TV Talk: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ team talks season 4 plans, imagines Andy Warhol as a vampire

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When FX’s vampire comedy “What We Do in the Shadows” (10 p.m. Tuesday) returns for its fourth season, it has some resetting to do after the characters were scattered around the globe at the end of season three.

And then there’s the question of Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), an energy vampire who was destroyed and then reborn as Baby Colin Robinson.

“Baby Colin is a growing boy who grows a little bit faster than normal humans,” teased executive producer/writer Paul Simms (“NewsRadio”) in a June FX virtual press conference for the series. “Only a year has passed, and he already appears to be about a 3-year-old, but he stays pretty young through most of the season.”

Special effects work — practical effects and CGI — melds Proksch’s face to a smaller body.

“Colin is a very, very active child with way too much energy,” Simms said. “He is something of a drain on the energy of the household, but not in the way that the adult Colin Robinson was where he’ll bore you to death; but more the way (with) a 2- or 3-year-old … you find yourself exhausted at the end of the day. That’s the way Colin makes everyone feel. The question is still open as to whether he’s going to grow up and be an energy vampire.”

New plots for season four include Nandor (Kayvan Novak) deciding he will marry … someone. Anyone?

“(Nandor) asks Guillermo to be his best man, which is a huge honor for Guillermo, who already, when we joined this season, is so fed up with the situation that he has one foot out the door,” Simms said. “It’s really his love for Nandor that keeps him there to be his best man.”

Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) decides to open a nightclub in the space previously occupied by the Vampiric Council.

“It’s better than anything you could ever imagine, ever,” Demetriou said. “There (are) no limits. They are the undead, so as crazy as you want to go in a nightclub, you can go there at Nadja’s Nightclub.”

She said Studio 54 was “like a sports day on a field with, like, cups of tea,” compared to Nadja’s Nightclub.

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Simms said the nightclub is mainly for vampires, “but, also, they like to get some humans in there so that the vampires have something to drink.

“And I think you’ll see as the season progresses, like any semi-secret nightclub that would open in New York, it attracts its share of celebrities who want to come and see what the hot new scene is, and they might not realize that they are going into a vampire nightclub and are at risk of dying,” Simms continued. “I think there is even one part where The Guide and Nadja are discussing the price of the drinks, and Nadja is saying, ‘The drinks have to be very expensive because that attracts the wealthy people and the wealthy people are like veal. Like, they get massaged and eat rich foods, and their blood is just delicious.’”

When asked which vampires in established pop culture they would like to see visit the nightclub, Simms threw out the Adam Sandler-voiced vampire from “Hotel Transylvania.” Actor Harvey Guillen, who plays Guillermo, suggested Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayak in “From Dusk Till Dawn.” Matt Berry, who plays Laszlo, picked Christopher Lee, who played a vampire in multiple films. Proksch went in another direction altogether.

“Mine would be energy vampires, and we haven’t really seen them portrayed, and so I can only make a leap: I think Andy Warhol would have been a great one,” Proksch said. “I think John Waters would be a good one as kind of a Noel Coward-ish-styled energy vampire.”

Months before season four of “WWDITS” premiered, FX renewed the show for a fifth and sixth season.

“We have an end in mind,” Simms said. “It’s just a matter of figuring out when the right time to do it is. But we know we have at least two more seasons worth of stories to tell, and then we’ll figure out what happens after that.”