Screen Rant Interviews Michael Rooker

SR: Well, switching from one crazy character to the next, tell me what’s going on with everyone’s favorite racist drug addict TV star Merle from The Walking Dead.

MR: There’s an actual campaign on the Internet right now, and you can go on and it’s hashtag MoMerle [#MoMerle on Twitter]. I said as a joke one day to someone on Facebook, they wanted to know if I was coming back, I said, “I don’t know if I’m coming back.” This is when I didn’t know if I was coming back or not. I said, “Well, call up AMC and tell them you want Mo’ Merle.”

And, lo and behold, there’s a whole Internet campaign now for “Mo’ Merle.” And it all started as a little joke I made like six months ago.

SR: That’s the power of the social Internet. If they can get Betty White to host Saturday Night Live, then they’re going to get Merle back for Season Two and more.

MR: [Laughing] They’re going to get even “Mo” Merle.

SR: So, when you initially joined the production, was it something where Frank Darabont said, “We’re going to lose you early in Season One, but you’ll be back”? Were you promised time in Season Two to flesh out the character.

MR: I wasn’t promised anything really. I did the job sort of a la carte. They didn’t have a lot of money that first six episodes, and they still don’t have a lot. They’re already preaching, “We’re poor,” you know, but they are. I don’t know what their budgets are, but they’ve got to do 13 now.

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-Dane

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