Warning: Spoilers for the Walking Dead: Season 7 premiere follow...
One of The Walking Dead's tragic victims of Negan's barbed-wire bat, Lucille, took some questions today from critics and reporters to talk about leaving the show and, also, sharing his big dastardly death moment with a second surprise character.
Michael Cudlitz, aka Abraham Ford, opened up about his initial thoughts regarding Abraham also dying during what would turn out to be a huge moment for Glenn.
"I actually had some concerns about that going in," Cudlitz revealed, "because I'm a fan of both the graphic novels and the TV show. So as a fan of the TV show, when we were doing this I was very specific to Scott [Gimple, showrunner] and said 'This cannot in any way take away from Glenn's death.' Glenn has a much more cemented emotional place on the show. I get it. The fans love the Abraham character. I've been very blessed to be on the show. I had a great time. I get it. Fans love me. But the character of Glenn, we watched him grow up from a kid. We are so more invested in the whole journey of Glenn than we are in Abraham."
"We're starting to get invested in Abraham," Cudlitz added, "and as far as seeing a future for him we were definitely on board. But from an emotional standpoint, the weight all falls on the Glenn death. So I was very happy the way it was all put together. How it was scripted. How Abraham got to take it like a solider. Then the emotional weight of the journey of Glenn with Maggie and him getting that Last of the Mohicans moment, 'I will find you,' that transcends the show."
Michael Cudlitz in The Walking Dead season premiere.
Cudlitz then took some time to tell IGN about how he and actor Steven Yeun bonded over the shared death experience.
"Look, I'm not some f*****g guru or sage or an ultimate father figure in all this, but I've been around doing this a lot longer than Steven has," Cudlitz said. And I knew that for Steven this would be a very different experience, leaving the show. You're talking about an actor who started on the show very young, grew up on the show, grew into a man. And as an artist, he grew into an amazing actor. He's always been one of my favorite actors on the show. He and Melissa McBride. When I came on the show, I'd seen Shane die. I'd seen Lori die. I'd seen Hershel die. Beth die. I'd seen all these people pass. So when I came on the show, I knew it was a matter of time. If you come on the show after the third season and you're a fan of the show and you've watched the episodes and you're surprised to learn that you're going to get killed, you're a f*****g moron."
Still, Cudlitz knew that Yeun had been on the show from the beginning and him leaving would have a bigger impact.
"He's one of the people who, from the beginning, has made this one of the, if not the, most watched shows in the world," he said. "There's a lot layered into it. I know that he's not going to have trouble finding work after this, it's not about that. He's going to have an amazing career because he's an amazing actor. But I knew that it was going to be hard on him. I told him I was always available if he ever wanted to reach out. I told him he was going to go through phases. I'd left shows before. Not to this scale, but I told him that you'll feel good some days and then it's going to creep back up on you and you'll feel like crap. I just tried to make sure I was there for him. So it was a bonding experience for the two of us."
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at http://ift.tt/2aJ67FB.
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