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EW cover: First look at season 6 of ‘The

Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus lightened the atmosphere on a recent Entertainment Weekly cover shoot by groping each other’s bums, while a smiling Melissa McBride looked on.

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Romero asked if they could shoot the actors from behind, with McBride facing the camera.

Reedus appears on the cover with Lincoln and co-star Melissa McBride, but photographer Dan Winter also shot the trio from behind, where we see Reedus and Lincoln grabbing each other’s asses.

Warning: The following contains possible spoilers for “The Walking Dead”. Photo editor Michele Romero then convinced the guys to give fans of The Walking Dead a very special behind-the-scenes look at what was going on.

“After a little investigating, we realized Reedus had been trying to hold Lincoln’s hand in the photos behind McBride’s back”, she explains. Andrew Lincoln stated that the theme of next season is “them and us“.

And as Norman Reedus previously told Nerdist earlier this month, this time play makes the upcoming season “particularly complicated”. However, everyone’s favorite butt-loving Bob’s Burger character would enjoy Entertainment Weekly’s The Walking Dead promo pic more if the magazine photographed two zombies recreating Rick Grimes and Daryl Dixon’s cheeky pose.

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The Walking Dead” season 6 premieres on Sunday, October 11 at 9 p.m. on AMC with a supersized 90-minute episode. Do you think Rickyl will live on, or will the BFFs grow apart in Alexandria?

Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon