Josh Dallas Reflects on the Legacy of ‘Once Upon a Time’: ‘It’s Super Humbling’
Josh Dallas is looking back at his time on Once Upon a Time.
In an interview with People published on Monday (June 5), the 44-year-old actor reflected on the legacy of the hit series, which originally aired from 2011 to 2018.
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Josh began by noting the similarities between his character on Once Upon a Time and his character on Manifest.
“I really started leaning into it and thinking, ‘Oh, my god. Am I in The Truman Show? Is this some sort of warped sequel to Prince Charming?’” he joked. “There were definitely some overlapping ideas and themes, which I wholly welcomed because they’re great ideas and they’re great themes. I fully embraced it. The Oncers and the Manifesters became one.”
He went on to say that his time on Once Upon a Time prepared him for his role on Manifest.
“Both shows are big ideas grounded in something very real, and that’s family. Being on a show like Once Upon a Time for as long as I was, somehow primed for that kind of storytelling. It’s something that I really love because I think when you’re dealing with fantasy, sci-fi, whatever you want to call it, you’re able to get across ideas in ways that you can’t in other genres,” Josh explained.
He added, “I really love that and I love the type of audience that those kinds of shows bring because the fans of these shows are amazing. They’re so involved and they’re so smart and they’re so invested that it just makes it all worth it.”
Once Upon a Time is still finding new fans since it was added to Disney+, which Josh called “super humbling.”
“It’s still finding an audience,” he shared. “People come up to me all the time talking about Once and saying they just started watching it and they’re loving it. Or I’ve had people come up to me — which makes me feel old, but that’s okay — they’ll say, ‘You were my childhood. You got me through college, all through high school’ and that show changed their life and it’s super humbling. It’s just nothing but gratitude to be part of a show that was such a big part of some people’s fabric of their lives.”
He added that he and his wife Ginnifer Goodwin – who starred on Once Upon a Time with him – were currently trying to get their sons to watch the series.
“We keep trying to shove Once Upon a Time down our boys’ throats and they just don’t want to watch it,” he told the outlet. “I think that’s probably a healthy reaction that they could care less about mom and dad on screen. But we’ve tried, we’ve tried several times to get them to watch Once Upon a Time because they’re at the right age and I think they would really enjoy it. But they’re just not interested at all.”
Once Upon a Time is currently streaming on Disney+, while Manifest is streaming on Netflix. Josh was recently seen reuniting with his Manifest co-stars and you can see all the photos here.
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