We chat with WhatWeDointheShadows stars Harvey Guillén (HARVEYGUILLEN) and Kristen Schaal (kristenschaaled) about Guillermo and The Guide's season 5 arcs and their fake fang troubles:
The vampire world is about to get a new initiate with What We Do in the Shadows season 5. The return of the horror-comedy show will see a fed-up Guillermo turn to someone else for his vampire transformation, upsetting the balance in his home, Nandor hurt by Guillermo's absence, a rejuvenated Colin Robinson getting into politics, only to come under threat of a secret organization, and Nadja revisiting her roots, much to Laszlo's dismay.
Harvey Guillén & Kristen Schaal Talk What We Do in the Shadows Season 5 Screen Rant: Kristen, this season gets to see you become a regular cast member for the show. What was it like when you heard that they were bumping you up to an even bigger role, including landing in the opening credits, after recurring appearances before?
It has so many great characters, such as The Guide, but also Gizmo over here is just always a delight to watch. Especially this season with what's going on with him. Harvey, what was it like when you saw the scripts, and you saw that you were going to finally start to take a step towards what Guillermo wanted this whole time, but still not quite get there?
Harvey Guillén: I mean, I'm usually covered in a little bit of blood, because of collecting the victims for Nandor and the rest of the vampire gang in the house. But never that amount of blood. I think we had like 15 minutes of gushing blood in a tank ready to go, and I think that we had to be cautious to not mess anything up, because it's a setup. So, we have to clean the floor up, clean the ceiling, clean the whole back room of this convenience store.
Harvey Guillén: Right, so that kind of helped. But they mold your teeth, and they make it, so they fit into your own existing teeth. But, something happened where the first mold got damaged, so it takes like 20 minutes or something in the mold, and then we couldn't use them.
I think there's a lot of people in a lot of school and work situations that are socially trying to fit into a group that maybe just doesn't want them there. It takes up a lot of energy, it's really hard, and it's like something that with circumstances, sometimes you don't have any other options. I don't know, again, it's a common, sad social thing, everybody's like, "Be kind, be friendly," but that's just not reality.
I think that it was perfect timing, where we present that drag is not a crime, and that it is part of gay culture, is part of queer culture, and that it's entertaining, it's fun, it's beautiful. So, we were lucky enough that we can intertwine a lot of that stuff that is part of queer culture into comedy that is already having the best time ever, and just sprinkle some queerness in it, just the cherry on top.
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