How the ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Production Team Constructed a Mansion From Scratch

The new season required 20 to 30 new sets and a crew of around 100 people — partly due to an unexpected twist. “We lost our exterior mansion location from Season 1,” Bunch explains, when the owners sold it for use as a women’s shelter.After all the time spent finding the original mansion, discovering a match around Toronto, where the series shoots, proved virtually impossible. Instead, Bunch proposed a different solution.

While the carpenters were hard at work re-creating the exterior of the vampires’ mansion, Bunch and her team set out to design new parts of the house. There are rooms for gathering groups away from the living room, and Guillermo , the familiar of the vampire Nandor , spends a lot of time in a previously unseen upstairs bathroom. Bunch says that the room for the vampire couple Nadja and Laszlo is supposed to be on the second floor in the story, but the new structure had no second floor.

The second season gives the audience a chance to meet the neighbors, Shaun and Charmaine . “They live next door to this huge mansion,” Bunch says, “but they’re just kind of average Staten Island people. We needed to find a house that could kind of hide the fact that our mansion’s not next door.”Inside, the basement hosts an amusing collection of tchotchkes, including a collection of “Ocean’s Twelve” bric-a-brac that features a Scott Caan bobblehead. “The memorabilia stuff was fun,” she notes.

Season 2 also introduces witches, ghosts and one of Bunch’s favorite sets, a necromancer’s hut. “The necromancer we built fully onstage, which was so awesome,” Bunch says. “We built a thatched roof. We had a pit in that stage, so we were able to build an actual staircase down into that pit, which was fun to be able to use.” The hut allowed her team to play with textures and natural materials.“I think it turned out beautifully,” Bunch says.

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