The Strolling Lifeless killed lots of people when it was on. Some deaths had been earned, some felt unfair, others had been sort 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 overwhelmed to dying with Negan’s spiked baseball bat, and it was a fairly large deal on the time, to a degree {that a} newspaper in Arkansas truly printed an obituary for him days later.
Some folks jumped off the present as soon as he obtained knocked off, and even former main man Andrew Lincoln admitted the present may’ve crossed the road with Glenn. Speaking to Empire Journal about his time on the present, he stated that was when the present “over-egged the omelette. [That death] could have lingered an excessive amount of.” The precise filming of the dying 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 had been sure 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 dying on the time, not helped by the truth that he’d had a fake-out dying just some episodes earlier. You recognize the story after that: Lincoln left the present a number of seasons later (each he and Yeun returned for the collection finale, both by archive materials or newly shot footage), and finally returned for the latest miniseries The Ones Who Stay. Yeun, in the meantime, went on to headline tasks 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 unlikely anybody’s gonna be forgetting Glenn’s finish anytime quickly.
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