The Lesser Dead - The Lesser Dead - Bonus Episode - Vampire Kids!

Episode Date: August 1, 2023

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Lesser Dead, featuring the team of directors, producers, and writers who helped create the series. In this episode, we focus on the show’s adorably creepy vampire children.

And now, for a behind the scenes look at the making of the lesser dead, featuring the team of directors, producers, and writers who helped create the series. So, what's up with those vampire kids? There's nothing weirder that a little kid vampire because suddenly they have all this strange power that they don't know what to do with. Executive producer Mark Stern. And yet to have them be dangerous is something that we don't know what to do with because they're not supposed to be dangerous or supposed to be protected.

Our instinct is to protect them. That's Josh Mauer, executive producer of The Lesser Dead. Just like Joey and Margaret and Gebetko, anytime in the horror genre you talk about children as a victim, it repels us because our job is to protect children at all costs, right? Children are innocent. Both the literature and film and in life. We see a very tender side of Margaret when she first meets the kids. I am Margaret with Manus, one of Candy Wicklow, later Brooklyn, now of Manhattan. You can see that I'm working my way down.

Now tell us your name like a good girl. And it brings out a side of her that we have not seen that Joey certainly says he's never seen or hasn't seen in quite a while. And it is humanizing for all of them because now they need to take care of these unruly kids. So these vampires have their own moral code. What is their red line? Do not harm children.

Can you tell me who did this to you? Go on. It's okay. Do not harm children. Having little kid characters at the center of their drama put an added burden on the creative This fine gentleman, I would like it very much. Having little kid characters at the center of their drama put an added burden on the creative team, finding the right actors to play them. There is an authenticity to having kids play kids and I think it does bring a certain truth to their performance. Hey, how was Star Wars? It was amazing! So there's this one part where the Millennium Falcon is flying. What is that? I'm never.

Nice to meet you. Look what it's like, co-bought us. They had an acting coach in the booth with them in London while we were recording in Los Angeles. And I mean, I just think they nailed it. They're so, the three of them are just such great, little professional actors. I know best.