GRIMM - STARRY CONSTELLATION MAGAZINE: SILAS WEIR MITCHELL INTERVIEW
by: Lisa Steinberg
March 2013
... Q) Monroe seems to get all the best lines followed by Sergeant Wu. Do you ever get to help the writers and contribute to that sense of humor? And do you enjoy being that little extra bit of - of humor?
Silas Weir Mitchell: "Yes, I do. I do enjoy it very, very much. I think Monroe is a - he's a really, really - it's a really fun mind space to live in. And, yes, he does get very fun lines. I mean help the writers is a little much because these guys are - I mean I. The only way that one could say that I help them is if I happen to catch some minor inconsistency that is the type of thing that actors always find because we dive all the way into it. And writers can only go so deeply into each characters narrative. Because there's fact there's eight of us that they have to deal with and sometimes more. So help them not so much. But do I find things - like, oh, maybe this might work better here because - that happens, sure. I mean I used to pester the writers in the first season. It's just like trying to figure out. I was pestering them, like, what exactly - maybe I should say this or do I - what do I mean exactly? And I was trying to figure out the world. But now that we've kind of got it down I don't have to call them quite as often."
Q) Why do you think audiences are drawn to these supernatural shows?
Silas Weir Mitchell: "That's an interesting question. I think first of all people always - people enjoy being scared and I think that's part of what's fun about Grimm is that, you know, we continue to try to make every episode have something in that - that you want to - that's either going to make you jump or turn away or close your eyes and look through your fingers. So I think people enjoy that, that's why, you know, horror movies are big business. As far as the supernatural thing goes I think - it's just there's a certain segment of the population and there's a certain type, you know, people call them genre stories. There's always going to be a type of storytelling that allows a person both the writer and the reader or the creator and the spectator to paint with a broader brush in a way and imagine the world in a way that it could be but we don't see it as being that way. And I think that's exciting for people to operate from a - just premise that the world is slightly other than what we see. It's still recognizable but it's other. I think that there's always going to be a segment of the population that wants to experience that type of reality as opposed to something that's just, you know, taking place like a lawyer show or a hospital show. There's always going to be people that want to imagine the world as slightly tweaked..."
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