Robert Kirkman Talks With Entertainment Weekly About Episode 7 “Pretty Much Dead Already” **SPOILERS**

NOTE: As always this post contains spoilers!

Robert Kirkman sat down with Entertainment Weekly for their regular discussion about The Walking Dead. In this interview Kirkman talks about the part at the end with Sophia, Madison Lintz (the actress who plays Sophia), the situation with the barn, and the fact that this episode was slower than the others among other things.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So my TV broke about three minutes before the end of the episode. Did I miss anything?
ROBERT KIRKMAN: [Laughs] They all died. A comet came down and everyone melted.

All joking aside, I thought the shooting of the zombiefied Sophia did make for a fantastic end to this run of shows.
Thank you very much. Yes, we love shooting children here at the Walking Dead.

It was a great bait-and-switch. Even in this episode there was an awful lot of talk, both from Carl and Daryl, about the need to keep searching for Sophia. You totally had me fooled.
It’s good to know people didn’t see it coming. That’s a big concern when you have this kind of story line and you are leading to that kind of reveal. You don’t want people to be expecting it, especially in the Walking Dead. I pride myself in the fact that, when you pick up an issue of the comic, you don’t know what’s going to happen at any time. So any time we can work that into the show and maintain that in a television environment, it’s very exciting for me. I’m glad people are being caught off guard.

Did Madison Lintz play the zombie Sophia?
Oh yeah, that was her in makeup. That’s the consolation prize to finding out that you’re dying on the show. It’s never fun for an actor to learn that they’re being written out of the show and it’s a hard thing to do. It’s something that we never take lightly. But, you know, you’ve got to kill characters! On this show, you at least get the benefit of getting up and coming back as a zombie. That hopefully makes it a little less uncool.

Were you around when they shot that final scene?
I was not. But the writer of that episode, Scott Gimple, was on set and he did bring me back some shell casings from the blanks that were fired into the zombies at the barn. In the writer’s room we refer to that scene as “Barnageddon.”

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