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  • “The Walking Dead”: Melissa McBride Couldn’t Speak After Reading Finale Script

    The Walking Dead has managed to keep the attention of its army of loyal fans for the better part of a decade now, and anticipation for the season 6 finale is growing by the hour as rumors float around online that the infamous Negan will make his first appearance in the last episode.

    Now that the final hour is growing near, more and more of the show’s stars are speaking up about their reaction to reading the script, including Melissa McBride, who plays Carol. While there are many, many fan theories as to who might not make it to see season 7, it certainly doesn’t soften the blow to hear that McBride had such a hard time after finding out the fate of her castmates.

    “It was so very dark. I couldn’t say anything after I had finished reading it. I felt like I had dropped into a black hole,” Melissa said.

    Theories have ranged dramatically from Daryl to Glenn to Maggie being the characters to get killed off, and all for their own good reasons. But because the show veers pretty hard from the comic book story lines, it’s difficult to tell just what Negan will bring with him…and who will pay the price. Lauren Cohan, who plays Maggie, has been fanning the flames after she got a dramatic haircut, leading fans to wonder if she cut it off because she left the show.

    how did I ever pick.

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    Playing this season’s Big Bad is none other than Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who actually looks like the character of Negan as he’s drawn in the books. Besides that, says showrunner Scott Gimple, he tapped right into Negan’s energy from the start.

    “It isn’t just that, physically, he resembles him. Jeffrey’s enthusiasm mirrors the character’s enthusiasm. Negan is an extremely enthusiastic character; he’s not subtle. There really aren’t a lot of half measures. He’s a bull in a china shop, and the china shop is the world. And he’s not very concerned about what he breaks. I saw Jeffrey’s smile and I said, ‘Oh, that’s Negan’s smile,’” Gimple told Nerdist.

  • Melissa McBride On “The Walking Dead” And A Difficult Decision

    Melissa McBride, who plays Carol on AMC’s hit zombiepocalypse show “The Walking Dead”, spoke recently about the decision her character had to make in a heartbreaking episode that aired on Sunday.

    It’s far from the first gut-wrenching tale the show has brought us; it’s not even the first horrific thing Carol’s been through. But what made this episode different was that the survivors weren’t fighting the enemy, but rather amongst themselves.

    WARNING: If you haven’t seen the episode yet, don’t read any further. Seriously. Spoilers live here.

    After young Lizzie killed her own sister in order to prove that she could come back from the dead and not be like the other “walkers”, Carol made the decision to shoot her in order to protect the others in the group, especially baby Judith. Lizzie, who was like a daughter to Carol, took a bullet to the head for the good of the group, but the decision wasn’t made lightly, and of course the entire storyline reminds us that Carol has already lost one daughter.

    “He (showrunner Scott Gimple) said that Carol would be required to do something very difficult and I was thinking, oh dear, maybe there’s a scuffle between her and Tyreese. I had no idea. And then when I did read the episode and was going along and seeing how messed up Lizzie was…to answer your question, it was just devastating and heartbreaking. Period,” McBride said.

    While many fans thought the show had gone too far, McBride says she thinks it was a story that needed to be told, and that the tale was pulled from Robert Kirkman’s original material in a good way.

    “It’s an element that had not been examined yet really from the perspective of our group — just the mental fragility and mindset and different perspectives of children. This is something that really needs to be explored in this world. And Carol’s arc has dealt so much with children that this group was the best one for this story to be told. It just had to be told,” she said.

    One of the hardest things about the episode, McBride says, was filming that scene and keeping herself a little detached from it, emotionally.

    “It just was the most horrifying thing to even play that out — physically play that out, me playing her, playing the character. It was so uncomfortable, so horrifying. I couldn’t wait for that scene to be over. I can detach quite a bit from what’s going on when I’m shooting some stuff with Carol. I can detach from what’s going on. I was really happy to detach from that a bit more and less conscious of playing this scene out. I think it was just very honest. Melissa was a little bit more out of the way than usual because I was uncomfortable to be there. Let’s just give it all over to Carol there for a minute,” she said.

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  • Walking Dead’s McBride Speaks About Plot Twists

    Fans of The Walking Dead witnessed some unforeseeable plot twists during a recent episode where Carol was forced into making some difficult decisions that put into question the very definition of humanity. Melissa McBride, who portrays the tough, but well-liked character, spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the shocking events that unfolded.

    [Spoiler Alert] Carol recently confessed to killing Tyreese’s girlfriend. McBride explained the anticipation and inner turmoil that led to the revelation.

