Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-3125844-20150318175203/@comment-3125844-20150322064837

Here are some teasers from Bitsie Tulloch:

"Q: Can you tell us a little bit about the collaboration with the writers and how much they have clued you in as to where this is going to go? If it’s going to be a permanent thing or if it’s maybe going to resolve or change at some point, either later this season or next season?

Bitsie Tulloch: That’s a really great question. Sometimes we know more and we have a little bit of a heads-up. And then sometimes what I’ve found with the showrunners, Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt, is that they’re really open to ideas and stuff. And it’s very much a collaborative process. But a lot of the times stuff changes because the show moves pretty quickly. The [last] episode [to air] (#4.14, “Bad Luck”)… we shot in January, and it’s already airing. And they go on Facebook. They go on social media. And they see the stuff that the fans really like. And they’ll give them more of that… the Hexenbiest has been incredibly popular among the fans. And so don’t expect that to be going anywhere anytime soon.

The season finale for this season is the biggest game changer we have ever had… people will lose their minds. There’s going to be… gosh, I don’t know what I can say without giving it away other than yes, we’ve never done anything this big on the show before. So that’s going to really change everything going into Season 5. And the Juliette Hexenbiest storyline has a lot to do with that. The reality is that going forward, you’re going to see a lot of the push-pull with her psychologically wanting this power. And I think it adds a really interesting element to the story for her to turn really, really dark.

Q: How big a role does Juliette have in the finale?

Bitsie Tulloch: Everything. She is going to cause major, major problems for basically everyone involved. The reality is she misses Nick and she loves him. But she just can’t imagine a way for them to be able to stay together under the circumstances. She’s been told by numerous people now there’s absolutely nothing she can do about it. And so what else would you do? I mean, you have to embrace your new life. She has to go forward with that. And she is dead set on embracing it. She’s like, “If this is how it’s going to be, then I might as well be the best Hexenbiest I can. And there’s a darkness to that that’s going to seep into her veins. And you’re not going to really see the sort of sweet, loving girlfriend that everybody’s gotten used to for the last few seasons.

Q: Moving into Season 5, especially with the game changer that you’re talking about, do you see your characters moving to different locations outside of Portland, kind of how Adalind has moved around throughout the series? Or are you still going to keep the home base in Portland?

Bitsie Tulloch: I’m not sure about that. I can’t imagine that “Grimm” is really ever going to take place in any other city besides Portland. Portland is the perfect setting for this because the city in and of itself has not only these luscious forests, but there’s also a little bit of an eerie quality because the weather can be… you know, it’s gray. You have these really thick forests, and they get really dark during the day. And also the city has been so great to us, and we love shooting here. We certainly haven’t run out of locations to shoot in. If anything, you might see a little bit more of a storyline with one character maybe going off to Europe or something. But otherwise I would imagine it would be pretty centered in Portland still."