Harvey Guillén on Guillermo Saying 'I'm Gay,' Protecting Chosen Family
Some spoilers if you have not seen the latest episode of What We Do in the Shadows. “You want to be a vampire?” What We Do in the Shadows’ Guillermo’s cousin exclaims when the beloved vampire-killing familiar unleashes a stream of truth bombs to distract his family (with Van Helsing blood in their veins) from offing his housemate Nadja.
The cousin being most incredulous at Guillermo’s longing to become a vampire is rendered more poignant by the fact the longtime familiar of Nandor the Relentless has also just explained, “[Nadja] is not my girlfriend, because I’m gay.”For fans of the Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement mockumentary, now in its fourth season on FX, it’s no shock that Guillermo is gay in a show where his relationship with his master has been steeped in deep affection and a bit of homoeroticism from the outset.
The show centers vampires who engage in pansexual orgies on the regular and who are shrouded in cloaks of otherness by virtue of their being, well, other than alive.
Guillermo’s revelation is no surprise to his cousin, mother, aunts, and grandmother either. “We don’t give a shit about you being gay.
