Even Andrew Lincoln Thinks The Strolling Lifeless Overdid Killing Glenn

The Walking Dead killed lots of people when it was on. Some deaths have been earned, some felt unfair, others have been type of humorous, however not many caught with the present’s viewers like watching Steven Yeun’s Glenn die. As within the comics, Glenn will get crushed to demise with Negan’s spiked baseball bat, and it was a reasonably large deal on the time, to some extent {that a} newspaper in Arkansas truly revealed an obituary for him days later.

Some individuals jumped off the present as soon as he obtained knocked off, and even former main man Andrew Lincoln admitted the present would possibly’ve crossed the road with Glenn. Speaking to Empire Magazine about his time on the present, he mentioned that was when the present “over-egged the omelette. [That death] could have lingered an excessive amount of.” The precise filming of the demise was additionally fairly intense, he added, notably for Negan actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Lincoln recalled Morgan doing a monologue in entrance of everybody and being “one of many [show’s] most disagreeable characters.” As the opposite actors have been certain on their knees and crying, Morgan requested him if this was regular, to which Lincoln’s Rick Grimes confirmed, “Yeah, all people simply retains going.”

There was numerous furor of Glenn’s death on the time, not helped by the truth that he’d had a fake-out death just some episodes earlier. You understand the story after that: Lincoln left the present just a few seasons later (each he and Yeun returned for the collection finale, both by archive materials or newly shot footage), and ultimately returned for the current miniseries The Ones Who Reside. Yeun, in the meantime, went on to headline initiatives like Nope, Beef, and Invincible, and was at one level going to be the Sentry within the Thunderbolts film earlier than bowing out. Nonetheless, it hasn’t been that lengthy for the reason that unique Strolling Lifeless present ended, so it’s not going anybody’s gonna be forgetting Glenn’s finish anytime quickly.

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