Life on “The Walking Dead” set without Andrew Lincoln is pretty freakin’ weird, according to star Norman Reedus.
“It’s been weird as f–, I won’t lie,” Reedus said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly when asked what it’s been like filming without Lincoln. “I still send him scripts. When no one’s looking, I email him scripts, and he gives me notes still to this day. It was weird, I have to tell you.”
Reedus said the weirdest part wasn’t actually filming without the leading man, but instead, he misses hanging out with Lincoln on set.
“I’ve never not had lunch in my trailer with him in nine years,” he said. “We always get my lunch and go back to my trailer, the two of us. So I just kinda sat there quietly, like, where the f— is Andy right now?”
“That was the hardest part for me. It’s all healed itself, but I have to say eating lunch by myself in my trailer was really, really weird. It made me really depressed. In my trailer right now, one of the chairs in there is covered in blood and it’s from Andy Lincoln’s last day. He had somebody’s blood all over him, and he left my chair covered in blood. And I still won’t let the cleaning guys clean off that chair, because that bloody chair reminds me of Andy every day. The whole trailer’s really clean except for one chair that’s covered in blood.”
Reedus also recalled having some fun on Lincoln’s final day — and sneaking into his last shot.
“The very last scene that we shot, he’s supposed to smile,” Reedus said. “He was supposed to smile, and it was a close-up. So I kept sneaking in and tickling his feet and making him smile on this one line. And I thought it was funny. And he liked it. He kept asking me to keep doing it. So the last scene that he shot on this show, I’m below camera tickling his feet.”
'The Walking Dead': Let's Obsess Over These New Season 9 Images (Photos)
"The Walking Dead" Season 9 is still close to two months away, but we have some new photos from the first episode and we're obviously trying to glean as much information from them as possible. In this first photo, we see Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Carol (Melissa McBride), Ezekiel (Khary Peyton) and Eugene (Josh McDermitt).
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Michonne, looking fierce as always. In Season 9, Michonne has added a small plaid wrap from one of Carl (Chandler Riggs)'s shirts to keep his memory close, according to showrunner Angela Kang.
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Maggie (Lauren Cohan) has taken over as the leader of the Hilltop in the upcoming season, and it looks from this photo like she is indeed leading the pack.
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This photo looks like Maggie's Hilltop residents have encountered someone or something that's caught them by surprise. In the back, you can see former Savior Alden (Callan McAuliffe), who was once Maggie's prisoner.
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What are Daryl, Michonne and Rick looking at?
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Carol and Ezekiel are in a happy relationship at the beginning of Season 9. In one clip released from the Season 9 premiere, Carol tells Daryl that after having an abusive husband like Ed in the past, dating Ezekiel is nice -- even though he can be corny.
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We saw a bit of this scene in the Season 9 trailer released at Comic Con. It seems as though the crew has made it to Washington, D.C., and are trying to get this wagon out of a museum.
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Good ol' Jerry (Cooper Andrews) is here to hopefully provide some more of his sweet comic relief.
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Rosita (Christian Serratos) is writing something on this road sign. Remember the "A"s that will occasionally pop up? Showrunner Angela Kang recently said that "there is a meaning" to it, which we'll find out this season.
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Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) debuts a new glass eye after that strange condition that showed up last season.
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Daryl has his crossbow at the ready in this picture -- but we can expect the apocalypse's heartthrob to have some new weapons this season as well. Reedus helped design some "saw-backed Bowie knives with finger rings that allow you to quickly twirl the knives into different positions (you can grip them in either direction)," Kang said on AMC's blog this week.
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In this last shot, it seems like the crew were successful in getting that wagon and are headed... somewhere. Back to the Hilltop? To the communal camp from the trailer?
Season 9 hits AMC on Sunday, Oct. 7.
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New photos hint at the post-All Out War world
"The Walking Dead" Season 9 is still close to two months away, but we have some new photos from the first episode and we're obviously trying to glean as much information from them as possible. In this first photo, we see Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Carol (Melissa McBride), Ezekiel (Khary Peyton) and Eugene (Josh McDermitt).