Did You Have a Contrivance?

Both emily and milly said that they did not talk at all to the actors who played the older counterparts of their characters. Did you ordain that to be the case? If i remember correctly, i think it there. It was really important for us to make each actor feel the possibilities. We weren't putting limits on them. We wanted to know what they thought. Part of the real surprise and shock and delight of this episode is figuring out where these characters are in relation to each other. Now, all of a sudden you feel this real curdled animosity between christian cole and princess renera,. and this seemingly now unbridgeable divide between alice and hen