‘Walking Dead’s’ Andrew Lincoln on Negan Victim Questions: ‘It’s Become Part of My Daily Routine’

“It gets harder to keep secrets in this day and age,” star of AMC series tells TheWrap

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“The Walking Dead” fans are just a few short days away from learning who Negan killed in the Season 6 finale, which will mean a major lifestyle change for series star Andrew Lincoln.

“An hour doesn’t go by some days where I don’t get questions about who Negan killed. It’s become part of my daily routine,” Lincoln told TheWrap.

Lincoln and his co-stars have had to keep the major plot point secret for six months now, which is no easy feat, according to Lincoln.

“It gets harder to keep secrets in this day and age,” he said. “It’s almost absurd now when you get scripts — not just from this show but all scripts that I’ve received since the show began — the secrecy surrounding all of these things.”

Of course, there are plenty of sites out there that claim they can reveal Negan’s victim based on paparazzi photos from the set and what they claim are leaked scripts. But Lincoln wants to know, why would you do that?

“I get someone opening they’re own present at Christmas, but why would you want to open everybody else’s?” he asked.

“I understand that there’s some sense of ownership if you know something, or maybe you’re a more diehard fan if you know something, but I don’t know if that’s true,” he continued. “If I had waited this long the last thing I’d want is someone saying, ‘Alright, you wanna know?’”

“The Walking Dead” Season 7 premieres this Sunday, Oct. 23 at 9 p.m./8c on AMC.

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