The vampire comedy series What We Do in the Shadows had a special guest show up in this week’s episode. Alexander Skarsgård seemingly reprises his role as Eric Northman from True Blood.
The episode is titled Come Out and Play and our main characters have been accused of murder by the court of New York vampires and need to get back to Staten Island.
“Northman” makes his cameo at the end of the episode where he interacts with Doug Jones’ Baron Afanas. After giving a speech Baron asks if there are any questions among the group. When someone raises their hand, they are violently silenced by Lazlo’s monster.
Skarsgård, who also had his hand raised, afraid of the consequences lowers it. Baron asks him if he has a question. “Nope. I thought I had a question, but then you answered it.” Everyone leaves including Skarsgård, and that’s it.
Skarsgård played Northman on True Blood for six seasons on HBO. Based on the The Southern Vampire Mysteries books by Charlaine Harris. What We Do in the Shadows is a satirical show that is extremely self-aware. They have featured other vampiric guest stars such as Tilda Swinton, Paul Reubens, Danny Trejo, and Wesley Snipes.
This will be the final season of What We Do in the Shadows. the show is a spin-off of the mock-doc 2014 horror-comedy feature film of the same name.