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But several of the residents fought back.
And then stabbed her again.
Credit: Gene Page/AMC
And then stabbed her again.
In fact, for all we know Jessie maystillbe stabbing the poor woman.
We spoke to actress Alexandra Breckenridge to get her take on this pivotal moment.
Read on for more.
But I loved Melissas part because her character is so ballsy.
How did you want to approach that scene?
Shes trying to connect with her child.
Shes trying to have an open conversation.
Hes a teenager and he doesnt understand from an adult perspective of why.
Pete comes in and he kills Deannas husband, Reg.
So, in that moment, tensions are very high and its sort of understandable how he gets killed.
Because if I was in Rons place, I would hate Rick too.
I would think he was dangerous.
He killed my father!
But that was very emotional.
Austin [Abrams] is such a fantastic actor.
But he comes into it being there.
Hes ever-present, which is such a pleasure as an actor.
Its such a hard conversation to have, you know?
She is sort of trying to find her words; shes lost on how to communicate with him.
And hes just so emotionally overwhelmed.
They love each other, but theyre kind of divided in this moment on their opinions.
As an actor, you do scenes sometimes so many different ways.
What are Jessies feelings for Rick at this point?
She had that cooling down conversation with him last week.
She tells Ron that theyre friends.
What are her true feelings now?
She has underlying feelings for him.
But given the circumstances, shes not really paying much attention to that.
Clearly she is releasing some pent-up emotions.
Whats going on there?
I think its pretty obvious that she just goes crazy.
And for her its just I will not let this take me down.
I will become a fighter.
Tell me about the actual filming of the scene.
What was that like?
It was a lot of fun.
So theres a lot of me coming out in that as well.
How many times did I actually stab her?
I dont know, like 10 times?
It is a lot.
It was a predetermined number of stabbings.
And then she stabbed her in the head.
But it was predetermined.
It wasnt like I was just wailing on this girl that was on the ground.
It was like, Okay, youre going to stab her this many times and then its over.
How much of the fight did you get to do yourself and how much was the stunt team?
Actually, I did almost all of it.
Pretty much everything in that fight sequence I did.
So when I fell on the floor, I actually fell on the floor a few times.
Did you fire yourself up by hitting walls or grunting things like Andrew Lincoln does before a take?
What was your process?
For this scene specifically, I chose an insecure part of myself that I didnt want anymore.
Its always different for me.
I choose different things depending on what the scene is.
If that reality I cant connect to enough, I use something that will connect me, like that.
So its always different.
But for this, specifically, that was a very powerful thing that I wanted to kill in myself.
I think Jessie and I were both doing the same thing in that scene.
We were both killing that side of ourselves.
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