Till death -- and beyond. In FX's What We Do in the Shadows, Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's new series spinning out of their film of the same name, stars Natasia Demetriou and Matt Berry play the franchise's first married vampire couple: Nadja and Laszlo. During a set visit attended by CBR, the cast and crew revealed what a vampire marriage looks like, how they took a "very millennial" approach to the relationship, why vampires aren't particularly sexy and more.

"Well I think, because they're vampires, anything goes," Demetriou teased. "It's actually a very modern open marriage. It's very millennial."

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"They're also sort of hundreds of years old, so they've pretty much done everything," Berry pitched in. "Not only to each other, but to every other kind of living thing. Within reason."

Nadja and Laszlo may have an nontraditional marriage, but their connection is a bedrock for their characters. "I've worked with Jemaine [Clement] now for a number of years and... he is a man who is interested in fashion and clothes and character, so all of that detail is very, very particular to him," costume designer Amanda Neale explained. "His biggest focus has been he wants Nadja and Laszlo to mimic one another."

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"My thing was, with their relationship, it's not about competition. It's that mutual respect and also too getting those comedic bits in, so we haven't played a lot with it," she continued. "I mean some of it, sometimes, is ridiculous… It is one of respect and support and also too that's why they mimic one another."

"Laszlo, in my mind, doesn't compete with Natasha [Nadja] because she's the matriarch in the environment. She's not the oldest vampire, but she holds the fletch together and these men together. She has a lot of power… and not even overt sexuality," she added. "She's just very strong and that's what I like about her and that's also been my focus in creating a solid female character that's not overtly sexual but has strength, and so Laszlo sits and... and he mimics her dress but he doesn't compete."

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Despite this mutual respect, there may be trouble in paradise. "Since Laszlo and Nadja are a couple and a married couple, in some stories we're trying to work out -- oh, it's in the pilot -- where Nadja is interested in that other guy," executive producer Paul Simms teased. "There's a semi-unrequited vampire-human romantic relationship. I don't want to give any spoilers, but yes, vampire-human relationships are possible without turning the person into a vampire... Jemaine was always like, [Laszlo] would be upset about that because it's an emotional interest, but otherwise, they are pansexual, all genders and no jealousy."

"I think that ties back into the idea that they've been alive for a long time and that they're bored," writer Stefanie Robinson said with a laugh. "That's a big part of it, is that when you're alive for thousands of years you sort of become more fluid and open, I think is the reasoning."

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"It's like you go through phases," Waititi explained. "So after a few hundred years, the phases become really distorted and there will be the phase of 'I just want to kill this person.' It's almost like, you know, if you've been in a long relationship, there will be like an hour where you feel like that. I think, with vampires, everything sort of stretches out. 'You remember those 10 years when we weren't talking?' But then the makeup sex is probably way longer and better. It's probably a good couple of months as long as it's a light-proof room."

"It's kind of fun because we had such a different way than you would write on any other show with these characters that will just have sex with each other or other people or anything all the time with no guilt or shame and sometimes seemingly without even much pleasure just because they're just trying to find something that will make them feel alive or good," Simms mused.

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"These characters are pretty sexual as well," Clement said. "There's one episode where they're organizing a vampire orgy."

However, that doesn't mean Clement or Waititi find vampires to be particularly sexy. "This might be a controversial statement, but I look at being a vampire in all those films and I think they're pretty ridiculous and not that sexy at all," Waititi explained.

"Well, the first thing you think about is that they'd all be cold, and even if your partner touches you and their hands are cold, it's like, 'Ugh! Get away! Stop it! Go run your hands under the water,'" Clement added.


Arriving Wednesday, March 27 at 10 pm ET/PT on FX, What We Do in the Shadows stars Kayvan Novak, Natasia Demetriou, Matt Berry, Harvey Guillen and Doug Jones. Taika Waititi will direct the series and co-produce alongside Jemaine Clement, Scott Rudin, Paul Simms and Garrett Basch.