He arrived like a soldier and died like one as well.
Abraham Ford was Negans first victim on the season 7 premiere ofThe Walking Dead.
Here are some highlights from the chat.
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He gets to terrorize every single person while terrorizing Andy and he gets to gauge each person.
I think it was very important for him to figure out our group.
You see him do it.
He says, Oh, hes your kid…You two were together.
He figures out so much without having any dialogue with any of us.
I think that was part of it.
This is probably not the first time hes played eenie meenie miney mo.
On when he found out about Abrahams death:
I found about a year and three months ago.
They told me that they were going to take me out.
They were talking about the end of season 6 and the beginning of season 7.
A lot of eyeballs are on the show.
We filmed the scene about a year ago.
It was literally the last episode of last year.
We usually finish filming just before Thanksgiving and we had finished filming that one just before Thanksgiving.
And they said they were re-doing contract negotiations for some of the cast all that was a lie.
Its not a real practicality to not tell her.
I told her and I told my kids last spring for the same reason.
Other than that, nobody knew.
It was this sort of unspoken, this very loaded peace sign.
And that was what we came up with.
So its been a very, very satisfying experience and I have zero regrets.
So somebody bumps into you and is like, Hey, whats up man?
Its like, Hey, whats going on?
Oh, are you down in Atlanta?
Yeah, I leave in two days.
It was always, I was just getting here, or I was just leaving.
So I had people who were pretty close to me who really didnt know what was going on.
And then for the next two weeks, I would go to a different gym.
So its kinda easy to throw people off….
Cause you dont have to lie to people.
You just have to keep them confused.
As long as theres more than one idea floating out there, then nobody knows whats going on.
I typically do that until I know what my next gig is.
The fan base, the fan connection with us is very strong and we respect them.
Cause they know that for them, it just happened, so well give them some time.
Glenn has a much more cemented emotional place in this show.
I get it, the fans love me.
But the character of Glenn weve watched him grow up from a kid.
We are so much more invested in the whole journey of Glenn than we are in Abraham.
But from an emotional standpoint, the weight all falls on the Glenn death.
And I think that we honored all of that.
On bonding with Steven Yeun over the double death:
Yeah I think we did bond over it.
Hes always been one of my favorite actors on the show and Melissa McBride…. You just need to know that its going to be okay, because hes so focused on the work.
On what he will miss most about working on the show:
I loved how they tell the stories.
I think its very applicable to life, what we all go through.
Its Thanksgiving dinner, its Christmas Day.
We are all we have out there and its great.
I am going to miss that element of it.
