"We wanted Catherine to be somebody who could be saved, but [who] could also save Vincent. We wanted to understand why he was a beast, which back then [on the original show] maybe wasn't as important. The CW said, you don't have to be beholden to anything."
“For anybody who has grown up and felt different, who feels like as good as you are, you’re only going to be a beast in x amount of peoples’ eyes no matter what you do, I think a lot of people – whether it’s nationality, whether it’s sexuality, gender, whatever it is – a lot of people have felt that at one point or another, and I think what’s really great about this show is that we really tap into the ‘inner beast’,”Read the whole interview from the source
"We actually didn’t come in until after the pilot was shot because Jen and Sherri wrote the pilot and shot it and then brought us on. What was interesting to me was how they actually went to 9/11 and they chose that as part of his back story that we can unravel because it’s something that people have shied away from for very obvious reasons. The opportunity to deal with some of that aftermath and the sensitivity, we can use that, and it will be a really neat thing."
"It's huge. It can just go everywhere. There can be other beasts, because they were part of a military experiment, so he has other friends of there," he theorizes. "Most of them are supposed to be killed. There are so many avenues you can go. Because it's a chemical mutation, I like the idea of it getting bigger and bigger inside of him and what that can do."
"It's a procedural with this beautiful forbidden romance that it's all built around. But at its heart... it's the universal Beauty and the Beast story; it's forbidden love."
