What’s going to happen to Adalind’s baby on the upcoming season of NBC’s hit fantasy series, Grimm? Claire Coffee doesn’t have a clue, but she has ideas as to what she’d like to see happen to her character on season three of the popular show. And at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con, Coffee talked to us about what we can expect from the new season.
Claire Coffee Grimm Interview
What can you say about the upcoming season?
Claire Coffee: “I can tell you that I actually came from set to the airport to here, so what we just did….there’s a lot of blood, there’s a lot of gore, and Adalind is fiercely and anyway she knows how trying to get those powers back. Adalind and Stefania [played by Shohreh Aghdashloo] are forming this alliance, and they’re both getting something out of it.”
Once they’re back, who do you think is going to get it first?
Claire Coffee: “That’s a really good question. I think Adalind has spent this time off kind of formulating her hit list. I think she just wants – more than to kill anybody – I think she wants to get as much power as possible. She wants to rise in the hierarchy, so I think it will depend on who’s at the top of the food chain and that will be first on the list.”
Can you drop a hint on the baby daddy?
Claire Coffee: “I don’t even know. I don’t even think they know quite yet. If they know, they haven’t told me. I read the first three episodes. But I was put in a life cast for the baby belly that I’m going to grow, so I know that she’s going to be carrying the baby to term. But that’s about all I can say about that.”
What’s it like actually being on the set?
Claire Coffee: “It’s great. I love being in Portland. We do a lot of night shoots so it’s a lot of night forest. I work mostly with Shohreh Aghdashloo who is probably the most lovely person on the face of the earth. I’m off in ‘Vienna’ with Shohreh.”
Why do you think Grimm has caught on with audiences?
Claire Coffee: “You know, the people who come up to me the most are people who say, ‘We watch it with our whole family. Everybody watches on Friday nights.’ So, I think it really does have something for everybody. Like, the younger audiences that kind of fantasy…it gets a little bit scary, so that keeps the people who are into gore and horror and thriller on board. But there’s heart to the show, there’s romance. I think it just kind of covers everything.”
Was there ever an episode that freaked you out?
Claire Coffee: “Yeah. The fly episode was so gory, and so that really, really grossed me out.”
Do you think that because of the number of supernatural shows on air these days, there’s a sense that Grimm has to up the ante?
Claire Coffee: “I definitely think you have to figure out your niche, your part of that supernatural element. And I think what ours is is really a police procedural, but we’re in the world that we live in. It’s like, ‘What if fantasy was in this world that we are all inhabiting?'”
Is there a fairy tale they haven’t explored yet that you’d like to see introduced into the series?
Claire Coffee: “You know, Hansel and Gretel was the one that terrified me the most growing up, and they did a great job with that. But they are doing more with the pigs, an episode with the pigs. This season I think it will be more about the serialized plot and kind of getting into the royal family and all of that mythology. I know that we’re going to be meeting new creatures, but I don’t know how specific they will be to the fairy tales this season.”
Do you like playing Adalind without her powers?
Claire Coffee: “I think without powers it’s just a new challenge because it’s frustrating for her to try and balance this need for power with these human emotions, so that’s interesting. But she’s fun no matter what. She’s so awful [laughing] and you can exorcise all of those terrible thoughts you have on a daily basis with her.”
If you had input into what’s going to be happening to Adalind down the road, what do you think she should be doing?
Claire Coffee: “I think she should be ruler of the universe! I hope Adalind will have to choose…she’s trying to sell her baby, but I hope it gives her pause. I’d like to think she has some connection to the baby and has some misgivings about selling the thing. So, I’m hoping that that comes into play.”
