GRIMM - LOS ANGELES TIMES SHOW TRACKER: Silas Wier Mitchell is the not so big, bad wolf on NBC's 'Grimm'
October 27, 2011
by Yvonne Villarreal
The big bad wolf is about to get an image makeover.
In the new NBC fantasy crime drama "Grimm," which premieres Friday, fairy tales get a twist. Nick Burckhardt (David Giuntoli) is a Portland, Ore., police detective who learns he is a descendant of a long line of hunters that battle fairy tale monsters to protect the human race. And he finds an unlikely ally: a wolf (only in "Grimm" they're known as blutbads). Silas Wier Mitchell plays Monroe, a reformed blutbad who helps Nick with his cases.
Showtracker spoke to the actor about the role, the pressure Taylor Lautner has placed on hirsute wannabes, and what viewers can expect this season...
Silas Wier Mitchell as Monroe courtesy of NBC
... Q: I'm used to seeing you play mentally unstable people in "Prison Break" and "My Name Is Earl." Is being a reformed wolf sort of the same thing?
Silas Wier Mitchell: "Ha! I have sort of mastered being insane. But this is qualitatively different. I am a human who is a descendant of blutbad. The idea is really that the detective (David) is a descendant of the Grimms. He acquires this skill in the pilot because the last of his antecedents is dying, so the skill passes to him. It enables him to see beyond the human mask of these people who are criminals and who have given themselves over to the darker side of human nature. The idea behind all of this is the idea that Grimm fairy tales weren't actually fairy tales; they were actually cautionary tales that the Brothers Grimm cleaned up to make more palatable. If you look at the stories closely, they're dealing with abduction, home invasion, murder. The idea is that I am human. It's like Charles Manson; if Nick saw Charles Manson, he would see him not as a crazy-looking human, but he'd see him as the creature that he is. It's a psycho-mythological type of drama..."
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