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Gurira: It was probably one of
the most exhilarating things

I've ever gone through --
to be cast in this show.

[Grunts]

♪

Man: Action!

Lincoln: So, we all thought
the only way we're gonna do this

is by linking arms, looking
each other square in the eyes,

and going, "Let's give it
everything we've got."

Man: It's a family drama
set in hell.

[Gunfire]

-We are all one big family.
-Family.

-Family.
-"The Walking Dead" family.

[Choir vocalizing]

All: "The Walking Dead"
super fans!

I received a severed finger.

[Laughter]

[Laughing] Not a real severed
finger. A fake severed finger.

100 episodes.
That's rarified air.

[Groans]

[Growling]

Huth: We're so
unbelievably fortunate

that the show caught on
with audiences.

[Growling]

If anybody told you
they thought

we would be here
100 episodes later,

they're absolutely lying to you,

because we really didn't know if
we'd even get a second season.

Cover your ears.
[Weapon cocks]

Kirkman: The process of getting
"The Walking Dead" to television

was a very long process,

with a lot of starts and stops

and a lot of getting close
and then falling apart.

When this was
first brought around

to the different networks,
it was rejected,

it was accepted and developed,
and then it was rejected again.

And I think it took a young,
hungry cable company, like AMC,

to see the value

and take the risk of doing
a zombie television show.

Given that horror
on television back then

was kind of the ugly stepchild
of drama,

we were just hoping
we'd get renewed.

Is that a real vein
or is that...?

-No, that's put in.
-Ohh.

Kirkman: To be completely
honest, I didn't really know

anything about
the television business.

You know,
we would be reviewing scripts,

and I'd be like, "This thing
is never gonna get made."

And then I'd be, you know,
watching auditions,

and I'd be like, "Enh.
This is never gonna get made."

And then I was on set,
and I was there, filming it,

and I was like, "This thing is
never gonna make it to air."

And then, you know, suddenly,
it's on TV, and I'm like,

"This thing's
gonna get canceled.

This thing is never gonna last."

Uh, I guess
I'm a really negative person.

-Go!
-Bang, bang, bang, bang!

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
bang, bang, bang, bang!

-[Growling]
-[Grunting]

Luse: The amazing thing
for "The Walking Dead"

is that we have
this great blueprint

given to us by Robert Kirkman.

It's a gift because

to make that transition
from page to screen,

we can always go back
to our source material.

Kirkman: One of the things that
makes "The Walking Dead" cool,

one of the things that I think
has built the fan base,

is the fact that
when you sit down to read

an issue of the comic, you
never know what's gonna happen.

And so,
being able to pay tribute

to what comes in the comic
but also maintain

that aspect of you never know
what's gonna happen

I think is really important,

even though they've been
reading the comic

for, you know, over a decade.

[Sighs]
So, what happens now?

Glenn:
We bury her.

♪

[Smooches]

And cut. Very nice.

Hurd:
You can have a great script.

If you don't have the right
actors, you don't have a show.

Four men, four rounds.
What are the odds, huh?

Let's just hope that, uh --

Let's just hope that four
is your lucky number, okay?

The most interesting thing

is that we did not cast the role
of Rick Grimes first.

We actually cast the --
the role of Shane.

At that point, we didn't even
know that he was out there.

♪

Lincoln: This script sort of
came through from my agent

called "The Walking Dead."

And it said "Zombie" --
No, no. Wait a minute.

It said "Walking Dead."

And I thought,
"That's a really cool name.

Is it a war story?"

Underneath, it just said
"zombie survival horror."

And I was --
And I started to salivate.

Little girl?

I'm a policeman.

Little girl?

Lincoln: So, we all thought the
only way we're gonna do this

is by linking arms, looking
each other square in the eyes,

and going, "Let's give it
everything we've got,

and let's have fun."

♪

McBride: Well, it's --
it's based on a comic book.

And I remember driving home,

and I went by --
by the bookstore.

