What We Do in the Shadows keeps giving Guillermo (and Harvey Guillén) some of the best fight scenes on TV
When you think great action on TV, it’d be understandable if your mind first drifts to martial arts dramas like Warrior and Cobra Kai, or a crime thriller like Reacher. What We Do in the Shadows has a counterpoint: Harvey Guillén’s Guillermo de la Cruz.
What We Do in the Shadowscontinues to deliver exhilarating fight sequences for everyone’s favorite familiar, the latest of which was a major part of the fourth episode of the fourth season, titled “The Night Market.”
In the episode, the gang visits a secret supernatural marketplace to help Nadja’s union-busting efforts at her new vampire nightclub. However, Nandor (Kayvan Novak) and Guillermo end up at a Night Market fight club that pits familiars against each other. Naturally, Nandor volunteers Guillermo to fight, and naturally, Guillermo easily dispatches the other familiars (but without hurting them, to the unruly crowd’s great dismay). The crowd decides to up the stakes by having Guillermo fight a vampire, eventually leading to a face-off between Guillermo and his beloved master, Nandor.
The scene takes place on multiple vertical levels, starting in a parking lot flanked by hundreds of onlookers before moving up to an elevated walkway for close-quarters combat. Guillermo flicks out his cape like an old Western duelist, shows off extensive weapons work (using a stick and a sword with an improvised trash can lid shield), and even does a backflip off of a truck. It is equally a great display of Guillén’s ability to execute complicated fight choreography (he does almost all of his own work in the sequence) and his charismatic screen presence, goading on the crowd (and Nandor) as he puts on a show.
Guillén said the sequence took four days to shoot in a factory in Toronto,
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