What We Do in the Shadows ’s final season premieres on FX October 21. It’s a gray, chilly April day in Toronto with just two weeks left to film What We Do in the Shadows ’s sixth and final season. The FX comedy follows a group of vampires living in an old mansion in Staten Island and participating in an unnamed documentary.
The cast is preparing to film a house-meeting scene, so each of the roommates has gathered in the “fancy room”: Nandor the Relentless (played by Kayvan Novak), a once-imposing Ottoman general who’s now a softhearted self-help-books-reading vampire; Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry), a randy Victorian gentleman of science; Laszlo’s wife, Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou), a headstrong, scrappy Greek former peasant; and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), a midwestern cubicle-coded “energy vampire” who derives sustenance from sucking the life out of the room. The other main cast member, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), a human familiar turned vampire turned human once more, isn’t in this scene, having once again left the house in the dangerously hapless hands of his immortal onetime employers. Demetriou holds a pillow in her lap as she’s several months’ pregnant and has spent the season learning every trick for hiding her belly.
“Carry a bucket, carry a box, put a pillow on your lap, stand behind a fruit bowl,” she says. Nandor makes his rousing declaration: The roommates will meet here every night to work on their plan for finally co.
