What We Do in the Shadows star’s fave scene – Exclusive – Looper

Season 2 of What We Do in the Shadowsends with a bang: Nandor,LaszloCravensworth (Matt Berry),Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) have been trapped by the Vampire Council and are about to pay for their crimes of killing other vampires even though they actually didn't do anything and Guillermo was the one who killed everyone. They're about to be decapitated when the only person who can save them, Guillermo, shows up and slaughters an entire theater filled with the undead. It's an amazing sequence, and it was Guilln's favorite to film for season 2.

"It really showcased Guillermo coming into his own and taking initiative and actually saying his full name out loud for the first time, where we set up [that] the vampires don't even know his last name," Guilln said of the scene. "The joke was, 'Guillermo Biermo.' They've been working with someone for so long ten years have gone by, you don't bother to learn someone's last name. The power in that is that you don't know somebody. You think you know somebody, but you don't, and you don't know the power that they have. And so for me, personally, it was just a great trajectory for his character. Guillermo coming to his own, which leads to the great cliffhanger, and now where do we go from there for season 3?"

On season 2, we also dove deeper into a side of Guillermo we hadn't really seen before: his family. As Guilln told us, "We introduced his mom and his household, which I loved, and I was very hands-on with. I wanted to make sure that we were authentic to the character as possible, being of Mexican background and the household and his mom, who was amazing. Just the small little details." That opened the door for many possibilities going into the future. Will Guillermo's mom play a larger role moving forward?Will we see more of his connection to Van Helsing?We'll just have to wait and see.

For Guilln, he has a clear vision of what he'd like to happen for Guillermo on season 3, but he's open to anything and everything.

"Every time I think I have an idea of what I want Guillermo to be for the new, upcoming season, the writers and the producers always have something up their sleeve that gives us a curve ball and it's like, "Oh, I didn't see that coming, but that works, and I love it,'" he toldLooper."For me personally, I would love to dive more into his heritage, how he got these kind of natural powers to be this vampire killer, and to see the family lineage."

Guillermo de la Cruz really came into his own on season 2 ofWhat We Do in the Shadows. It definitely seems like the power dynamic has changed, and Guillermo is going to be on a bit more equal footing with his vampire compatriots. Now's the perfect time to catch up on the series, available to stream now on Hulu.

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Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero