Andrew Lincoln reveals what it’s like to kill off cast members on The Walking Dead and it sounds miserable…
During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Walking Dead actor, Andrew Lincoln, opened up about the big moments in this season of The Walking Dead. One of the most upsetting moments for Lincoln was when he had to kill off one of his favorite actors and cast members.
During one episode, a character was introduced and killed off in a single episode and that didn’t sit well with the actor.
“Ethan was the sweetest,” said Lincoln, whose character Rick had to put a knife in the back of Ethan Embry’s character’s head. “Such a talented amazing guy, welcomed to the show, and then had to take him out again. He said, ‘No, it’s great! I watch it with my son, man! I’m thrilled you’re taking me out! And I get bit, I get the whole zombie experience.’ There was one day on set I was like, ‘What are you doing?’ It was his first day. We killed him on his first day, as we like to do. He had a big hole in his neck and I think he was smoking one of those electronic cigarettes, and I thought it was going to come out of the side of his neck. I think he was Skyping someone or doing FaceTime with someone, and he got all the zombies to do the ‘Thriller’ dance behind him. He was looking at me like, “Are you kidding me? Check this out!” He was completely like a tourist sending all these links back to his son.
“It’s that thing I say every time we kill someone off: ‘Do we really have to take this guy down?’
“He was a brilliant actor,” continued Lincoln. “It’s that thing I say every time we kill someone off: ‘Do we really have to take this guy down?’ Because he’s amazing, and also he gave voice to the rebellion that was happening in Alexandria, and did it so well, so grounded. I really bought the fact that he was a working man, but someone who wasn’t willing to concede to this maniac Rick.”
Andrew Lincoln also revealed that he accidentally punched a hole in the wall of a set right before filming one of the most intense scenes of The Walking Dead.
“I didn’t realize that the great design team had put in a false wall. I’m not going to pretend that I have superpowers that I can punch through walls. I was getting psyched for a scene and I just thought I’d hit the wall a couple times. They’re setting up this shot and Greg Nicotero’s directing. He went ‘Andy, Andy,’ and I just pushed and it went all the way through the wall. I went, ‘I’m so sorry. Is that in shot?’ They went, ‘Directly in shot.’ I felt like an idiot. I think they had to re-patch it for the actual take, but I just got a bit overexcited and got carried away with it.”
‘ I felt like an idiot. I think they had to re-patch it for the actual take, but I just got a bit overexcited and got carried away with it.”
The Walking Dead Season 6 latest news:
According to reports, Xander Berkeley would be a part of The Walking Dead season 6, but his role on the show has not been confirmed until recently. TV Line reports that Berkeley will be playing Gregory, a character from Robert Kirkman’s comics, who Rick and friends encounter at the Hilltop Colony, another safe-zone near Alexandria.
It’s worth noting that you might not like this new character but, he will bring a ton of drama, excitement and villains to the Walking Dead series.
We will also meet at least two new characters in the second half of season 6. There’s “Jesus” played by Tom Payne, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan, a very bad guy from the comics, which we will finally see towards the end of the season.
