IGN Interviews The Walking Dead Cast About Season 2
IGN got a chance to sit down with Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Jon Bernthal during this years San Diego Comic-Con. In the interview they talk about the relationships between the three characters this season, the Season 2 scripts, and what it’s like working with Chandler Riggs (Carl), among other things.
Q: Can you give a description of the relationship between these three characters this season? There’s some tension there. How will it progress?
Lincoln: Yeah, I think that’s perfect. And also, there were two major things that happened earlier on in the season that have had a profound effect on this group of people and also move on this relationship to higher stakes if that’s possible. But it is, and the writers have come up with it, and it’s genius… and we can’t tell you anymore. [laughs] But it’s shocking. It really is.
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Bernthal: But it’s not the questions that maybe you were asking last season. It’s more complicated. It’s way more complicated, and that’s just great. There’s not a redundant second.
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Callies: Which I think is part of what’s great about the context of the show. Things become possible that wouldn’t be possible otherwise. You know, simple female perspective: man tries to force himself on you, and you can’t forgive that. But we’re at the end of the world, and there are three people in the world alive that I knew a month ago. So the ability for Lori to try and get past what happened in the rec room or rationalize it or let it go, because the circumstances are so extreme, I think we are finding that we have to have the capacity for forgiving unforgivable things or holding one another accountable, sometimes very small things. And that just speaks of the show: Change what I think could otherwise become a very redundant dynamic.
�Lincoln: I do think the show is about humanity, what’s left of humanity, if it’s worth holding onto humanity. These are all the kind of issues when it’s so life-or-death. It’s people’s choices at the end of the world, when everything’s stripped away from it. We’re blessed with the fact that we can have an action sequence, an intense kind of edit. And then the next minute, you have a very intimate scene about a love affair. That’s the reason I did this job, not to play Rick but because of that character Morgan in the pilot episode. I went, ‘That’s it! Genius.’ You have a zombie apocalypse, and yet you talk about what’s left of humanity, what it is to be human.
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Callies: Also, what’s interesting is that it erodes you, right? As an actor you’re tired by it, but the human psyche isn’t designed to sustain that kind of intensity for very long, and yet these people can’t get out of it. So it starts to warp the characters. You’re so deep in it for such a long time, and it allows the character to change. I think one of the great, exciting things about the second season is every character changes. We start to see some real darkness, and sometimes some real light and beauty and strength where you don’t expect it. It’s that intensity that’s the sort of forge out of which those things come. It’s great dramatically for us too.
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To read the entire interview click here!
-Dane
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[...] The gang over at IGN got to sit down with cast members Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Jon Bernthal during Comic Con. They dish about season two here. [...]