SFX.co.uk Interviews Jon Bernthal And Steve Yeun

SFX.co.uk got a chance to sit down with Jon bernthal and Steve Yeun for an interview.  In the interview they talk about filming the Second Season, the gore in the show, and the comics among other things.

Have you been shooting the show in order this year?
Jon Bernthal [Shane]: Yeah, there’s been certain situations with locations or haircuts or stuff like that where we’ve had to jump ahead to get something from an episode a little bit down the road. What’s different this year to last year, which I think has been tremendously useful for the actors is that last year we got script-to-script every episode. This year the first seven were given to us right off the bat so we really got to see where things headed and where we were going and it helps us enormously. Logistically because we get to learn our lines way off the jump, but also to have a real concrete idea to know where we’re going in the course of the first few months was really helpful.

There are 13 episodes this year rather than six. Are you treating it as one continuous entity or will there be a split in the middle?
JB: There’s a break at the end of the eighth episode and the eighth we haven’t read. I think they’ve deliberately kept it from us so we couldn’t say anything about it. I have heard there is going to be an actual break and it isn’t going to air for a little while, and then they’re going to do the back five.

So you don’t have any info yet on the next season?
Steven Yeun [Glenn]: I think we’re going to hit the Walking Dead landmarks we’re supposed to hit. As actors we don’t specifically know per se. I think it’s common knowledge that the prison is in the future. We’re definitely getting that but at what point we don’t know.

Last year you were a new show in a genre that hasn’t really been explored much on TV. Do you have more confidence to push boundaries this year?
JB: I think that’s what they are trying to do. They’re being braver in every sense. I think people mistake bravery for real violence and real dark dirty shit on this. I think emotionally and character-wise we’re going for things, we’re going for issues, we’re going to some really tough places in that way too. Yes, it’s going to be super dark this year, and the gore and the violence is going to be like the show is on steroids. I think when you make a bold step forwards and you get this enormous pat on the back it just encourages you to go, “Well, let’s take a huge step forward now.” And I think that’s what everyone is doing and it really starts with the writers.

 
To read the entire interview click here!
 

-Dane

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