Unlike Payton, Josh McDermitt didn't think he was getting a call that he may be killed off. "I was at home and Scott Gimple and Angela Kang called me and gave me a heads up and I was bummed and they were bummed," McDermitt, who has played Eugene since season four, told Insider over a Zoom call in August. Josh McDermitt plays Eugene on "TWD." Currently, he's unsure about his decision to lead his friends to the mysterious Commonwealth. Who knows what's going to happen? So, mixed feelings." Ridloff added, "But, of course, I'm sad about the fact that it's ending. I think it's a big part of pop culture and you see so many references to 'The Walking Dead' and it really truly has been an influence globally and I'm proud of that and I'm grateful that this show happened." "I'm so thrilled to be part of a beautiful story. "I honestly had mixed feelings," Ridloff said of the show's end and not her character's end.
They were just calling to tell her about the final season.īefore her return on season 11, episode six, Ridloff was away from "TWD" for a bit filming Marvel's upcoming superhero film, "Eternals." Since then, the pandemic hit and then the show's final season was unexpectedly announced. So are they calling me to tell me, you know, this might be the end of Connie?" "This was done through Zoom so we're all sitting there having small talk, whereas inside I was sweating, I was dying," Ridloff said. "I actually was at my beach house when I got the call from Angela and from Scott Gimple," Ridloff told Insider. Lauren Ridloff has played Connie on "TWD" since season nine. "I'm kind of putting off the sadness and the tears and trying to remain kind of a student of the moment and enjoy the story that we're telling here now," Payton said. In April, Kang told Insider season 11 would likely film through March 2022. "We've still got most of our season left to shoot."
"Normally we would be starting to edge toward the end of our season at about this time of the year and we are nowhere near the end of the season," Payton added. "To have kind of a super-sized season made it a little less bitter, because we knew that we were going to be here for a while." "Having to wait an entire year to even get started was kind of crazy," Payton said. Last fall, AMC announced the final season will have an extended 24 episodes in addition to adding six bonus episodes to season 10.Īt the time, Kang told Insider the 30 final episodes would more or less play as two final seasons of the show. The pandemic threw off the shooting schedule for the series, which, in theory, should have premiered its 11th season last fall. "I just didn't realize that it would be of the show itself, which was shocking." I was sure that there was a demise of some kind coming," Payton continued. "Both of them needing to be on the phone to talk to me about something. "I remember I was getting a call from both Angela Kang and Scott Gimple, and half the time when you're getting a phone call from just one of your two showrunners, it's about the demise of your character," Payton, who has played Ezekiel since season seven, told Insider over the phone in August. Khary Payton said he's "putting off the sadness and the tears" for now since they'll still be shooting "TWD" for awhile.
"I was more thinking like, 'How does it end? Do we all die in slow motion? Do we find a cure? Do they just nuke us from space? Like what happens?'" Reedus said of wondering how they'll wrap up the series. Reedus said he immediately had a bunch of questions after learning the news. "I think I immediately called Melissa ," Reedus said. Reedus said he was instructed to not tell anyone else that the show was ending.
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Since the show's main star Andrew Lincoln departed the series in late 2018, Reedus has become one of the show's primary leads. Reedus has played Daryl Dixon, an original character separate from "TWD" comics, since the show's first season. And this is happening.' And I was like, 'What did everybody else say?' They said, 'We haven't called anybody else yet." "And they're like, 'Oh yeah, this is happening. "I was like, 'What are you talking about?'" Reedus continued. "I was sitting in the backyard under an orange tree sitting in the dirt with my daughter, peeling an orange and got the call," Reedus recently told Insider over Zoom of where he was when he learned "TWD" was ending. Reedus told Insider he was peeling an orange with his daughter when he found out "TWD" was ending. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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