The Walking Dead killed lots of people when it was on. Some deaths had been earned, some felt unfair, others had been sort of humorous, however not many caught with the present’s viewers like watching Steven Yeun’s Glenn die. As within the comics, Glenn will get overwhelmed to loss of life with Negan’s spiked baseball bat, and it was a fairly large deal on the time, to a degree {that a} newspaper in Arkansas really revealed an obituary for him days later.
Some individuals jumped off the present as soon as he acquired knocked off, and even former main man Andrew Lincoln admitted the present may’ve crossed the road with Glenn. Speaking to Empire Magazine about his time on the present, he stated that was when the present “over-egged the omelette. [That death] could have lingered an excessive amount of.” The precise filming of the loss of life was additionally fairly intense, he added, significantly for Negan actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Lincoln recalled Morgan doing a monologue in entrance of everybody and being “one of many [show’s] most disagreeable characters.” As the opposite actors had been certain on their knees and crying, Morgan requested him if this was regular, to which Lincoln’s Rick Grimes confirmed, “Yeah, all people simply retains going.”
There was numerous furor of Glenn’s death on the time, not helped by the truth that he’d had a fake-out death just some episodes earlier. You recognize the story after that: Lincoln left the present just a few seasons later (each he and Yeun returned for the collection finale, both via archive materials or newly shot footage), and finally returned for the current miniseries The Ones Who Dwell. Yeun, in the meantime, went on to headline tasks like Nope, Beef, and Invincible, and was at one level going to be the Sentry within the Thunderbolts film earlier than bowing out. Nonetheless, it hasn’t been that lengthy for the reason that authentic Strolling Useless present ended, so it’s unlikely anybody’s gonna be forgetting Glenn’s finish anytime quickly.
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