‘Walking Dead’ EP Angela Kang talks about Tonight’s Final Mid-Season Finale, Norman Reedus’ Head Injury Accident, and Last Day of “Surreal” Filming

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“All I’ve ever done and done is make a choice,” Lauren Cohan’s Maggie Ri tells her young son Herschel (Keen Michael Spiller) in tonight’s mid-season finale. Dead living. “You may not like where we’re going right now, but I promise you, it’s the right choice,” he added, as the zombie apocalypse series reached the eleventh and two-thirds of its final season.

The final eight episodes of the AMC show based on the Robert Kirkman comics will debut this fall, and tonight’s “Acts of God” was certainly a reckoning and a revelation.

The latter is due to the death of rapper Leah Shaw (Lynn Collins), the rapper of his ex-girlfriend Daryl Dixon (Norman Ridus), while plotting an inevitable revenge against Maggie.

Due to the tension between the first Maggie and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) after Cohan’s character has a unique villain (Stephen Eun) and the murder of another member of the Survivors in the opening season of Season 7. Maggie Ri says to Maggie, after Negan admits she’s willing to be with him to save Herschel at the start of the season. . I mean, from the dead.

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Less than two weeks to the Georgia national team TWD My mom had the last day of shooting for the show, entertainer Angela Kang was talking to me tonight about the 11B finals, about these spin-offs, Ridus suffered a head injury, Ridus was on the set last month, about the ending, “surrealism” the last day and how it’s not over yet .

DEADLINE: Now that we see Maggie and Negan’s relationship change in two-thirds of “Gods Acts” from last season, where does the spinoff begin?

KANG: Interestingly… We’ve been telling this story for a long time before any spin-offs come out. So we weren’t coordinating our story with the Spinoff. They pick up where these two left off, but we really felt that Negan had a desire to try to prove himself. I’ll say it’s surprising that he hasn’t apologized to the end yet, but this is a guy trying to show his feelings, I don’t know, guilt or others, and that’s not quite a closure.

Also, I think as a very pragmatic leader, Maggie can really look at what she’s done this time and say she did everything she could to help my son and it had nothing to do with it. So for us I think that is part of their charm or journey. Continue again. Not everything between them is decided in the end, but we really love writing for this couple. Lauren and Jeffrey are very good together when they play.

DEADLINE: Also, Lauren’s character playing Annie Smith as Medina Senghor as Negan’s pregnant new wife may not change her feelings towards the man who killed her husband, but she seems to be developing them…

KANG: definitely. I think even the fact that Maggie has kind of softened up towards Negan, knowing Ani and having a very direct feeling that this person is a good person she loves and can trust to be on her level. The fact that she chose Negan and vice versa says one thing, and I think Annie really is the key to all of this and I think she still doesn’t forgive Negan, even for young Herschel.

DEADLINE: While mom is soft?

KANG: I mean, this is the man who killed his father, and he just found out. But I think even Herschel has a different feeling for Ani. You can say your heart is a good heart. You know, at the core of Maggie is someone who wants to trust people, is optimistic and hopeful that they can be friendly, and you know that relationships can be built. In fact, she is against what she naturally wants to be, forcing people, abandoning and abandoning them. He’s made a lot of decisions lately and it’s making things difficult for him, so I think everything will turn upside down a bit in Ani’s presence.

DEADLINE: Speaking of existence, these locust suits are symbolic, but over the years you haven’t seen it as usual. TWD Mid-season finale. There is a sense of transition. Will it be something baked in last flow and great season, while getting different hues at the same time?

KANG: I think there are many. Get different hues. The 24-season season really has a different pace for us. We have to pay off well over the season, but we also have average scores that are great.

DEADLINE: What are you talking about?

KANG: As you know, some episodes are supposed to be a little more restrictive, and in this case, we decided to make most of these big episodes with a lot of people in it, and we just wanted to make a mess. . . Sometimes we do. For example, mid-season or the finale or whatever you call a more focused narrative, that’s not the only situation we do. Chapters 16 and 17 were thought to be two sides of the same coin. So here we are really following one part of the story and after the start of 11C, chapter 17 chooses the other side. So I know there are people who won’t be happy if their particular favorites don’t show up here, but I hope they get that satisfaction in the next episode.

DEADLINE: You know there is always an expectation. dead living The mid-season finale will bring us great death…

KANG: (Laughter) That’s what happens sometimes. I think in this case we went the way that Leah’s death is our big death because sometimes our death is the death of a criminal. I think there are too many expectations and sometimes we like to lower those expectations.

DEADLINE: Against this backdrop of expectation, you are currently filming in TWD. In just the last two weeks, you broke up. Filming is over. We saw the photos. We’ve seen footage of the band. We saw everything today. I know you just got back from Georgia, what was that?

KANG: It feels surreal.

You know, it doesn’t feel like it’s over for most of us who’ve been on the show for a long time. Actually, to some extent, this is because it is not. It’s another six months of hard work, we’ve got PR and marketing, events, comics, premieres, and relationships. So on one hand it seems unfinished, but production is a very important part of the group’s work together.

DEADLINE: We’ve seen some people, like Greg Nicotero, post online, so how was that last day for you?

KANG: Sure there were a lot of tears over the days, but also a lot of hugs and love.

It was one of those songs where so many people came together and everyone sang as if it wasn’t goodbye. You will see later or wait for the next one. We’ll all be connected, so don’t even say goodbye. So I think it was a mood with a great band.

DEADLINE: That last day, Norman Ridus injured his head on set, which set things back a bit. We told the story, the details, and how quickly he got back on camera, so I didn’t want to go there but wanted to know how it felt for you.

KANG: Whenever someone gets hurt on set, we get emotional, no matter how small. It all happened when he hit his head. It was an accident and everything was properly reported at the time. She didn’t want to go to the doctor, but I was late the day she needed it. I haven’t uploaded it yet. I was planning to go there later. So I was working on something else when I got a call that it was in progress. But they all handled it perfectly and Norman took care of it. It works great but you know არის I think we’re all very excited. We all take great care of everyone who is part of the cast. It was a really great call, but you know, proof that there are people around him who care, who make sure he doesn’t have to go alone, and then come back and do it. His article.

DEADLINE: On another level, now TWD Anne is finished filming and I know you have a few months to become a producer, but spin-offs are coming, you’re working on the Daryl and Carroll spin-offs with Norman and Melissa McBride. Maggie and Negan met from New York island of the dead Fashion, afraid of the walking dead It’s still in production and the anthology is in production, will we see transitions?

KANG: You know, I can’t get into anything about the world, but I think it’s because there’s an ever-expanding world. I think it’s great to see that there are characters who will have the afterlife for those involved, and that means there are opportunities for everyone else.

DEADLINE: It took you a long time to get here and you guys have to go out on your own terms, how do you think it’s going to be when you realize The Walking Dead is really over?

KANG: So I didn’t graduate. As you know, this time the schedule is very different, as it is usually much shorter from the end of the season to the last exhibition of the block. To some extent, we had to do so many more episodes in the last season that there is still a lot to do…

So it’s too much of a process and for me I think, wherever I am in the process, I try to let it all go and my head is still too much. It’s a lot of work after Friday and I’ve been training for a few more days and I’m still making notes about it. Really… weird, I’d say. It’s strange to live in another world.