Collider has the following statements from the cast. Be sure to click the link to read the rest of the interview. Below are some select questions and their answers.
How broken do you think Rick is, at this point? Will that hole be there, forever?
(ANDREW) LINCOLN: Well, yeah. When you lose someone that close to you, it changes you, irrevocably. Rick is one of these people who punishes himself. He blames himself, continually. It degrades him. It’s beautiful being able to play a guy that starts in one place, and then changes completely. I think it’s an incredibly ambitious and bold thing for AMC to do, to have a principal character who is not the same guy that you met in the first episode. And I think all of the characters do that. That’s one of the most compelling things, this season and last season. You see these people change.
Laurie, do you think Andrea sees that dark side in men like Shane and the Governor, or does she just see strong companions?
LAURIE HOLDEN: I don’t think she sees the dark side, at all. You have to understand that Andrea doesn’t know and isn’t privy to what the audience knows. All she knows is that, at the beginning of the season, she was out in the wild for seven months, living in the woods, and they come across this beautiful town and she’s able to breathe and hope and dream. She thought those days were over. It’s not like she chose he Governor over Michonne. She chose a life and a community. Is he charismatic and wonderful? Yes. So far, he hasn’t shown himself to be a brute. There are a lot of things that he’s done that she’s seen and can understand. The fact that he had a zombie daughter in his closet? Well, I sat next to my dead sister for two days, waiting for her to change. So, the rules have changed. I think Andrea is an alpha female and she’s drawn to strong men. Whether they happen to be crazy or not is the unfortunate part of the mix.
David, in the comic book, the Governor is evil, right off the bat, but you’ve really gotten the opportunity to humanize him. What’s going on in this character’s head, up until the mid-season finale?
DAVID MORRISSEY: The starting point for the Governor was Robert Kirkman’s book, The Rise of the Governor, which is a fantastic novel. That’s his backstory, right there. That’s who the man is. And we wanted to bring more of that character into the first half of the season, so it’s more about who he is and his complexity. In the comic book, he’s quite evil, right off the bat. So, it was about giving him some humanity and something to fight for. That thing with his daughter was very understandable. Everybody in this world has lost someone that they care about. Hershel had a barn full of people that he cared about. It’s not out of the norm to want to have some of that past, and to be close to someone, even though they’ve turned. I think everybody in this world has that.
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