Even Andrew Lincoln Thinks The Strolling Lifeless Overdid Killing Glenn

The Strolling Lifeless killed lots of people when it was on. Some deaths have been earned, some felt unfair, others have been form 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 acquired 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] might have lingered an excessive amount of.” The precise filming of the demise was additionally fairly intense, he added, significantly 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 loads of furor of Glenn’s demise on the time, not helped by the truth that he’d had a fake-out demise only a few episodes earlier. You understand the story after that: Lincoln left the present a number of seasons later (each he and Yeun returned for the sequence finale, both by way of archive materials or newly shot footage), and ultimately returned for the current miniseries The Ones Who Stay. 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 because the authentic Strolling Lifeless present ended, so it’s not going anybody’s gonna be forgetting Glenn’s finish anytime quickly.

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