What We Do in the Shadows‘ Kayvan Novak on ‘Nandermo’ in Season 6

On What We Do successful the Shadows, Nandor is astir apt the goofiest of the vampires—even if helium doesn’t recognize it, since helium has a complete deficiency of self-awareness astatine each times. io9 got a accidental to speech to Kayvan Novak astir what’s successful store for play six, including Nandor’s ever-conflicted narration with his erstwhile familiar, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), and an occurrence wherever helium concisely thinks he’s an infamous erstwhile American president.

Cheryl Eddy, io9: Did you already bash a Richard Nixon content oregon did you person to make that for the show?

Kayvan Novak: I didn’t. I was alert of Richard Nixon, but I conjecture the movie Good Morning Vietnam was truly [where I got astir of my awareness] of him and his quality and radical making amusive of him. Robin Williams does an content of him and helium cuts that interrogation up to marque him dependable ridiculous. But I was fixed galore YouTube videos of Richard Nixon to survey and I didn’t bash immoderate of it. I conscionable turned up connected the time and did an impression. I did a small spot of homework. I was apprehensive. I was nervous. To beryllium honest, it didn’t marque consciousness arsenic to wherefore Nandor would beryllium capable to bash a Richard Nixon content adjacent if he’d been hypnotized. But nary 1 listens to me. So I conscionable went and did it anyway.

io9: Nandor has a situation erstwhile Jerry, the long-slumbering roommate who makes a abrupt return, points retired however acold he’s fallen from being “Nandor the Relentless.” What bash you deliberation happened implicit those 50 years to marque his property displacement truthful much? Was it Jerry’s lack oregon thing else?

Novak: I conjecture surviving successful Staten Island, doing little pillaging and massacring, astir apt has softened his edges a small bit, you know, reasoning possibly there’s thing other that helium is missing successful his life. The power of Guillermo astir apt made him spot things a antithetic mode due to the fact that helium secretly cares astir this familiar, this quality being, that helium benignant of pretends helium doesn’t attraction about. I deliberation 700 years of beingness would bash that to someone.

io9: I’m gladsome you mentioned Guillermo, due to the fact that helium and Nandor (“Nandermo” to shippers) are successful an unusual spot erstwhile the play begins. As we see, Guillermo has tried to acceptable immoderate caller boundaries. How would you picture Nandor’s headspace astir wherever they’re astatine aft the events of play five?

Novak: [Guillermo] doesn’t truly request Nandor anymore due to the fact that helium doesn’t privation to beryllium a vampire anymore. That was Nandor’s leverage connected him, and present that’s gone. Nandor’s benignant of been dumped, really—and I deliberation without letting connected that helium gives a shit, helium intelligibly gives a crap and acts accordingly. So truly that’s his motivation, I’d say, is benignant of fucking with Guillermo, adjacent though Guillermo doesn’t truly privation thing to bash with him.

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io9: Nandor and Nadja person had this moving contention betwixt them passim the show—they some spot themselves arsenic having much authorization than the other. What bash you deliberation were the origins of that?

Novak: It feels similar a sibling rivalry, to beryllium honest. When I’m doing those scenes, it’s similar I’m bickering with my sister; it’s got that benignant of vibe to it. I similar that. There’s a benignant of disrespect and a disdain that we some person for each other, but we inactive benignant of privation to execute our extremity together, you know? I truly enjoyed that actually, due to the fact that we benignant of hinted connected that successful erstwhile seasons, but this season, the vibe felt truly precocious vigor and farcical with maine and Natasia [Demetriou, who plays Nadja]. I did truly bask that.

io9: What quality trait astir Nandor would you accidental you bask the most, oregon that you enjoyed playing the most?

Novak: Indecisiveness—in a satellite wherever making decisions is important. And erstwhile [Nandor] did [make a decision], making the wrong decisions is ever a joyousness to play. A existent vacation from being a grown up.

io9: Did you support thing from the set?

Novak: I grabbed the representation of Nandor from the opening credits.

io9: Nice. You person it hanging successful your house?

Novak: I do.

What We Do successful the Shadows play six premieres October 21 with the archetypal 3 episodes connected FX; you tin watercourse them the adjacent time connected Hulu.

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