Colin uses all of Robert’s inflections and manner of speaking in this scene…good actor.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I RE-WATCHED THIS SCENE ON MY TV JUST IN AWE OF COLIN’S ACTING. DO YOU? IT WAS OVER FIVE. EVEN HIS HAND MOVEMENTS WERE RHYTHMICALLY LIKE RUMPLE’S. AND THE KICKER IS RUMPLE IS TRYING TO SOUND LIKE HOOK. AND HE ALMOST SUCCEEDS. HE USES KILLIAN’S BUZZ WORDS LIKE ALAS AND LOVE BUT HE CAN’T STOP HIMSELF FROM TALKING IN HIS NATURAL RHYTHM. IT’S SLIGHTLY SLOWER AND CALMER (ESPECIALLY BECAUSE YOU CAN TELL IT’S SCRIPTED (BY RUMPLE)). HE PAUSES BETWEEN WORDS BECAUSE HE THINKS HIS WORDS ARE MORE IMPORTANT. THERE IS A BALANCED PATTERN OF WHETHER THE ENDS OF HIS WORDS GO UP OR DOWN. SO COLIN IS SPEAKING LIKE HOOK SPEAKING LIKE RUMPLE SPEAKING LIKE HOOK. AND ITS SUBTLE AND SO THERE AND THAT’S WHAT MAKES THE ACTING SO GOOD TO WATCH. AND HIS EYES. HIS MOTHERFUCKING EYES IN THIS SCENE. ACTING IS ALL ABOUT THE EYES AND COLIN FUCKING NAILS IT. BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE THAT LIGHTS ARE ONE BUT NO ONE IS HOME. EXCEPT THE MOMENT AT THE END WHERE HE IS GRABBING EMMA’S ARM AND FIGHTING FOR CONTROL AND HIS EYES FLICKER TO LIFE MORE. COLIN. COLIIIIIIIN. I WANT TO JUST HEAR YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR ACTING PROCESS FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER.
This!
This is my favorite scene in this whole show for exactly that reason. No really, the whole entire 4 seasons. It was brilliantly acted, the musical score was haunting. The whole thing has this horrible creeping quality that literally made me shudder and gave me goosebumps.
Every time I watch it … when gold/Killian says ‘love’ I just want to shower ad purge off the nastiness because oh, God, no!
Brilliant.
To this day I am still 100% incapable of not doing this:
ALL OF THIS and so much more. I’m always confused by people who cite any of the 4×08-4×11 scenes (especially kisses) as “great CS scenes” because I see shades of Rumple in ALL of them and I prefer my CS romance without Dark Ones orchestrating one half of them. Like, Rumple just never quite gets it “right” and it’s straight up creepy that he’s, like, kissing Emma using Killian’s face to do so. I don’t even consider them CS kisses, to be honest. I’m not sure what they are (and admittedly, I love them from a whump standpoint), but they ain’t romantic or passionate or whatever. Noooope. And by 4×11, it’s like Rumple’s figuring no one’s noticed so far, he must be doing a great job, this is so easy, he could do it in his sleep… and he’s stopped even trying so hard. And then STILL no one notices, which is a whole ‘nother topic.
This whole post is excellent.
To add, my favorite part was him saying, “He gave me some long-winded explanation about the portal, about how it brought the Snow Queen to this land… which I don’t recall.” Because tbh I thought that was Rumple’s bias against Hook showing, him trying to make it sound like Hook was an idiot who couldn’t understand the magical mumbo-jumbo, but in reality it played off well because it’s very in character for Hook to boredly zone out when Rumple is giving a lecture.
(Also the slight eye roll that not even Rumple could stop when he’s saying Rumple has turned over a new leaf lmao)
It All Starts With a Dance 