And I went in and asked where

"The Walking Dead"
comic book was.

I opened it up,

and there was a woman getting
her neck torn out, bit out.

Very, very different
from what I was used to.

So I was like, "Oh, yeah,
this is gonna be a lot of fun.

Yeah, this is great."

Morgan: Hey, mister!
What's that bandage for?

W-What? What?

You tell me...

or I will kill you.

James: You have to remember,
when we first started,

everything was vampires.

It was "Vampire Diaries"
and "Twilight"

and "True Blood" and stuff,

so the notion
of doing a zombie show --

Everybody said
that we were crazy.

[Crow caws]

Bialy: There's a fun story
about Rick's audition.

We Skyped with him.

And I remember he said,

"Oh, I just had a baby.
I just can't do it."

He was incredibly sleepless.
He was exhausted.

And I said, "You didn't have
a baby. Your wife had a baby.

Could you just get somebody

to read with you off-camera
instead of your wife?"

And he called
a friend of his who said,

"Well, you're never
gonna get this job.

I got 10 minutes.
Let's just do it."
Mm-hmm.

And so, I go to a buddy of mine,
Sam Hazeldine, who's a very --

a very accomplished actor,
but a terrible cameraman.

And I think
he filmed me sort of --

It's either my nose up --
I think it was like that --

or my nose down.

And I sort of sent that
to the casting director,

and they just went,
"What are you doing? You idiot."

And that's the tape that he sent
that was so strong

that the producers flew him out
for a screen test.

[Horse neighs, hoofbeats]

Hurd: The idea now of anyone
other than Andy Lincoln

bringing that role to life,
playing Rick Grimes,

is just...inconceivable.

[Clicking]

Oh, God.

Come on, people.
What the hell?

[Crossbow fires]

Bialy:
Norman has a fun story.

I just remember, when he first
came in to audition,

and he walked in the room
and said, "I suck at auditions.

I've never gotten a job off
an audition. I'm terrible."

And so, I read it, and I left,

and then I went
back to New York.

And I remember, when he left,
my note was,

"He's not right for this role,
but he is fascinating,

and we have to find
something for him."

And then when the --
And the producers agreed.

And they agreed.
Yeah.

He made -- made
such an impression on us

that we brought him back
in a role

that isn't from the
comic books, of Daryl Dixon.

And then I got a call as I was
walking through Chinatown,

saying, "Hey, they wrote a --
wrote a part for you."

And I was like, "Yay!"
Morning.

Huth:
Someone who actually never had
to audition is Melissa McBride.

-You washed my clothes?
-Well, best we could.

Scrubbing on a washboard
ain't half as good

as my old Maytag
back home.

That's very kind.
Thank you.

Huth: I produced a film called
"Stephen King's The Mist,"

and she had one very important,
critical scene in that movie.

And she was breathtaking.

It was about three years
after "The Mist" had shot,

and I -- I was called by
the local casting director.

Little did she know all these
conversations had gone on,

that she got a call that,
"We're doing a television series

in the zombie apocalypse
in Atlanta,

and you've been cast
in the role of Carol."

[Crying] Please, Lord.

Punish me
however you want.

But show mercy on her.

When in doubt,
put the camera on Melissa,

because she is
absolutely phenomenal.

Casting of Michonne
was very exciting for us.

It was a fan favorite.

This place is not
what they say it is.

It was probably one of
the most exhilarating things

I've ever gone through --
to be cast in this show.

[Growling]

To actually be handed
something this extraordinary,

a character this original,

was something I'd never --
I'd never come across, really.

-[Walkers groan]
-[Grunts]

Bialy: You know, you're
casting a brilliant woman,

not just
a brilliant actress,

which I think
has served her well.

-And badass. Just badass.
-And a badass. Yeah.

-Yeah.
-Really badass.

-And marker.
-Need a mark? Scene.

