We’re not even 1 / 4 of the best way into the 2025 TV schedule, but it feels prefer it’s been years for the reason that conclusion of FX’s What We Do In The Shadows, which solely led to 2024. Top-of-the-line vampire TV reveals ever made, it delivered killer jokes and enjoyable cameos throughout its six-season run. On that latter observe, Harvey Guillén and Kayvan Novak (who performed Guillermo de la Cruz and Nandor the Relentless, respectively) simply revealed that two main stars almost appeared on the present, and I am shook serious about what might’ve been.
At this yr’s Dublin Comedian Con, Geek Eire hosted the 2 WWDITS alums, who talked about varied subjects, together with that surprisingly satisfying sequence finale. What actually caught my consideration, although, was there tackle the present’s string of A+ cameos. Guillén shared that they’d a good time working with actors like Haley Joel Osment and Mark Hamill. What has me reeling, although, are two large names Guillén name-dropped when it got here to vampire performers, and Kayvan Novak attested to them. Spoiler alert: they headlined one of the crucial memorable supernatural movies of the ’90s:
Like, for the vampires, we have been gonna get, like, different [famous] vampires. Brad Pitt was supposed to hitch, [as was] Tom Cruise. These have been people who we have been like, “Whoa, we’re gonna get them?’ ‘Yeah if it really works out.’
I imply, come on! How good wouldn’t it have been for the present to land Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise? And had Pitt and Cruise really reprise their roles as Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt, respectively, from Interview with the Vampire, it might’ve been even higher. Given simply what number of blood-suckers appeared on FX’s supernatural comedy, it might’ve made sense for them to be introduced in, too.
Positive, on the floor, the notion of the 2 A-listers showing on What We Do In The Shadows might sound like a joke, however that is what the present does finest. It surprises and subverts expectations however does so in a approach that feels proper. I might completely see Louis and Lestat mixing it up with Laszlo, Nadja and Colin Robinson, and I am getting FOMO simply serious about it. Now, I can not assist however surprise how the 2 stars would’ve been utilized.
In fact, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt weren’t the one stars who weren’t capable of seem on WWDITS throughout its run. Harvey Guillén additionally talked about that, generally, there have been loads of cases by which visitor actors weren’t capable of commit:
There have been visitor stars that have been virtually visitor stars that, after the primary season, we had so many individuals who wished to hitch and are available play with us, who we actually virtually had, however [due to] scheduling conflicts, that did not work out.
I’m not shocked to listen to that so many celebs wished in on the vampiric comedy. I’m certain we might’ve seen lots extra if the present had run longer in opposition to EP Taika Waititi’s needs. I can not argue with the completed product, although as a result of, just like the film on which it is primarily based, What We Do within the Shadows stands as one in every of Waititi’s finest items of labor.
However, I am undecided I will ever recover from the truth that Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt almost appeared on the present. We’ll seemingly by no means know what precisely was deliberate for them had they popped up. Nevertheless, I suppose that is what fan fiction is for.
Do your self a favor, and stream all six seasons of What We Do within the Shadows now utilizing a Hulu subscription. The Interview with a Vampire stars is probably not a part of it, however there are nonetheless greater than sufficient visitor stars to maintain viewers entertained.