AMC’s Walking Dead Blog Interviews Neil Brown Jr.

AMC has recently posted up an interview they did with Neil Brown Jr. who plays the Vato Guillermo in the First Season of The Walking Dead.  In the interview they talk about the Genesis of the Guillermo character, some personal facts from Neil Brown Jr.’s personal life and how they correlate with Guillermo, among other things:

Q: Have you ever worked with the elderly?
A: No, but I used to go around with the church to visit the sick and shut-in as a kid, every first Sunday, to give the elderly communion. And my grandmother had just passed when we started filming the show so it was kind of like therapy. She lived right around the corner from my mom. I was extremely close to her.

Q: Did you think of her when the old woman entered to break up the stand-off?
A: She came in and gave one of my grandmama’s smiles. My grandmother could calm a situation with one smile. She was an angel.

Q: You used to be a boxer. Did that training come in handy for The Walking Dead?
A: You could see how Guillermo could be a welterweight boxer. I fought for 26 years. Pretty good. [Laughs] He’ll stand a certain way, touch his chin a certain way, look a certain way, gotta be ready to move.

Q: What other skills do you possess that would be helpful in a zombie apocalypse?
A: My grandmother cooked everything from turtle soup to possum. She taught me how to take any animal and fricassee it up and make it taste delicious.

To read the entire interview click here!

-Dane

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