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How the ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Production Team Constructed a Mansion From Scratch

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By Karen M. Peterson Last year, production designer Kate Bunch outfitted a Staten Island mansion for the Eastern European vampires who inhabit the TV mockumentary adaptation of 2014 comedy-horror film “What We Do in the Shadows.” For the FX on Hulu series’ second collection of shows, though, the job got a lot tougher.

The new season required 20 to 30 new sets and a crew of around 100 people — partly due to an unexpected twist. “We lost our exterior mansion location from Season 1,” Bunch explains, when the owners sold it for use as a women’s shelter.

After all the time spent finding the original mansion, discovering a match around Toronto, where the series shoots, proved virtually impossible.

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