The Actors, Crew and Sets - Behind the Scenes

These shots are sometimes official studio stills and sometimes taken by visitors to the sets. This is a sample of candid behind-the-scenes photographs from every season just to show what the actual set is like on normal and not-so-normal days.

Jennifer Morrison and Colin O'Donoghue. It may be my imagination, but I think the emergence of Hook as a central character has helped Jennifer's character most of all.

We'll pretty much go in reverse chronological order, though not always. This is by no means any kind of complete compilation of anything and is not meant to be 'inclusive' or 'representative' or anything that has three or more syllables in it. It is just random shots from the show's set to give a flavor of what it's like to film the series in Vancouver. There is a ton of material out there, these shots just meet my own view of what it takes to convey life on a tv set. I think it succeeds at that goal. Let me emphasize again: purely random shots.

Captain Swan

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Colin O'Donoghue illustrating how to win fans and influence folks behind the scenes, October 2014

Georgina Haig dressed as Elsa at the BC children’s hospital

Winter Finale

There's no question who the unexpected breakout star of the show has become. This photo was taken about 9-10 October 2014.

Adam Horowitz tweeted this in November 2014, Season 4. Most likely taken around November 10.

Shot for 4x08 'Smash the Mirror', probably some time in late October 2014

These scenes were in a street of Storybrooke (Vancouver) and were taken on 22 October 2014:

These two are great!

"Oh, more baby pictures?"

Kissy kissy! I love everybody's expression.

Baby pictures!

These two below of Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas were taken at some point over the summer between seasons three and four.

Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas during Season 3

This is during Season 4

Season Four Premier: A Tale of Two Sisters

She could easily play Hillary Clinton in a biopic

Yes, Colin really does have his hook between his knees.

All that leather has got to be hot in August

Season Three Finale:









Here are a few from 3x17 "The Jolly Roger":







Rapunzel's Castle under construction for 3x14:

This was late 2013, setting up for 3x14

A few so-so shots from filming of "Witch Hunt" 3x13 on November 25, 2013:

Lana Parrilla and Jennifer Morrison (? back turned), with Colin O'Donoghue on the horse in background (behind Lana Parrilla).

Colin O'Donoghue, apparently (?) talking to Josh Dallas and Ginnifer Goodwin

Colin O'Donoghue. I wonder if he ever accidentally poked himself with that hook?

Ginnifer Goodwin and Lana Parrilla filming "Witch Hunt" November 26, 2013

Some green-screen scenes from early in Season Three aboard the Jolly Roger:






These are from the second season finale:

Colin O'Donoghue

Colin O'Donoghue and Emilie de Ravin

Josh Dallas

Some from episode 2x20 "The Evil Queen" featuring Lana Parrilla as the Evil Queen and Colin O’Donoghue as Hook:







Here are a few shots of Director David Barrett and star Lana Parrilla from the "Welcome to Storybrooke" episode.





And here are some from "The Queen is Dead."

Behind the scenes of Season 2 "The Queen is Dead" episode

Bailee Madison as young Snow White

  

The rest below are from much earlier in the series.

Lana Parrilla and Barbara Hershey

Lana Parrilla

Josh Dallas

Josh Dallas

Josh Dallas

Josh Dallas

Ginnifer Goodwin

Ginnifer Goodwin

Ginnifer Goodwin

Lana Parrilla

Ginnifer Goodwin

Lana Parrilla

The 17 shots below are from the second-season "Queen of Hearts" episode.

Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey and Colin O'Donoghue

Barbara Hershey and Colin O'Donoghue

Colin O'Donoghue

Colin O'Donoghue

Colin O'Donoghue

Ginnifer Goodwin and Jamie Chung

Colin O'Donoghue

Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey

Barbara Hershey and Colin O'Donoghue

Barbara Hershey

Sarah Bolger

2014