Huth: A lot of times in
television, you shoot a pilot,

and then you go away for months
and, you know,

wait to hear whether
you're gonna get picked up.

For us, our -- our kind of whole
pilot was the first season.

All right, everybody, step back
if you're not in the rehearsal.

All right, here we go!
Picture's up!

And mark!

Satrazemis: We knew that
we were in a -- in a place,

a highly creative place,
and we had all the right people.

No, no!
Oh, no! No, no!

God! God!
No, no! God!

McBride: The performances are
just so compelling to watch,

and I was like, "I don't think

I've ever seen anything
like this on television."

Help me!

[Walkers growling]

No!

[Walkers growling]

Rooker:
Something happened.

It was the right time,

the right creative individuals,

the right cast.

♪

No! No!

Rooker:
When the casting director
told me about the character,

that was one of the things

that really turned me on
about the role.
No!

This role is just --
is written for you, Rooker.

I mean, the guy is such an
ass-kicking Southern redneck.

He, like, cuts
his own hands off to --

I'm like, "What? What? What?
W-Wait. Hold on. He does what?"

Daryl: No! No!

Rooker: I've never experienced
anything like that --

anything like
"The Walking Dead."

And I said,
"Okay, I'll do it."

♪

James: You know, at the airport,
when you land,

they say, "Welcome to Hotlanta."

But until you experience it,
you don't really know it --

I mean, you know,
temperatures over 100 degrees

with 100% humidity.

Huth: Georgia is
absolutely critical to the show.

I kind of feel like
it's a character on the show --

the heat and the bugs --

you know,
it makes the show harder,

and it absolutely
makes the show better.

August in Georgia
is a special time.

[Sizzling]

It is hot.

Michonne:
Rick! Walkers!

Payne:
We film a lot in the woods,

where there's all manner
of bugs and creepy-crawlies

that want to bite you
and give you various diseases.

McIntosh: The weather
really doesn't bother me,

and especially when you see
people in walker costumes,

who are much hotter
than I ever would be.

Had a bad day.

They'll turn me into a walker
next week, and then we'll see.

[Laughs]

Gurira: I had lived
in New York a long time,

so I was used to
heat and humidity,

but, you know,
Georgia takes it up a notch.

[Wind blowing]

Morgan:
There is no place on Earth

that is hotter
than Atlanta in August.

That being said,

is a zombie ever gonna get
my leather jacket off me?

-[Growls]
-[Grunts]

Hell no.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

Rick:
What's your name?

My friends used to
call me "Jesus."

Payne: I have as many clothes on
as possible

and as much facial hair
and hair on my head as possible

to make me a big, sweaty mess
at the end of every day.

[Insects buzzing]
We like to be miserable.

Huth:
If we're not miserable, we're
not making "The Walking Dead."

It's -- It's just part of it.

If we happen to shoot indoors
and there's air-conditioning,

it just --
it doesn't feel right to me.

James: It's an equalizer,

and everybody has to work
in it, not least our crew.

A lot of it is about making sure
they can make it through,

and if they can make it through,
we sure as hell can.

[Grunts]

The fact that,
for six months a year,

we're all together
outside of Atlanta

bonds us more closely

than anything
I've ever worked on before.

Lincoln: The crew
are the heart of the show now

because they have so many other
people who've come and gone,

and there's a sort of unity
and a real strength.

And I realize that
I make the show for them
just as much as myself.

Huth:
We get a script, and we're like,
"Okay, this one's impossible.

We're not gonna make it."
And somehow we do.

This is a little bit different.
The camera's going to pan.

And that's really a credit
to the crew, because they --

they don't just
show up to work.

They're very, very proud to be
the crew of "The Walking Dead,"

and it shows.

The first day
I came on the set,

this guy came up to me
and said,

"Hi. I'm Rick Brown.
I'm a key grip."

I believe I said, "Hi. I love
you, and I'm glad you're here."

That's exactly
what he said.

