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 crushed to loss of life with Negan’s spiked baseball bat, and it was a fairly large deal on the time, to some extent {that a} newspaper in Arkansas really printed 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] might have lingered an excessive amount of.” The precise filming of the loss of life was additionally fairly intense, he added, notably 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 sure 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 plenty of furor of Glenn’s death on the time, not helped by the truth that he’d had a fake-out death only a few episodes earlier. You already know the story after that: Lincoln left the present a couple of seasons later (each he and Yeun returned for the sequence finale, both by means of archive materials or newly shot footage), and ultimately returned for the latest miniseries The Ones Who Stay. 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 because the unique Strolling Useless present ended, so it’s not going anybody’s gonna be forgetting Glenn’s finish anytime quickly.
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