Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are hitting new heights on the Maggie and Negan spin-off.
“HOLY S—!”
one of them yells, morsels of eggs and salsa spilling out of his mouth.
Lauren Cohan in ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.Peter Kramer/AMC
And then… laughter.
These are not the first crew members to be panic-stricken by a stray rat today.
And they will not be the last.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan in ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.Peter Kramer/AMC
Chuckles one on-looker at their terror, “You know, wedowork on a zombie show.”
But something even scarier is happening 25 feet up in the air.
“Nobody’s going to believe I did this!”
Gaius Charles in ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.Peter Kramer/AMC
“F— me, I almost fell!”
Freaking out also describes the current state of Lauren Cohan.
“I can’t do it.
I can’t do it.
I can’t do it,” repeats the actress to seemingly no one and everyone.
Cohan could easily call for her trusty stunt double D.J.
“F— yeah!”
she exclaims after arriving on the platform and hugging her scene partner in celebration.
Looking back later on the crossing, Cohan sees it as a defining moment.
“Literally, my feet would not move,” she recalls of freezing in place.
“I started crying, definitely was hyperventilating.”
So what changed and got her over that beam?
Don’t look down, but we’re about to find out.
On Nov. 20, 2022,The Walking Deadaired its177th and final episode.
“That was AMC,” Gimpletold EW last year.
“It was heavy when it happened.
I wasn’t expecting it and had all sorts of plans for the future.”
But AMC’s marching orders were even more surprising than merely shutting down the record-breaking drama.
Instead, they wanted more!
“Every day I was looking for familiar faces,” says Morgan.
“Because it’s the same world, right?
It felt like a whole new job.”
It seems Negan has gotten himself into a bit of trouble SHOCKER!
and Maggie can help him escape…ifhe’ll aid her in getting Hershel back.
“She kind of blackmails him into helping,” laughs Morgan.
They’re on your tail and we can get out of here.
You help me save Herschel, and then I won’t turn you in.'
So it’s maybe not starting off on the greatest foot."
“I don’t know that you ever forget that, or ‘get over it.'”
I don’t know that he’s found his perfect little happy ending with a bow on it."
“He’s a man on a mission, and he has really strong code,” says Jorne.
“Whether we agree with that code or not remains to be seen.”
Charles’ take on that aforementioned code?
“I take a stab at give people a chance, which you’ll see.
“But, of course, this being TheWalking Dead, I eventually will.”
On the opposite side of law and order is another new threat known simply as the Croat.
Played byZeljko Ivanek,the Croat is an unwelcome blast from Negan’s past.
Which all bears the question: Is there anyonenotcoming after Negan on this show?
So, you know, he’s in a tough spot when the series kicks off.”
“Manhattan is the ground zero of the virus,” Cohan explains.
The government bombed all the bridges and access to and from the island.
And into that brave and bitter new world step Maggie and Negan.
“There are many different factions in the city,” says Cohan.
But the biggest question of all is… how long will their stay in the Big Apple last?
A rough start out of the gate could dampen enthusiasm for the other follow-up series.
Cohan and Morgan just hope viewers are ready to cross it.
