AMC’s Walking Dead Blog Interviews Director Gwyneth Horder-Payton

AMC’s Walking Dead blog got a chance to interview Director Gwyneth Horder-Payton who directed the third episode of Season One and will be directing the first episode of Season Two.   In the interview Horder-Payton talks a little about the highway scene that we’ve seen them filming, she also talks about her most memorable moment on set, and The Killing episode that she directed which apparently is considered to be one of the scarier episodes.

Q: We’ve heard a lot about a highway snarled with traffic. What was it like to choreograph that?

A: It was a challenge. There were so many vignettes within the pileup — all these connected bits, people under the cars who had to see certain people under other cars. I already had a plan — and then we did a model — but then to do it on the site, you still have to make sure you could get under the cars and pick the right cars to get under. You can’t get under most cars, so it was like a combination of suburban soccer mom cars and redneck trucks.

Q: You directed Episode 3 of Season 1, which predominately took place at the survivor camp. How did this compare?

A: That was a director’s dream. I was up there with a total of 18 actors who couldn’t go to their trailers because it took too long, so basically we’re up there with a semi-air-conditioned RV which is sort of not really working. So, people were just out there sitting and panting and sweating. After five days, this Stockholm syndrome set in and they felt very dependent on me. It was a great bonding experience. It was also a major character episode, where you found out who people were and what the relationships were between each other. For this episode, it felt like there was almost no dialogue. There was a lot of creeping around… But, I still had 11 actors who go around as one bunch, so it’s this interesting little pipe tribe. It’s like who goes first and then who goes next and why?

Q: What was the most memorable moment on-set?

A: Hmm, we went through several driving RV scenes. There was a small group of crew members in the back of the RV, Andy’s driving and he’s a very good driver, but he is going fast away from the exploding CDC and he has to make a hard right turn, and we’re all in the back and the scene back there is just absolutely absurd: Everything is just flying. The boom guy comes literally flying six feet through the air and lands on the script supervisor. [Laughs]

To read the entire interview click here!

-Dane

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