And it was with Josh McDermitt (Eugene), whom everyone just adores, so the phones and cameras were out! Michael Cudlitz was directing and I'm such a big fan of his! I was nervous about the fans, I was nervous about impressing Cudlitz, it was kinda Josh and my first real scene together, and it was an intense one so I was nervous about that too! I was still somewhat of a secret, so it was tricky. We were filming in the middle of town, word had gotten out that we were there, so a lot of fans were around. My favorite scene is definitely when Max exposes herself for not being Stephanie. And Greg, to his credit, he let me do it. But I like that we took that moment and we altered it and we made it different than just "Nooooo!" I'm glad that we put in the work to change it. He came down off the bridge for my close up and he's standing by the camera and everyone's crying. And it's kind of because I'm a wimp, it's kind because I love Andy, and it's kind of because of the characters, but it all just came together and I was just crying like a baby. And it turned out to be such an emotionally charged scene. I want you to be the last face I see before this is over. So we made this change where I'm just locking eyes with him and I'm shooting zombies that are walking towards him, but it's more about me and him connecting. So to run on the bridge and be like, "Nooooo!"… everybody's doing that already.
I know he's not going to make it through that. I was originally written to run with the group down the bridge and be like, "No!" But Greg directed that episode, and we came up with this idea that it was like he'd be in a hospital bed dying and I'm holding his hand. When Rick blew up on the bridge, that scene was extra special to me. And so now I've got layers upon layers that I can pull from in doing this new adventure. And now going into even the new show, using that as part of the foundation of who he is has been an extraordinary gift to have. You can think about your backstory all you want, but when you play it out, it really comes to life.Īnd so then moving forward for me into season 11 and having those kind of introspective moments that Negan had, which we never really had before because he was always motor mouthing, it helped having done the "Here's Negan" episode.
A whole lot of stuff was going on in that episode, and I loved finding who Negan was, because that was me also finding out a lot who he was. My whole family was living on the Alexandria set. It was during those pandemic six episodes. It was just a special thing to be able to film and work with and all of it. And even if it only gave the Negan sympathy for that 40 minutes and then you hated him again afterwards, it's okay, because we got a foot in the f-ing door there with a lot of people. I think the highlight of everything and the culmination of all of it was the "Here's Negan" episode for me.
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