“I absolutely hated it.
I think the reason I hate this is also why she hates it.”
Hasn’t Maggie Rhee been through enough already?
Lauren Cohan on ‘The Walking Dead’.Jace Downs/AMC
Revenge: It’s an endless loop, people!
But Leah didn’t just want to kill Maggie, she wanted to make hersuffer.
However, for fans of the show, that was not the most shocking Maggie scene of the episode.
Norman Reedus, Ross Marquand, Lauren Cohan, and Seth Gilliam on ‘The Walking Dead’.Jace Downs/AMC
That went down when Maggie asked Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to watch over her son Hershel.
Yes, the same Negan that murdered her husband and Hershel’s dad.
You saved him at Riverbend.
Whatever else happens, and whatever else has happened, I will never forget that."
Maggie trusting Negan after everything he did to her family?
LAUREN COHAN: I know.
It felt like throwing up.
It just came at a time when I had to leave.
I was not willing to let anybody come with me.
And I knew the only place I could leave Hershel was with them.
None of that really changes how she feels.
But I absolutely hated it.
“She” being Maggie.
And right now you’re the best person for it."
And, you know, he’s not going to be alone with him.
I feel like I’m just justifying all these reasons, but it is true.
So yeah, it’s huge, that moment.
What does that statement mean for their relationship moving forward?
I hate to say it, but it really is just about this moment.
I don’t think it’s ever going to happen, but she needs his help at that moment.
It’s the best option she’s got, and there it is.
Let’s get into the big fight scene with you and Lynn Collins.
Tell me what filming that was like.
And to act with her, with all that in mind, is just as fantastic.
She is such a cool cat, and we just had a blast shooting that.
The scene was great.
Catriona McKenzie, who directed it, was amazing.
She wanted anAtomic Blondeepisode.
She wanted this savage true fight to the death that these people would actually have to engage in.
You don’t really have to say that twice for us to just go whole hog into the stunt.
And it sort of pans up, and she just looks scary as hell.
She slits the trooper’s throat, and then you realize it’s her that stole this stuff.
And it’s like, that’s what we want.
We want this feeling of being hunted by someone, where it would be terrifying.
On a very pure physical level, it’s so fun to do the stunts.
How much do you get to do before they make you step aside and put a stunt person in?
We learned the whole thing.
And the headbutt actually makes it all the way to your head.
So Lance Hornsby has taken over the Hilltop as well as all the other communities.
We are homeless and outnumbered, but we never quit.
And we have each other.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
