12/13/2022 0 Comments Rick the walking dead interview![]() But if it weren’t on the page, I wouldn’t be able to do it. That’s a writer’s responsibility, and then it’s my duty to simply translate that into something interesting. Lincoln: I mean, that’s not in my job description. How, as an actor, do you keep it interesting? How do you make it fresh for yourself every day? You’ve been with the show for seven years now. On screen, especially, I will get to hang with a lot of my best buddies, which is always thrilling. Also I get to play with a lot of my favorite friends I’ve made on both sides of the camera this season. There’s more of what I think of as the combination of qualities that make up my favorite episodes: there’s action, there’s adventure, there’s a strong sense of solidarity, and yes, hope. Lincoln: The season is anchored by some of the biggest deaths we’ve ever encountered in a hundred episodes, is what I will say.Īnd yet there seems to be more hope on the horizon than before. Is there still room this season for some of the emotionality we’re used to on the series? The premiere is so action-packed, as you’ve mentioned. And I think perhaps that man will appear this season. He’s desperate to hold onto some semblance of who he was, of the man he used to be. But fundamentally he’s a man who is grief-stricken. That trauma has brought him into the place where sometimes he’s unrecognizable - and his behaviour is beyond all recognition sometimes, in order to protect his loved ones. What’s happened is, he’s been hammered and beaten and broken. ![]() But Rick is a fundamentally good person struggling to continue to be good. RICK THE WALKING DEAD INTERVIEW TVSo many of the characters we see on TV these days have the opposite arc: it’s about normal people becoming anti-heroes, people becoming morally compromised. Well that’s an interesting point: we want Rick’s mercy, his goodness, to prevail. I think that a lot of the other characters asking a different question: why are we fighting, and what is the cost of it? Are those not moral questions? If that’s not moral, I’m not sure what is. Will my mercy prevail over my wrath? That’s the overarching theme for my character. I think this season is reminiscent - at least for me, Rick’s arc - of a man trying to determine whether his mercy will prevail over his wrath. It’s a story about humans trying to survive both physically and emotionally. And of course it’s also a survival story. You know, it was always important to me that we talk on a creative level about the human inside the monster and the monster instead the human, and I think that’s absolutely the embodiment of the series. Let’s talk about not a moral story, but a human story. But I certainly think that it’s a human story. Discussions of morality have become fashionable in my lifetime. I mean, “morality,” it can be a very trendy word. And I know that it’s true that the people making this show are cautious of that. So while I don’t agree, I do think we have to very careful about the line that we walk between entertainment and sensationalism. I have great respect for the people writing it. Lincoln: This is a story I am very proud of and that I stand by. RICK THE WALKING DEAD INTERVIEW FULLRight now we’re going into a season that is called “All Out War.” I like to think we’re telling a story that is action-packed, and full of thrills, and moments of heroism and excitement - but at the same time, I like to think we’re telling a much deeper story, about the cost of war and conflict. But the problem of violence is something we take very, very seriously on set. I think we can all improve: we can all be kinder, more caring, more considerate, and more tolerant. ![]() Now, I think everybody can improve, in all respects. I do know the people creating the show are incredibly responsible when it comes to violence. Lincoln: That’s a difficult question for me to answer, to be honest, because I don’t actually watch the show that I’m on. ![]() Critics have called it gratuitous, and even exploitative. The reaction to last season was rather negative - particularly toward the extreme violence. It’s sort of the yang to last year’s yin. The person saying that - that’s a considerably different man than the man you saw last season. I think that idea, that sentiment, is articulated in the speech, which is that no matter what comes next, no matter what hardships come next, we’ve already won, we’re free. His defiance towards Negan seemed a testament to what he’d do for Carl. I think what you saw was a man living, at the end of the last season, at the edge. This seems like quite a different direction for the season.Īndrew Lincoln: Absolutely. Thrillist: We’ve just been roused by your inspirational speech at the end the premiere. ![]()
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