Toughest thing about the job --
we're in the woods a lot,

so maneuvering
into the deep forest

and not having a paved road
to get to it

is probably our toughest thing.

-Go home.
-Let go!

Just leave!

[Panting]

[Walker growling]

[Women scream]

We definitely have
the best crew.

This is the probably
the best job ever.

There. Got it.

Do I love working on it?
I'm still here.

"The Walking Dead" crew.

My job involves
all the effects of nature --

wind, rain, snow,

anything to do with steam
or smoke or explosions.

McBride: They genuinely
have the best attitude.

Some of them
have to drive 40 minutes

to get home to go to sleep.

They really
are like superheroes.

Never give up. You keep going.

McIntosh:
It's a very fast-moving set.

There's always excitement
around the corner.

Just walking over here
for this interview,

I almost walked into a herd...

[Laughing]
coming at me, of walkers.

Wouldn't you like
to eat with the zombies?

Wasner: We got 30 zombies
in makeup. We got a dog.

We're gonna have him
take a dog leg, rip it off.

We got brisket stuff
stuffed in there.

And, anyways, she's gonna get
this girl biting and eating it

and hopefully
digesting some dog.

Sometimes we have night shoots,

and we start, you know,
at 6:00 in the evening

and work until the sun comes up,
but it's all fun.

This is the family that
we really like to work with.

People really love
making this show.

It is the greatest
summer camp on Earth.

Mark.

The flow is real easy.

[Panting]

Lori, there's two walkers
after my baby!

Everybody does their job,

and everything comes together
when we call "action."

Action!

Kang: I get excited about
exploring the different sets.

It always gives
all of us writers ideas

about, you know, "Oh, here's
this really cool part of the set

that hasn't been seen yet,"

or, "Here's something
that's underutilized."

It always sparks idea.

It's just really different from
seeing blueprints or photos.

Gives you a sense
of the living space.

Huth: Every department --
props, hair, makeup, wardrobe --

everybody that has go to into
figuring out how we're gonna

have these characters
interacting with zombies

and all these things
we have to figure out --

it's -- it's an
incredible process.

We make magic in eight days.

-I appreciate you, man.
-I appreciate you, too.

That says it all.
That says it all.

I'm gonna bust out crying.

♪

♪

-Thank you, Your Majesty.
-For what?

For being
such a cool dude.

There's nothing
like heat, humidity, mud,

and fake zombie guts
to glue you all together.

-[Growls]
-[Screams]

Breckenridge: These characters
are constantly fighting

for survival every day,

and so you become very close
to them in that way,

because you're really fighting
for your lives together.

-[Grunts]
-[Man laughs]

I've never experienced
anything like that.

People started, like,
fighting, pulling on hair.

"Oh, your family
doesn't do that?"

Get on your feet, before
I have to kick your teeth in.

That's my family.

It was unlike a family in that
everybody was really cool.

James: It's a bond that we're
about a commitment to the work.

And it's effortless,
and it's genuine,

and it goes from the top down.

-We're staying.
-Just the three of us?

Satrazemis: I think it's tough
watching so many actors

being brought into the show

and the level that the other
actors are operating on.

And they first kind of
have walked in, settled down,

looked around, and went,
"Is this (bleep) real?

Is somebody gonna hit me?"

Dad!

What started as excitement
became abject terror

by the time
I landed in Atlanta...

-Help me! Help my boy!
-Inside.

...because I became
such a fan of the show.

I need my full kit.

As soon as I arrived in Georgia,
I was so welcomed,

and I knew I was sort of
in the bosom of family.

I'm responsible.

I ain't gonna sit here while
this fella takes this on alone.

We'll see you
out there, brother.

Marquand:
It was intimidating at first,

but that stress
kind of dissipated
as soon as I met Andy.

"I am dead"
and "We're assholes."

That's so smart.
Who did this?

All the fear just kind of
went away like that.
[Snaps fingers]

You need anything,
you call me.

