Interview With the Vampire Writer's Room's Twitter Thread

Vodka and cigarettes might have made you friends in 1941 Romania, but we have something far more valuable. Before we can peek behind the velvet curtain of the Theatre des Vampires, we must first join Louis and Claudia as they cruise the Mediterranean War Theatre. #IWTV

Starting strong with what we know you want the most… photos of Jacob. Here’s @jacobanderson’s first visit to Barrandov Studios, where we filmed most of the season. Our brilliant Production Designer Mara is showing them the reconstruction of the Dubai penthouse, which was packed

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@jacobanderson @AdamOByrneStuff @LepereMara Most of our WWII field scenes were filmed at Areál Tankodrom Milovice, a “military adrenalin park” with a tank training area, military bases, shooting ranges, and equipment to ride in. https://www.tankodrommilovice....

Design boards for the WWII fields and Nazi checkpoints (as well as the truck at the end of 201, but more on that later…)

The incredible @carol_cutshall once again designed our costumes. Here are some of the soldier’s looks and their inspirations.

Our dedicated soldiers, aka extras. Extras hair and makeup overseen by Jana Malkoska.

Videos from the front lines:

Craig Zisk, who directed episodes 201 and 205, is a great friend and collaborator to our showrunner Rolin Jones. They met on @SHO_weeds where they both worked for several seasons. Craig directed Rolin’s AMC pilot KNIFEMAN (featuring producer @AdamOByrneStuff acting.) He is a

This was Delainey’s first day shooting. She spent several hours rolling in mud in late winter in the Czech countryside. We worried about her until she entered the tent and announced that everything was “wicked!”

The first image is the inspiration and blueprint for the Romanian factory where Louis and Claudia meet Emilia and Morgan. This season, one of our heaven-sent locations was the Old Wastewater Treatment Plant (https://staracistirna.cz/). You’ll see it mentioned throughout these

The fantastic actress Stephanie Hayes played Emilia in this episode. Stephanie, like showrunner Rolin Jones and producer Adam O’Byrne, is a graduate of the Yale Drama School. She is an accomplished theatremaker and filmmaker in her native Sweden. https://www.stephanielouisehay... Here are

Designs for the Romanian Manor and Romanian Castle (and a bit of the Dubai bedroom, which we’ll discuss more of in a later thread).

The ruined castle Louis and Claudia find in their hunt for old-world vampires and the manor where Daciana throws herself into the fire are Točník Castle in the Czech Republic. Točník Castle was built during the reign of Wenceslas IV, on top of the already existing Žebrák Castle

Romanian Manor Part 1

Romanian Manor Part 2

Up close and personal with a dead Romanian vampire feat the legendary Tami Lane (left), who has handled MUFX for the first two seasons and is simply one of the best in the business. She worked on Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Kings, all 3 Hobbit movies, and The Chronicles

Makeup tests for 201 Louis. We had an incredible hair and makeup team for this episode of Adele Di Trani, Daniele Nastasi, Elena Fabbiani, Marica Falso, Louis Kiss, Polly McKay, Rene Stejskal, and Attila Vegh.

The truck scene from the end of 201 used a common filming technique called the Poor Man’s Process or PMP. http://FilmTerms.com defines it as, “A way of creating the illusion of movement for an interior scene in a car or other vehicle by shaking it up and down and flashing

There's nobody in there!

Though most of the season has Prague acting as Paris, we did get to film for one week in Paris at the end of the shoot. The final 201 shot of Louis and Claudia holding hands was filmed in front of the Pantheon in November, right before we wrapped.

In the off chance that anyone didn’t see these when they were posted months ago, we’re going to link to some of our cast and crew’s BTS posts, starting with this is Jacob’s 201 photo dump… https://www.instagram.com/p/C7...

Oh, and this… https://www.instagram.com/reel...

Cool time-lapse of the Revenant Vampire makeup application by Polly Mckay and Tami Lane https://www.instagram.com/reel...

A Revenant photo dump from the Revenant himself, Dirk Rogers https://www.instagram.com/p/C6...

And a final Revevant Photo from Delainey’s Instagram takeover on the AMC page