David Giuntoli and the cast of NBC’s Grimm are no strangers to the twisted world of bizarre and scary creatures having dealt with so many on the popular series. So making the trek once again to San Diego for the annual gathering of geekness called Comic-Con must not seem out of the ordinary at all to the Grimm cast. And in fact, Giuntoli appeared right at home talking about the show during the NBC panel in Hall H and when answering questions in the slightly less intimidating press room following the show’s Q&A with fans.
David Giuntoli Grimm Interview:
Your character started off with no one really knowing about this secret life he’s leading, but now more and more ‘humans’ are finding out. Do you see the show becoming more like The Grimm Adventures?
David Giuntoli: “I hope so. [Laughing] The Grimm Adventures. Yeah, it certainly has been a process of collecting more and more people on my side and creating my own family. Yeah, Nick was born into this place where everybody was always on the move, avoiding people. Aunt Marie and Nick moved a million times and lived in a trailer often. So, the Grimm life was a solitary life, but it is the new age where we all can be happy together. I now have some cool Wesen friends, and my partner gets it. My girlfriend kind of gets a little bit now, so I’m like, ‘All right, I’m out of the closet, and people seem to be accepting me.’ So, I think that it can move toward a kind of group thing.”
Once you get out of the coffin? [last season ended with Nick infected by zombie slime and seemingly dead in a coffin]
David Giuntoli: “Out of the coffin, yeah. When do I get out of the coffin? Who knows?”
You tell us.
David Giuntoli: “Who knows?”
It seems like you’re going to have a big change this next season. Are you looking forward to that?
David Giuntoli: “Yeah. I mean, I think it’s fun to take Grimm anywhere. I can’t tell you where we eventually end up, if anywhere, but it would be cool to take it to Europe. That’s all I’ll say.”
Do you think he’s in a happier place now, emotionally?
David Giuntoli: “He’s in a happier place. I think he’s in a more solid place. I don’t think he’s happy because, I mean, honestly, like I always see the Grimm thing, like the Grimmstincts people kind of write about. It’s like you have this rare blood and you have this rare sole responsibility to kind of squash this certain type of evil that is inherent in my blood. So every time something wrong happens to anybody, I always view it as like it happened to my little sister. Like, you get over the top of it. So, I don’t think he’s happy, but he’s in a far more solid place, you know?”
How much input do you actually have?
David Giuntoli: “None as far as storyline, but everything as far as character choice.”
Do you think that you and Juliet will have a “happily ever after?”
David Giuntoli: “No!”
No way?
David Giuntoli: “No way! This is Grimm. She’s going to like behead me or something in season five. I think we might have a good run here for a little while, but who knows who’s good and who knows who’s bad. There are people who are bad that we don’t know, yet. You know, we don’t know that they’re bad yet, I should say.”
We’ve already heard so much about the Wesen world. They have this whole hierarchy but we don’t know as much about the Grimm history. Will we learn more about the history?
David Giuntoli: “We do. We actually, I think we meet another Grimm during this season at some point for an extended period of time.”
That was the rumor that we heard.
David Giuntoli: “That’s what you heard? Yeah, that’s going to be cool. It’s going to be an unlikely person.”
Can you picture where they’re going to take the show in later seasons?
David Giuntoli: “I mean, I think the power gets greater every season, and his confidence gets greater every season. I never know where the show’s going to end up. It’s like I’m a zombie today. It’s crazy. It’s like I’m guest-starring on another show. But who knows? That’s the joy of it.”