I don't -- [Sighs]
We don't have phones.

I-I meant --
I'm four houses down.

Thank you.

In my first shot,
we were wrangling pigs.

[Pigs snorting]

Hah! Come on!
Come on! Come on!

Payton:
I looked over at Lennie.

I said, "Lennie,
it's my first shot, man."

And he said,
"Welcome to the family."

And we were off and running.

[Pigs snorting and squealing]

Been running ever since.

[Snorting and squealing stops]
Well done, Richard.

We say that it's "TWD" family,
and we mean it in truth.

[Indistinct conversations,
growling]

Sasha, honey,
what's your favorite meal?

And a lot of it has to do
with Andrew Lincoln.

That man
is an example of a leader,

if there ever was one.

Together. Keep moving.
Come on.

Lincoln: We were very fortunate
in that first season,

and I think we set the tone
there in that ensemble

of this attitude of,
"Even if you're off-camera,

you work harder
for the other actor."

-[Growls]
-[Screams]

[Grunting]

♪

The hardest part
about being on that show

is -- is seeing people leave.

Gimple:
So, it's a fictional program,

but there are these
real-world consequences.

Liar.

-No!
-Aah!

No!

Ultimately, up to me, and so
I have to take responsibility

for those creative choices

and have difficult conversations
with people.

Good. Get rid of them all.
It's more lunch for me.

No. Uh...
It -- It's -- It's rough.

I mean, I've always said
it's like real life.

You always feel like
you have more time with people.

Down. Now.

McIntosh:
There's nothing like this show.

There's nothing like knowing

that you can get killed off
at any time.

We can make
another deal.

Aah! [Groaning]

But it just keeps you in the
present, like life, you know?

I did not want to be
killed off of that show.

I really didn't.

[Screams]

we can all relate to --
to that kind of struggle.

Sometimes, you don't get to
choose family anymore.

And that can be painful,
and it can be beautiful,

but it's -- it's a process
and it's raw.

It sucks. Profoundly.

Negan:
Anybody says anything,

cut the boy's other eye out
and feed it to his father...

Huth:
Everybody shows up knowing

they're gonna get
killed off this show.

[Screams]

You know, it's just
part of the way it works.

-Back to it.
-[Grunts]

Gurira:
To lose so many cast members
that you get to see every day --

You know, like, they were right
there next to you every day.

No exceptions! [Grunts]

[Panting]

Morgan: Some people --
(bleep) Let's kill them.

But, you know,
someone like Sonequa --

you hate leaving them,

hate not having them
on the show.

You're not gonna believe
this crap.

[Growling]
Holy goddamn!

♪

[Gunfire]

Huth: We all bargain. There's
a little bit of bargaining

that goes on for everybody
of like,

"Why? Wouldn't this make sense?
And what about this?"

And, you know,
Andy is notorious for that.

I think Andy has tried
to save every single actor

that has ever been on this show.

It's most beautiful job.
It's the most painful job.

You're all already dead.

The bonus is, I get to meet most

of the Screen Actors Guild
of America doing this job.

The sad thing is
I'm still here.

[Chuckling]
You know, they get to --

It's a catch-and-release
program,

but I'm apparently the guy
catching and releasing.

They're here!
Huth: We always have to

remind ourselves, like,
"Nobody's actually dying."

They're fine. They're
going on to the next thing,

but our -- our little bubble
shifts and changes.

And it sucks.

-[Crying]
-Just look at the flowers.

There is no way to prepare

for the loss of a cast member,

although we try to prepare

by having our death dinner.

Suppose any time a large number

of cast members walked
into a restaurant in Atlanta,

they were saying,
"Which one of them died?"

[Laughs]

The thing that
I don't like is that --

that the cast
is completely non-supportive

about the situation
that's going on here.

Rooker: I did have --
I-I had a death dinner.

-[Growling]
-[Grunting]

To be perfectly honest,
it was very boring.

I thought
we were gonna have shots.

