The Walking Dead killed a batch of radical erstwhile it was on. Some deaths were earned, immoderate felt unfair, others were benignant of funny, but not galore stuck with the show’s assemblage similar watching Steven Yeun’s Glenn die. As successful the comics, Glenn gets beaten to decease with Negan’s spiked shot bat, and it was a beauteous large woody astatine the time, to a constituent that a newspaper successful Arkansas really published an obituary for him days later.
Some radical jumped disconnected the amusement erstwhile helium got knocked off, and adjacent erstwhile starring antheral Andrew Lincoln admitted the amusement might’ve crossed the enactment with Glenn. Talking to Empire Magazine astir his clip connected the show, helium said that was erstwhile the amusement “over-egged the omelette. [That death] whitethorn person lingered excessively much.” The existent filming of the decease was besides beauteous intense, helium added, peculiarly for Negan histrion Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Lincoln recalled Morgan doing a monologue successful beforehand of everyone and being “one of the [show’s] astir unpleasant characters.” As the different actors were bound connected their knees and crying, Morgan asked him if this was normal, to which Lincoln’s Rick Grimes confirmed, “Yeah, everybody conscionable keeps going.”
There was a batch of furor of Glenn’s death astatine the time, not helped by the information that he’d had a fake-out death conscionable a fewer episodes earlier. You cognize the communicative aft that: Lincoln near the amusement a fewer seasons aboriginal (both helium and Yeun returned for the bid finale, either done archive worldly oregon recently changeable footage), and yet returned for the caller miniseries The Ones Who Live. Yeun, meanwhile, went connected to header projects like Nope, Beef, and Invincible, and was astatine 1 constituent going to beryllium the Sentry successful the Thunderbolts movie earlier bowing out. Still, it hasn’t been that agelong since the archetypal Walking Dead show ended, truthful it’s not apt anyone’s gonna beryllium forgetting Glenn’s extremity anytime soon.
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