'Once Upon a Time' season 6 news: 'The Leftovers' actress joins cast as Hook's adversary; musical episode to air this spring?
"Once Upon a Time" will be introducing a fierce new female character when season 6 returns this spring.
According to reports, Native American actress Sara Tomko has been tapped to join the series for at least two episodes as Tiger Lily. In the "Peter Pan" tales, Tiger Lily is a member of the Piccaninny tribe residing in Neverland. She has romantic feelings for Peter and gets kidnapped by the evil Captain Hook.
ABC's small screen interpretation of Tiger Lily remains to be seen, but her arrival will certainly mean bad news for a former Neverland resident. The back half of season 6 picks up with Tiger Lily coming back into Hook's (Colin O'Donoghue) life to probably exact revenge on the pirate.
Executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis spoke with Entertainment Weekly, and they teased that Tiger Lily will cause some trouble when she is introduced. "As Captain Hook continues on his path to redemption, his dark past is never far away," the EPs said. "He's left a long line of adversaries and Tiger Lily is the latest to return and complicate his efforts to leave that past behind," they went on to say.
Aside from being in HBO's "The Leftovers," Tomko is also known for her role in the 2012 film "Extraction." She will next be seen in "The Son," an upcoming AMC drama starring Pierce Brosnan and Paola Nuñez.
Meanwhile, recent reports claim that ABC is eyeing a musical episode before the season officially wraps up this year. The network has yet to confirm if the rumors are true, but sources claim that some cast members are already preparing for the special episode. Back in 2011, lead actress Jennifer Morrison shared her thoughts on the possibility of a musical episode, and she seemed optimistic about it. "Josh Dallas, Ginny Goodwin, me.... I don't know if Robert Carlyle sings; he probably does. I feel like we have a lot of musically inclined people in the cast. We'll see!" the actress said.
The sixth season of "Once Upon a Time" returns on Sunday, March 5, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.