’s been a really fun friendship to explore.

What are you most excited for fans to see in Episode 100?

I think all of the people we get to bring back, now that we’re in the Underworld! It’s just been so fun for us to get to work with these actors again, and to revisit some of these storylines, and hopefully the audience will be able to enjoy that as well.

And on that note: Will we ever see Sheriff Graham again?

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