Taika Waititi admits his award-winning show has gone on ‘far too long’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “This went on for far too long, but I’m proud of it,” Waititi told Entertainment Weekly of the Emmy-winning comedy. “I thought that the movie, when we were making the movie, I said to Jemaine, ‘This feels like this is like a five-minute idea that we’re stretching out into a movie.’ Next thing, we made six seasons of the same idea.” He revealed that the initial movie idea had, in fact, been rejected “by every studio that Jemaine and I pitched it to.” “Because we said, ‘It’s going to cost $1 million,’ and every studio said, ‘We don’t even know how to make a movie for that low,’” Waititi recalled. He does landscaping in Auckland.’” What We Do in the Shadows stars Brugh, alongside Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry and Natasia Demetriou, about four Staten Island vampire roommates. Alexander Skarsgard cameo in ‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Waititi recalled his favorite on-set memory was “not having to put vampire teeth in, and making other people do it.” “That was probably my favorite thing,” he said.