SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the series finale of Fear the Walking Dead, which aired tonight on AMC.
“It was first written with the intention of being very flowery and beautiful, with beautiful hugs and love,” reveals Colman Domingo in today’s episode about the recent separations. Fear the walking death Season finale. “It’s just not true to our characters,” adds the Emmy-winning actor, explaining why it wasn’t the end audiences saw for his often sleazy Victor Strand, Kim Dickens’ Madison Clark or Rubén Blades’ Daniel Salazar .
“We were very strong characters with very strong wills and we had to end in a very complex way.”
After eight seasons, there was a true global pandemic that made the breakthrough TWD The tone of the spinoff seems almost documentary, and a massive expansion of the zombie apocalypse universe on AMC, the series created by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson certainly ended Sunday in a very emotionally complex way. After the final showdown with Troy, his gang and a pack of incoming walkers, “Fighting Like You” and “The Road Ahead” feature core player Domingo, Dickens, the Blades characters and Madison’s vengeful daughter Alicia (Alycia Debnam). -Carey), the scarred Dwight (Austin Amelio), June (Jennifer Elfman) and Luciana (Danay García) go their separate ways – with some unsure if the others are still alive or just myths.
In many ways, it’s a return to where it all began, literally and figuratively.
In another way, perhaps even more so for Domingo, who released the biography of the civil rights icon Rustin on Netflix on November 17, it is a path that opens as several others imagine themselves. As Dickens’s Madison says of her intention to return to Los Angeles to be with Alicia and now adopt shooting granddaughter Tracy (Antonella Rose): “It will never be the same again, but that doesn’t mean we cannot start. “.”.”
As Domingo made clear in our chat where we discussed the finale, how he got there and what the next step might be, it’s about starting over and finding your true voice.
DEADLINE: There are some great discussions, with the Fear series finale coming full circle as Madison and Victor separately consider moving back to the West Coast to LA with their own crew. How has this journey been for you, literally and figuratively?
DOMINGO: I like the way Victor ended his journey, which is a bit more hopeful and, in my opinion, more peaceful. I think, especially after I became the villain of Uber in Season 7, I thought, Where can we go? Where can we finally go? First I asked the producers: Can we find love? He needs something to live on. And I think that’s always been Victor’s problem. He didn’t have anybody, you know? That’s why I feel like I wanted to put an end to it.
DEADLINE: It’s a very quiet ending, with Madison, Alicia and Tracy off to the side unbeknownst to everyone…
DOMINGO: Yes, it’s about leaving. Madison, Alicia and Tracy in his rearview mirror Tracy really put in the rearview mirror. Okay, it’s a trip. Now it’s time for the next one. It is even written in the letter. I said that exactly when the team said where he was going. I said no. No one needs to know because we can only face the unknown. That’s the beauty of it. Let them go somewhere and let them rebuild and remake and remake.
DEADLINE: You know there’s a spin-off of this with giant neon lights, right?
DOMINGO: (laughs) It could be possible. It depends on.
DEADLINE: What do you mean?
DOMINGO: I feel that the writing style may be good, but it should be something that challenges me.
DEADLINE: What would it be?
DOMINGO: Light on Fear the walking death, Remember, this was something I had never done before. I’ve never done a genre show like that. It challenged me in every way, with visual work and character work and all that stuff. I’ve done so much with Victor Strand for eight seasons, to do more, it’s got to be like, “We’ve got to step it up somehow.” Like, take me to the moon, or I don’t know, or , you know, take me They’ll take me to another country, under different circumstances if I do it again. But now I am very happy that this is the end of our journey together.
DEADLINE: You noted that you had never done anything like Fear the Walking Dead before you were cast. In fact, before Fear, I think you had just come off Broadway and the Scottsboro Boys, which was so different. Now you have Rustin, your first time as a lead, you had the Emmy win for Euphoria. How was this zombie apocalypse journey for Colman Domingo?
DOMINIGO: Fear the walking death kept me in this business. I actually wanted to leave the company. I am dead serious.
DEADLINE: What?
DOMINGO: i did it Scottsboro boys and I thought it was the best thing I could do in the theater. Because I came back and got these crappy auditions for these roles that I felt were humiliating or had no purpose. So I thought, I guess I did what I should have done, I’ll do something else.
DEADLINE: What happened?
DOMINGO: Then I changed agencies because I thought it would take six months and my new managers and fear was the first audition. I actually discussed and discussed it The descent same day, and I had to make a choice. It’s funny, it was filmed in New York and Fear wasn’t, but I thought, I’ve never done anything like that. Let’s see what doors it opens
I owe him so much Fear the walking death because it gave me something that I felt was purposeful. Our humanity is truly taken into account. It’s taken me all over the world, whether it’s recording or promotion and promotion, and it’s really been the gift that keeps on giving. I really owe it a lot Fear the walking death and AMC. I value them very much as partners and friends. It really did a lot for me.
DEADLINE: It’s interesting that you say that now, because watching these last few episodes, especially the two-episode finale, I felt like you, Kim, Rubén and others – that it was your voices in the characters that really came through …
DOMINGO: Because they were. We started rewriting it. We had to convey the feeling: “What is the end of our journey?” Together with me, Kim Dickens Rubén Blades, we were involved in these scripts. We say, “No, we have to give our characters meaning.”
People can say what they want about any show that lasts eight seasons, it has ups and downs, ups and downs. Sometimes you think: I don’t know what we’re doing anymore. But at some point I want to make sure I’m responsible for Victor’s end. Kim and Rubén felt the same. We wanted to make sure we didn’t just have bright, clean endings and fun moments. The end of me and Kim Dickens is really broken. Me and Rubén Blades, in the end it looks like we’ll see each other. OK. It’s going well. Keep going. First it was written as very flowery and beautiful, with beautiful hugs and love. It’s just not the truth of our characters. We were very strong characters with very strong will and had to end in a very complex way.
DEADLINE: You mention the scene with Victor and Daniël at the end, a friendly confrontation and recognition at the same time. At the same time also a very theatrical scene, by which I mean the way you played it…
DOMINGO: We rewrote, we were very involved. We went through this scene with the writers about ten times. It’s still not right, it’s still not right. Victor falls as if he has changed in his arc, but Daniel still clings to an old idea of him. So that’s cool. That’s where it should be, and we just wanted to do it that way. Just stand. Just look at each other, be very simple and walk away from each other.
DEADLINE: iWhen it comes to dating, fans never want a show to end. Spin-off or not, how has the relationship with Fear fans been over eight seasons?
DOMINGO: Oh, that’s it, isn’t it? Yeah, man, I just wanted to say to the fans, thank you so much for coming on this journey with us. The effort was to create some really compelling, interesting characters and stories about world building, about exploring who you are when the crap hits the fan. We’ve had moments to explore this, especially given the pandemic, so thank you. It’s been quite a ride.
Source: Deadline
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