In What We Do in The Shadows (2014), the retirement home where Viago finds Katherine is a real retirement home. Katherine was also played by one of the residents, Ethel Robinson. She was “thrilled” to be in the movie. Jermaine Clement even put fangs in her dentures.

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image showing In What We Do in The Shadows (2014), the retirement home where Viago finds Katherine is a real retirement home. Katherine was also played by one of the residents, Ethel Robinson. She was “thrilled” to be in the movie. Jermaine Clement even put fangs in her dentures.

Tokyono on October 21st, 2020 at 17:04 UTC »

Source:https://filmschoolrejects.com/32-things-we-learned-from-the-what-we-do-in-the-shadows-commentary-1a3a4a339681/

edit: she also kept her role a secret from her fellows retirees!

A well-preserved resident of Rita Angus Retirement Village in Kilbirnie, Wellington, has made her debut in Taika Waititi's vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows - at the age of 98.

Though some of the filming took place at night at Rita Angus, Ethel Robinson has managed to keep her involvement a secret from fellow residents for the past two years. Her role will remain under wraps until the Wellington premiere tonight.

She's also from the same area of New Zealand as Waititi is!

In a serendipitous twist of fate, it turned out she and Waititi came from the same area in the East Cape. "It was nice to see somebody from up there," she said.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/10168413/Sinking-her-teeth-into-first-role-at-98

ChasingPesmerga on October 21st, 2020 at 17:45 UTC »

Ugh, but why? Katherine's just too young for him, oh my god the age gap

NotTheBelt on October 21st, 2020 at 17:49 UTC »

Great movie, and the TV show is fantastic! If you haven’t checked it out, I can’t recommend it enough. Same humour and tons of cameos (Mark Hamill, Tilda Swinton, Haley Joel Osmond). Small spoiler, but my favourite scene is when the vampires battle the werewolves on a rooftop. The werewolves champion is this massive beast and Nandor has to choose a weapon to fight the werewolf with, so he selects a chew toy and throws it off the roof, which the werewolf dives for immediately. Also loves me some Guillermo and Nandor banter.