Grimm Stars Remember Their 'Very Scary,' 'Vile,' 'Sensual' (?!) First Times
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Claire Coffee
CHARACTER | Adalind, a Hexenbiest
BEASTLY BREAKOUT | "Pilot," Season 1
When it comes to those monster moments, resident Hexenbiest Coffee tells TVLine, the show's stunt doubles really have the most work. The main cast members morph with the help of computer-generated imagery, but those doing the punching, kicking and falling generally do so with their faces covered. "There was one time in a big, epic fight scene with Nick in the forest, my stunt double was in full makeup and full mask. And she was moving around so much, they had to use that [take]. But when it was me, [it was] all CGI and I just had to do a bit of growling." Now that the series is in its third season, "We've all gotten really good at – well, Silas especially – this shake-it-on, shake-it-off wogue."
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Silas Weir Mitchell
CHARACTER | Monroe, a Blutbad
BEASTLY BREAKOUT | "Pilot," Season 1
The first time Mitchell had to change from a meat-shunning clock enthusiast to a bloodthirsty wolf creature is imprinted in his mind, the actor says, "Because I was like, 'All right. We're shooting a pilot about people who are inside these people... and now things are just coming out? And I don't know what I'm doing.' It was very scary, just rolling with it." After positive — though not entirely enlightening – feedback from those watching, Mitchell decided his wogue would look "something like a shifting. That's what it became. These things, you're just like, 'I think that is what it is.' And then they take, and they work."
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Bree Turner
CHARACTER | Rosalee, a Fuchsbau
BEASTLY BREAKOUT | "Island of Dreams," Season 1
Turner's first turn as a foxy Fuchsbau came on her first day of filming opposite Silas Weir Mitchell. "I grab his arm, and we have this great moment where we're staring at each other. We sniff each other out," she says. "I'm going to be honest: You feel like an a—hole the first time, because you don't have prosthetics on. You just have these neon dots on your face." But with time, "It gets easier," she notes. "Actually, the more you own it, the cooler it is... Now I have this image of a Pantene commercial every time Rosalee morphs, because I try to make it as feminine and sensual as I can. 'Cause all the guys are so aggressive, and Rosalee is just this soulful little fox, so I try to make her moves fluid and graceful."
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Sasha Roiz
CHARACTER | Capt. Renard, a half Zauberbiest
BEASTLY BREAKOUT | "The Kiss," Season 2
For the first season or so that Grimm was on the air, Roiz swore to inquisitive fans that Sean Renard had no beast inside. "I'm like, 'I don't morph. I'm a Royal. I'm not like that' – only to find the scripts in the second season informing me that, 'No, you are, actually,'" he says, laughing. "So then I quickly created a little backstory in my head, which is [that the Wesen side is] a side that he's very ashamed of." The police captain's disgust for his roots wasn't hard to convey in his first wogue scene, seeing as how it was aided by a questionable potion Adalind's mom told him to drink. "It was a really vile yogurt concoction with bits of spice and things with chunky bits and gelatinous something or other to make it look even worse than it was," Roiz remembers with a shudder. "I can still taste it."