The 50-year-old actor stars as the villainous Negan in the hit USA zombie drama, and used his barbed wire covered baseball bat, nicknamed Lucille, to claim the lives of Steven Yeun’s Glenn and Michael Cudlitz’s Abraham in the first episode of the new series of the programme.
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And they were blown away.
“I think Glenn was fighting to find words and “Maggie, I’ll find you” was a callback to another experience and another time when he really was trying to find her”, he said.
The Walking Dead returns next Sunday, October 30, at 9 p.m.
The Walking Dead killed a pair of beloved characters in last night’s season premiere. As someone who has read the comics, I could sit here and tell you how the two compare, but there are some things that just work better when seen.
The AMC series had been repeatedly hunting that Glenn will die in the season 7 of the Walking Dead. While we feel bad for Yeun and his bank account, killing Glenn is as close as the show can come to ripping out the viewer’s heart while the show can continue to function.
“The Walking Dead” aired its hotly anticipated and much hyped episode yet on Sunday, finally giving millions of fans the reveal they have been looking forward to for the last six months.
But most fans chose to vent.
The 50-year-old’s character Negan bludgeoned long-running character Glenn Rhea to death with his baseball bat, which he charmingly calls Lucille, and nearly had Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes chop off his own son’s arm with an axe.
However, while evil Negan killed Abraham in relatively short order, he left poor Glenn alive for several minutes…
In the comic book series, Maggie is devastated over Glenn’s death and decides to leave Alexandria.
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“Programmes with violent content are proven to be harmful, especially to children; and most parents agree that having greater control over violent content coming into their homes is vital to protecting their family”, he said.
