Why didn't Rumple or Belle have a singing number in the musical episode?

beekee404 posted over a year ago

zanhar1 posted over a year ago

They actually added his exact words into the episode "I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a rusty fork."

But he sang in a movie called California Solo.

Well, that was then, this is now. Maybe he didn't like singing for that movie and didn't want to sing again.

"However, there’s one cast member who we definitely won’t see singing and dancing on-screen if it comes to fruition. During a recent interview, Robert Carlyle (Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold) admitted that he thinks musicals in general are “weird.” “Musicals to me have always been weird. People singing at each other. Very, very odd,” he dished to Once-Storybrooke. “I do like Opera however, love a bit of Puccini, and I guess that could be called the same thing… only it’s not.” After that explanation, he broke the sad news in an interesting way, admitting, 'I’m afraid I would have to be bound and gagged and thrown onto the stage from a great height. Even then I might escape. I would escape.'"

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You'd think someone who often talks in a sing-songy voice when he plays Enchanted Forest Rumple wouldn't mind doing an actual song. lol

zanhar1 posted over a year ago