I thought we were gonna really
do a good fare-thee-well.

Martin-Green:
Of course, the death dinner

that is nearest and dearest
to my heart is my own.

The love that was exchanged

and the words
that were spoken --

I'll carry them with me forever.

McIntosh:
And we all get together
and celebrate that person

and send them off on their way
to new adventures.

Lincoln: We're all going out
the same way, I'm afraid.

And to see friends
and loved ones

and people you care about go
is agony,

but it is a part of life --
death.

Are we celebrating the show?

Because I'm bringing the show
right down here.

♪

You and Daryl --
that's your big plan?

Lincoln: See, I'm working a lot
more with Norman this year,

which the fans, I suppose,
will be happy about,

but it means
I have to work twice as hard,

'cause I have to
learn his lines for him.

You know, Andy's become
like my best buddy.

Like, I love that guy.

Everything he does
is really annoying, actually.

He's always been the
"actor's quarterback."

He's always been the one
that gets everybody going.

His hair.
His beautiful hair.

He's just a super-generous guy.

And his little twirly --
little --

only a little bit of sort of
a goatee that he can grow --

It's taken him eight years, and
that's all he's come up with.

All the success
that's happened to him --

he couldn't have --
it couldn't have happened

to a -- a better guy, you know?

I hope they kill him off
this year.

Actually, he's an asshole.
[Chuckles]

[Indistinct conversations]

He does all this weird stuff
all the time,

like, you know,
gets all serious.

He's like, "Da-da-da-da-da,
da-da-da-da-da."

He does all this weird crap.
I don't know what he's doing.

[Indistinct conversations]

I love their friendship.
It's so funny. It's great stuff.

And JDM is all up in there, too,
now. It's very, very funny.

So I'm looking forward to seeing
what they do to each other next.

The three of us have a --

I'm very lucky to have come
into this show so late

and be embraced and loved

by the likes of -- of Andy
and Norman the way I have.

[Laughter]

I've known Jeff
for like 20 years.

I-I've known him from
way before we did this show.

Clean that up.

So, he and I are
really good friends,

and we ride motorcycles
everywhere,

and we talk on the phone
all the time.

I can talk to them every night
about whatever is going on

in my personal life or the show.

And so to have
that kind of friendship...

with guys that didn't
necessarily have to bring me

into the fold
is a pretty special deal.

Reedus:
And it's the same with Andy,
and Andy's and I friendship

started on this show
and grew this way.

The amount of crazy stuff
that happens on a daily basis

around this show --
I just kind of giggle.

I haven't been pranked yet,
but I know it's probably coming.

I know the last time Andy
tried to get at Norman

was last year at Comic-Con
with -- with the glitter bombs.

[Beep]
[Laughter]

The prank war is --

It's sort of become

sort of a matter of honor
and -- and pride.

I think it's more of
an American thing,

because Andy's
a bit too British.

I-It's just not in our nature
to -- to do that kind of --

Like, we, like, play jokes
and, like, you know, wordplay --

like, clever British humor
and all that kind of stuff.

I don't know.
It started in Japan.

-We're big fans of Japan.
-Yeah.

Thank you very much.

Do you want to practice
your lines I taught you?

-[Speaking Japanese]
-Cheers.

It's great to be here.

Can I just --
Can I tell you something?

That doesn't mean
what you think.

Oh, you son of a (bleep)

And it ended with glitter
bouncing in his own face.

-It's still going, dude.
-[Laughs]

How much did you
(bleep) put in here?

Stuck so much in there.

It's an intricate game
they're playing.

I sometimes have thought
of jumping in,

but I'm like, "I don't think
I could hang, you know?"

I think I'd -- I'd call "uncle"
real fast, you know?

I'd be like, "Have mercy on me."

I would never do it.
I'm too scared to get involved

because I would just end up
with egg on my face, so...

-Great.
-What does it mean?

-What does it mean?
-It means, "Where's the toilet?"

