ONCE UPON A TIME - HITFIX: Raphael Sbarge talks about playing Jiminy Cricket on 'Once Upon A Time'
Being a bug isn't as easy or simple as it seems
By Liane Bonin Starr
Saturday, Nov 19, 2011
As an actor, Raphael Sbarge has had plenty of intriguing roles (starting with one on "Sesame Street" when he was four and followed by appearances in everything from "Pearl Harbor" to "Nip/Tuck"). But few could compare to his most recent -- he's the human version of Jiminy Cricket (yes, the little bug in "Pinocchio") on "Once Upon A Time." I talked to Sbarge about what it's like to play a cricket (well, sort of), his big episode this Sunday (November 27), and why he's glad this role isn't "clean and sparkly..."
Because "Once" is divided into two arenas -- the "real" Storybrooke and a fairytale world -- Sbarge says that we will see some "cricket talk" on Sunday but that "the majority of what you'll see is me playing me. You saw the cricket in the pilot, but he's obviously Archie in the real world. It's not all CGI characters. On Sunday's episode, you'll see that they've created the whole backstory of how Jiminy came to be. They'll also have two younger actors playing me as a young man, so you see the evolution..."
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