It always makes me smile when actors really stand up for their characters. No one - no matter how hard you love a character - will ever love them as much as the actor themselves.
I hope we get to see Belle and Rumple dancing! In another interview, they said they have an iconic Beauty and the Beast moment in the first episode, hint hint
I think it's funny that unlike Colin O'Donoghue or Sarah Bolger, Robert Carlyle isn't doing a completely different accent as Mr. Gold, he's still Scottish, but in real life he's got a much more broad accent. Maybe it's because here he's being easygoing whereas Mr. Gold is fairly intense.