SCIFI AND TV TALK: Q & A with Grimm's Bitsie Tulloch
By Steve Eramo
03/08/2012
Once upon a time, Grimm’s Juliette Silverton and her boyfriend, Portland, Oregon homicide detective Nick Buckhardt, thought they led your average, quiet life, but all that changed when Nick’s Aunt Marie arrived unexpectedly in town. She revealed to her nephew that he was a descendant of the Grimms, a long line of ancient profilers who protected humankind from a species of supernatural creatures called Wesen.
When Marie died at the hands of one of these creatures, Nick reluctantly took over the Grimm mantle, and ever since then life has been anything but ordinary for him or Juliette. Little by little, the Grimm world has seeped into their “normal” world, and it has not been easy for Nick to try to hide that from Juliette. It becomes even harder for him in this week’s episode, Plumed Serpent, when a case Nick and his partner Hank Griffin are investigating directly threatens Juliette and their increasingly strained relationship.
Stage and screen actress Bitsie Tulloch, who can currently be seen in the Academy Award-winning film The Artist, plays Juliette. Prior to Grimm, she was seen as Dylan in the NBC drama series quarterlife as well as guest-starred on such series as House, The West Wing, Cold Case and Lost. Earlier this week, Tulloch chatted on the phone with me as well as other journalists about Grimm and hinted at what fans can look forward to with Juliette and Nick. The following is an edited version of our Q & A. Enjoy!
... Q: I wanted to ask you first off about the upcoming episode (Plumed Serpent). It’s a big one for your character, and I know you can only speak in very general terms, but I wondered if you could tell us what you thought when you first read the script and your overall experiences shooting the episode.
Bitsie Tulloch: "Well, this script was one of the first times that my character actually gets drawn into all of the madness, and what I can say because it has already been shown in a preview, is that Juliette is kidnapped. The story is very grand in scope, including a fire-breathing dragon. It was really cool to shoot and we had a great director (Noberto Barba) who we hadn't worked with before.
I can also tell you that this episode is the first time Juliette meets Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell). They've been kind of hiding that relationship from her, so it’s a great episode as well in that it sort of opens up a lot more to happen down the road..."
Grimm airs Friday at 9/8C on NBC.
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