    “They’ve been through so much. I loved that scene, how quiet it was finally. Just the two of them with little Judith over in her crib. It was exhausting, it was an exhausting time. Unbelievable what the two had just been through. Unbelievable to them. And all the stuff going through Carol’s mind, there was a great deal of “I have to tell him, I have to tell him now.” For one, if we’re going to keep going together, there needs to be trust. Even more important than that, he needs to know what happened because Carol remembers not knowing what happened to Sophia. And she says, “That was the worst part. The worst part is not knowing.” And she can only imagine what was going on in Tyreese’s mind, imagining what might have gone down with Karen, and how it happened, and who did it eating away with him,” McBride said.

    McBride addressed the unique situation characters of the popular television show face where the level of daily horror is that typically relegated to nightmares.

    “And with that going on in his mind she knows they can’t keep moving if he’s continuously thinking about what may have happened. That needs to be done. She also needs to hand him the truth because even in her own mind, it’s like I need somebody to tell me I am doing okay here. I have done horrible, horrible things, and I need him to tell me it’s okay in some way. To at least know that he accepts what needs to be done, or let me go,” McBride said.

    Carol is no stranger to gut-wrenching killings and intense drama.

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  • The Walking Dead: Carol’s Devastating Decision

    [SPOILER ALERT]

    Many fans of the hit AMC series The Walking Dead have been barking that the second half of Season Four has been a bit slow. The group was torn apart after the fall of the prison and each subsequent episode has focused on a different band of survivors and their fight to figure out what they should do next in the days of the Zombie Apocalypse. However, after last night’s episode, The Grove, fans of the show are lighting up social media in total disbelief.

    Yes, the show went there.

    Like so many devastating episodes of The Walking Dead, there were moments when things were looking up. Carol, Tyrese, little Lizzie, her sister Mika, and baby Judith stumbled upon a Pecan Grove. There was plenty of water to drink from the well, there was food to eat, and they even had a working gas stove. Tyrese and Carol thought they were safe and made the decision not to trek out to the unknown of The Termimus. They figured they could stay at the grove, plant some food, and make a life that wasn’t filled with fear.

    Then, Lizzie took a turn. Yes, in hindsight we should have known that something was coming. The girl was off. She didn’t get that the zombies were not play toys but killers who were no longer human. She herself almost offered her hand to the zombie on the tracks because the idea of turning into one didn’t seem that bad to the disillusioned little girl.

    But the nightmarish horror that occurred at the end of the episode, even the most perverse mind couldn’t have seen coming. Tyrese and Carol had a nice talk while getting water out in the grove. Yes, they would stay there, raise the kids, trust each other, feel safe. However, when they returned to the house to find Lizzie’s hands covered in blood and poor sweet Mika stabbed to death lying on the ground, that life disappeared. But what was worse was that Lizzie didn’t get it. She didn’t understand what she’d done. She thought that Mika would turn into a zombie and become her friend. She told Tyrese and Carol that Mika would come back, that she didn’t hurt her head.

    There would be no happy ending. There would be no more nights shelling pecans and toasting them in the oven while safely tucked away in a house that used to be a home. Carol ominously tells Tyrese, “We can’t sleep with her and Judith under the same roof.”

    Instinctively, Carol knew what had to be done.

    If anyone ever says to you when you have your back turned “look at the flowers,” you should run. In a twisted spin on Of Mice and Men, Carol shoots young Lizzie. It is brutally devastating, shocking, numbing, nightmarish and jaw dropping. But there was no other way. Carol has proven time and time again that humanity and conscience must be swept aside in order to survive. Anyone without that instinct gets devoured.

    Melissa McBride, who plays Carol, sat for an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. She talked about the necessity of Lizzie’s execution. “It was something that had to be done in that world and under those circumstances; Lizzie in that world seemed inevitable. It would be impossible for Tyreese and Carol to move forward with Judith, who doesn’t have any experience of the world before the apocalypse. It was so devastating for Carol to have to do that.”

    It can’t be argued that one of the reasons why The Walking Dead is so popular is because it doesn’t follow a set of narrative rules. It’s not a story about zombies. It’s a story about how people change when there are only two options: die or survive. It’s messy, ugly, and gut-wrenching. In many episodes, spectator expectations get shattered. If you try and take a breath, if you think you know how things are going to turn out…you don’t. The Grove proved that last night. It was a warning to viewers not to become too comfortable. There’s more danger to come, no one is safe.

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