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Ever wonder what it’s like when your personal truth crashes the party alongside a supernatural secret? Picture this: Guillermo from our favorite show not only spills he’s gay but drops the bomb that he works for—and dreams of becoming—a vampire. Talk about multitasking revelations! With today’s cosmic symphony under Scorpio’s intense gaze, peeling back layers and unmasking hidden depths feels pretty apropos. The actor behind Guillermo reveals how growing up queer and Latino shaped this emotionally charged episode—where “coming out” isn’t a lightbulb moment but more like cautiously inviting someone into your home, hoping they don’t trample all over your vulnerability. It’s raw, it’s real, and it reshapes the narrative from announcing to letting people in. Intrigued? Dive deeper into the blend of family drama, identity, and fang-tastic fantasy. LEARN MORE
In Season 4 of the show, Guillermo comes out as gay at the same time as he reveals to his family that he not only works for vampires, but wants to become one. How did your own experience growing up both queer and Latino influence how you approached that episode?
It was very therapeutic in a way. I remember when Paul [Simms], at the beginning of the season, came to me [about it]. We had a meeting before the season, so I could get into the right mindset about what the character was going to go through… We shot out of order, which meant that in one day, you could be shooting Episode 2 in the morning, and by lunchtime, you’re shooting a bit of Episode 6, and by dinner time, you’re doing a snippet from Episode 9. But, the mindset for me of playing a character who is going through emotions and levels of sexuality and work and love life…as a human, you need to know where you land every day, because you can’t tell a story unless you know how it connects. When [Paul] said [Guillermo was] coming out, I was like, “Oh, wow. Okay, so this is the season.”
So then you mentally prepare how to play the character, how to have this escalate to a crescendo. [In the episode], he defends his housemate, Nadja, and comes out to protect his family from his housemates and the people that he loves. His chosen family and his blood family, all under one roof, attacking each other — that’s what made him come out. The idea that I had a problem with was the phrasing of coming out. It doesn’t sit well with me, because when a queer person tells someone that they’re queer, it’s not like they woke up that morning and said, “You know what, I think I’m gay. I’m gonna call my mom, I’m gonna call my friends. Hey everybody, I’m gay!” It doesn’t work that way. When people come out, they’re not really coming out. The phrase I like to use is “they’re letting you in.”
When people let you in, what you do with that information can determine if they let other people in. It’s like inviting someone into a home, and you open the door and you say, “Step in. Please wipe your feet. Here’s my furniture. Here’s my couch…” When you are vulnerable enough to let someone in your home and they tornado through everything and traumatize you for even opening the door, people lock that door and never let people in. Or it might be a while before they do it again, because they’ll be peeking out the window, terrified that it’s going to happen again. And so the coming out story was very important to me, because he’s being forced to come out.
Guillermo didn’t choose to come out at that moment. He did it out of fear, because Nadja was in danger, and his mom and his family were going to kill her. He loves Nadja, but he also loves his family. He says, “Stop, I’m gay,” and that freezes everyone. It’s not even about him, he knew what he was. He just didn’t feel like he needed to share it, and here he’s forced to say it. But in a weird way, it’s a relief, because by doing so, his family just says, “Oh, we don’t care.” Nadja and his chosen family, they’re all queer. They didn’t even blink an eye. And then for his Mexican biological family to be so accepting was very nice.
I was very lucky that it resonated with the way that I came out to my family. Again, it was more like a coming out for their sake. I remember having the conversation with my mom in the kitchen. She would always try to, like, [set me up with my friend], like, “Oh, tu amiga Adriana es muy bonita. ¿No tiene novio?” And I was like, “No, she doesn’t have a boyfriend, Mom,” knowing that she was a lesbian. I was like, What are you doing? You know the old saying that Juan Gabriel quoted, “Lo que se mira, no se pregunta,” (What is seen, is not questioned). It was kind of an unspoken rule. I thought it was, like, obvious [that I saw queer], but I had to spell it out. I literally blurted it out. I was like, “Mom, you know, I’m queer, right?” She needed to hear it to have confirmation.
Coming out is never for the queer person…it’s for the comfort of someone else. Queer people know who they are, and they’ve been struggling with it, and [coming out] is just another layer of anxiety. Once you start that tour of coming out, then it’s an ongoing [thing]. Every friend you’ve ever made has to be aware. People have to post a blast on Facebook, or like they have to make an announcement. It’s funny to say coming out, but like to phrase it, “letting people in.”
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