GRIMM - NEWS OK: Actor Silas Weir Mitchell talks about the new NBC drama “Grimm” and playing a were-creature
BY MELISSA HAYER
November 21, 2011
Who's afraid of the big, bad Blutbad?
“Monroe,” a reformed werewolf creature called a Blutbad, hopes no one is.
Actor Silas Weir Mitchell's character is just trying to live a normal life among humans in the new drama “Grimm,” the series inspired by the classic Grimm's Fairy Tales and which airs at 8 p.m. Fridays on NBC.
Mitchell appeared as convicted killer Glen Ake in the movie “Heaven's Rain,” which was filmed and set in Oklahoma, but he's back on television with “Grimm.”
Monroe assists Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) in solving crimes perpetrated by other creatures who don't want to be as good as he is.
Burkhardt has discovered he's a descendant of an elite line of criminal profilers known as “Grimms” who are charged with the responsibility of keeping balance between humanity and the mythological beings of the world.
The pair build a friendship as they work together on this mission.
Philadelphia native Mitchell, whose acting resume includes appearances on television shows such as “Prison Break,” “My Name Is Earl” and “24,” answered questions about “Grimm” and his role on the show during a recent NBC phone conference call...
... Q: Is there any makeup involved in your transformation, or is it entirely CGI?
Silas Weir Mitchell: "No, it's not. It's both. The idea is that it's CGI on top of makeup, but you still can tell that it's my face. There's a lot of stuff that goes into it, but the three ingredients really are prosthetics, computer graphics and my face.
Because the idea is that when someone morphs, they don't just turn into a werewolf quote unquote, like generic, or someone is like a ... beetle creature, or you know, whatever. They don't just turn into a beetle, they turn into their beetle, you know what I mean?
They turn into what they would look like as this creature, so they really make an effort to fuse the prosthetics and the CGI in such a way that you can tell that it's me underneath it. And they do that with other creatures that are coming down the pike..."
