Reggie Lee as Sgt. Wu on "Grimm" - Photo by: Eric Ogden/NBC
Entertainment Heartbeat got a sideways interview with busy actor Reggie Lee, who really doesn’t have 10 minutes to spare but kindly allowed some questions while on the run.
Lee has been working nonstop since 1996 and at the moment has three feature films ready for release next Summer (including The Dark Knight Rises), but is most enthusiastic about his new NBC hit series Grimm.
We were curious what Lee thought of working on a supernatural set…”amidst beasts?” Lee says, finishing the question for us. “The great thing for us as an actor especially in this one it’s a very reality based show for us, you know there’s one person that’s able to see these people morph into different characters of the Grimm fairy tales…In one way I’m so jealous that he’s able to throw himself into this different world, like Alice in Wonderland, getting thrown into that hole, on the other hand, it’s a very hard job for him (David Giuntoli, who plays Grimm descendant Nick Burkhardt), because his reality is very different from our reality.”
While the premise of Grimm is still fresh and exciting, the series will eventually have to evolve as the characters get wise to Nick’s secrets.
“How long can you go on without his partner finding out? Lee says, knowing that the road may soon take a new direction. “I think that’s going to be the exciting part of the show, when you see six series regulars start trying to figure out what’s going on, so we’ll go down that road and see what happens.”
While Lee’s character is one of the appeals of Grimm, he also remains an enthusiastic fan. “They’ve really done a great job in taking these fairy tales and making it very individual to each particular episode and what I like too is that sometimes for us as actors we don’t find out until the very end of the episode; ‘oh it’s that fairly tale,’ because they’ve done such a good job in quote-unquote, fracturing fairly tales, kind of turning it on its head, in sometimes not figuring out until the very end which one it is.”
Lee and the other fans know that whichever direction Grimm takes, the otherworldly journey will continue to be a thrill ride with euphoric drops, turns, surprises.
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