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They looked at me and said, “We have no idea.” That’s why you have to make your own backstory.

Alan Dale

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And we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, “I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?”
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I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.
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When you’re a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.
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I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I’d become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia.
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They looked at me and said, “We have no idea.” That’s why you have to make your own backstory.

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