Harvey Guillén will not let Guillermo go so easily!
Speaking to PEOPLE recently mid-release Desire on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD, the 33-year-old actor revealed that he and his What we do in the shadows actors are “in the middle of filming” the sixth and final season of their hit FX vampire spoof series.
Asked if he would take anything from the set as a memento of his time, Guillén jokes as he nods fiercely: “I wouldn’t dare. How dare you? I won’t even admit it.”
The actor admits he took his character’s “original glasses” from the show’s pilot episode, which aired in March 2019.
“I didn’t know the pilot was going to get picked up, but I fell in love with the character so much that I thought, ‘If this show doesn’t continue, at least I’ll have a small part of her character,'” says Guillén.
From L: Kayvan Novak, Harvey Guillén and Matt Berry in the pilot episode What we do in the shadows (2019).
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“I always like to take a little piece,” he continues. “So I have Guillermo’s original glasses from the pilot still with me, and I was lucky enough to have one of Guillermo’s original sweaters. So I have a little bit of him forever.”
Fortunately for Guillén, What we do in the shadows it became a real supernatural sensation. Did flight of the concord Directed by Jemaine Clement and based on the 2015 film of the same name (which Clement, 50, co-directed with Taika Waititi), the series follows the daily lives of four vampires in Staten Island, New York who struggle to fit into human life. of the world, with many funny mishaps along the way.
Guillén plays Guillermo de la Cruz, a mild-mannered acquaintance of the vampire Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak’s real-life best friend) with a lifelong goal of becoming a vampire himself — only to learn that he is descended from the famous vampire hunter Van Helsing.
The series also stars Matt Berry as Laszlo Cravensworth, Natasia Demetriou as Nadja of Antipaxtos, Mark Proksch as “energy vampire” Colin Robinson and Kristen Schaal as the Guide, among many recurring and one-time guest stars such as Beanie Feldstein, Nick Kroll, Mark Hamill , Fred Armisen, Doug Jones, Vanessa Bayer, Haley Joel Osment, Sofia Coppola, Patton Oswalt and even Waititi, 48.
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Although it’s “hard to hang out as a group” for Guillén and his cast mates, since most of them live in the UK and he’s in Los Angeles, they still make time for each other off set when they can.
“Whenever we work, Kayvan and I go out to dinner. We have little friendly snacks,” he says Blue Beetle actor. – I am very close to him and his fiancee.
“And we plan dinners. When I went to London, I stayed in their apartment and they cooked dinner for me. So I think that luckily we became closer and at home, and by choice we became best friends,” he adds.
Guillén tells PEOPLE that Shadows The cast and crew “haven’t had a finale party in years,” due to the COVID-19 pandemic that broke out early in the series’ run.
That said, the series finale could be the perfect time for the biggest and best party around. “I think this might be our last year to do it. So we’re hopeful,” says Guillén.
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Seasons 1 to 5 of What we do in the shadows streaming on Hulu.
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