-[Laughs]
You son of a (bleep)

So I think after that,
he just --

He's just waving the white towel
at this point.

Woman: He keeps saying that
to the waiter, like...

[Laughter]

Ohh! [Groaning]

Carl!

Carl!

James: There is a drinking game,
which is basically

every time Andy says "Carl,"
you have to take a drink.

And in some episodes,

I'd imagine people
get really, really drunk.

Carl. Carl! Carl!!

Payton: It's got to start
with a shake of a head.

"Carl."

"Carl!"

"Coral! Coral!"

"Carl!"

"Carl?"
Is that how he says it?

-Carl!
-"Coral."

-"Curl! Curl!"
-"Coral."

"We're gonna fight
this thing together!

Everybody! Corl!
You, too, Corl!"

-Dad!
-Carl!

McIntosh: It's so awful.

I mean, Andy says "Coral"

just the way that anyone else
would say "Coral."

He's gotten better about it,

but in Season 4,
that's when it was really bad.

He had all these, like,
crazy prosthetics on.

-Carl! Carl!
-[Crying]

The funny thing is,
he's very protective of it.

Like, he gets very, like,

"Don't be messing with me
about how I say 'Coral.'"

It's terrible.

It's like a bad impression
of a man

doing a bad impression
of an American accent.

I have too much fun
when he does it his way.

I mean, it's one of the enjoy--
one of the --

one of the many enjoyments
that we have here on set

is when he yells, "Coral!"

Carl, go.

[Gravelly voice] "Carl. Carl."

"Carl."

"Carl!"

"Coral."

I'm not gonna do it.
[Laughs]

"Carl."

"Coral!"

[Gasping]
C-Carl.

W-Where's Carl?

A-After eight years, you'd think
he'd try to work on it,

but I think he's just, like --
he's given up.

Sometimes his accent
will slip a little bit...

Carl's gonna be all right.

...and there will be, like,

a little British thing to it,

and then, sometimes, he makes
these faces where he's like --

he's like --
he looks like he's confused,

which I really like.

To save Carl's life, I would've
done anything -- anything.

For the record, C-a-r-l.
[Chuckles]

That's 'cause, for every other
character, it's "Carl."

[Laughter]

If they could have called him
"Jason,"

it would have been ideal.

Why did they (bleep)
call him "Carl"?

[Gasping]
Carl...keep walking.

"Robert" would have been
perfect, yeah.

"Bobby," yeah.

Thanks, Kirkman.

Carl!

♪

♪

[Dramatic music plays]

[Walkers growling]

♪

[Music intensifies]

All: "The Walking Dead"!

[All cheer]

Breckenridge:
"The Walking Dead" fans

are so very passionate
in the most awesome ways,

and then, sometimes, in the most
frightening [chuckles] of ways.

Ohh! Ohh!
[Groaning]

Ohh! Ohh!

We wouldn't have this show
if it wasn't for the fans.

[Crowd screaming]

Are they passionate?
Yeah, they're passionate.

I've been bitten.

People's pets
are named after me.

This girl showed me a picture

of her baby that was just born
and named it "Reedus."

Little ass-kicker.

[Walker growling]

Gilliam: Mostly,
what I get a lot of

are crocheted little
Father Gabriel dolls,

and I'm not sure why.

[Squishes]
[Grunts]

[Growling]

Dolls here and there of --
of Carl,

Carl merchandise, a lot of
pudding -- get a lot of pudding.

Breckenridge:
I received a severed finger.

[Laughing] Not a real severed
finger -- a fake severed finger.

[Cheers and applause]

Melinda: I'm Melinda Gray,
and I'm a super fan.

I make a few items,
"Walking Dead"-related --

the "Bite me" grease rags,

like the ones that Daryl carries
in his pocket.

You can't see yourself.
We can.

Then we do the Lucilles

that have the bullet in them,
and they're real wood.

This is Lucille,
and she is awesome.

