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SCIFI AND TV TALK: Q & A with Grimm's David Giuntoli and Sasha Roiz
by Steve Eramo
03/01/2012
In NBC’s fantasy drama TV series
Grimm, Homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt [
David Giuntoli] and his boss Captain Renard [
Sasha Roiz] have to uphold law and order in Portland, Oregon. Their agendas, however, are not quite the same, and both men have a secret to hide. Nick recently learned that he is descended from a centuries-old line of criminal profilers known as Grimms. They have taken up the fight to protect humanity from a race of supernatural creatures called Wesen, who involuntarily reveal their true selves to Nick. He is unaware that Renard is also able to recognize Wesen, and that is because he, too, is one. The captain belongs to a royal Wesen line and is working behind the scenes to return to the old ways.
This week’s episode,
Three Coins in a Fuchsbau (airing Friday, March 2nd @ 9:00 p.m. EST/PST on NBC), gives viewers further insight into both characters. In it, a failed jewelry store robbery results in a murder and sends Nick and his partner, Hank Griffin (
Russell Hornsby), on a hunt for rare coins. Nick discovers that the coins have an unsettling effect on anyone who posses them, and Hank and Renard appear to have fallen under their influence. Meanwhile, a mysterious old friend of Aunt Marie’s (guest-star
Titus Welliver) arrives in town with information on Nick’s past, including his parents’ death.
Earlier this week,
Grimm’s David Giuntoli and
Sasha Roiz took time out of their busy schedules to speak with myself as well as other journalists about their characters and working on the series...
...
Q: So what do we have to look forward to in these episodes coming up and the second half of the season?
Sasha Roiz: "
Well, that's a good question. Like I mentioned earlier, we've been given a lot of freedom to explore the mythology and the back stories of the characters as well as the interpersonal relationships. So it's been tremendous fun for us to get to know our characters a bit better as well as each other and one another's characters.
So we're not quite as burdened by certain strictly procedural storylines. We get the chance to play a little bit of the Grimm map so to speak."
David Giuntoli: "
Sasha is completely right. We're more comfortable in our roles now. We've laid the foundation for kind of defining what this Grimm world is, so now we kind of get to play within that.
There are going to be some upcoming episodes, especially this Friday’s Three Coins in a Fuchsbau, that really drives the overall storyline forward and answers some questions for my character and the viewers..."