I never thought
I would be making bats

with blood on them, no.

The creativity of the fans
is amazing.

I think it's my favorite --
when I see what they have done,

what they've built,
what they've created.

I was a huge fan
of "The Walking Dead,"

and I just wanted to paint
something like a zombie

or a-a character of the show
or something.

The strangest ones are tattoos.

People scarring their bodies,
um [Laughing] for the show

is, uh -- is a new thing.

♪

A woman came up to me
the day before my first episode.

I am King Ezekiel.
Welcome.

She pulled up her pant leg.

[Growls]

My entire body sitting on
that throne all over her thigh.

Darling, I hope I haven't
disappointed you.

[Growls]
They are our guests.

You know, the doctor was about
to put me under,

and he's like, "So, who dies?"

[Growls]

Don't hurt my little girl.

And I, like,
totally told him off.

I'm like, "Not the time.
Not the time."

No!

Scott:
My name is Robert Scott.

I am Dr. Eugene Porter
of the Human Genome Project.

[Bell dings]
Eugene brings the sex, right?

[Laughs] Yeah.
[Laughs]

Chris Twellmann.

People know me
as "German Abraham."

[Bell dings]

A few years ago,
I've quit my job in Germany,

moved to the States,
and here I am.

I live
my [chuckles] dream.

Melissa Coppage.

I'm the manager
of The Woodbury Shoppe,

where they film
"The Walking Dead."

"Walking Dead" fans
are like no other.

It is a family.

Ben's my brother,
and Nicole is my wife,

and interesting enough,
we actually met

through the love
of "The Walking Dead."

She saw me at a convention,
dressed as The Governor.

And she had come down from
Canada with her ex at the time,

and, uh, that's --
that's how we met.

Yes, I did.
[Laughter]

Downstairs, we have a museum,

and we have some relics
from the show --

Daryl's bike, the chair --

the dentist's chair
that Andrea met her demise in.

[Growling]

And the cast have all signed
the walls,

and they've all weathered pretty
well, except for maybe Norman's.

We're suspecting, possibly,
people are licking it.

I don't know. But it's fading,
and it's the only one.

I should get, like, flavored
ink pens, if that's the case.

Payne: One of the best things
about being on the show

is that you can make people
smile

by meeting them
and just saying "hi"

and shaking their hand
or giving them a hug and stuff.

That's such an amazing thing.

[Cheers and applause]

The fan experience is gratifying
because the show is so big,

but the experiences feel
so personal.

I'm really glad that, sometimes,
the show can offer that.

Fan mail that I get
from Carol fans is so inspiring

because I get stories
of men and women...

I just have the car.

...who survived
abusive relationships,

and Carol, uh,
inspired them to...leave.

[Voice breaking]
It doesn't have to be this way.

You can turn back,
and you can go home.

Nobody has to get hurt.

It's looking like
someone's gotta get hurt.

And it inspires me to -- to get
even closer to who Carol is.

[Crying] Don't, please!

[Gunfire]

[Gunfire stops]

[Clicking]

I'm okay.

Marquand:
More often than not, just,
you know, it's an acting gig,

and you go and you do your job
as best you can,

but when young men and women
come to me and say,

"You helped me come out
to my parents.

You are the reason why

I was able to fully, uh,
embrace my sexuality."

You were worried,
weren't you?

Yeah.

I don't think I've ever had
that sort of satisfaction

as an actor, ever in my life.

Well, that's -- it --
that's what it is.

It's -- It's just
a really special relationship

between the show and the fans.

♪

♪

You're okay?
I'm okay.

The baby's okay --

all of us.

♪

Huth: Almost none of them knew
each other in the beginning,

and yet, they are family.

They have this closeness
and this will to survive that,

I think, back then -- you look
at some of those characters

and think, "Oh, they're never
gonna make it."

Negrete:
You know, looking back from
episode 1 until episode 100,

just to see how different
the show is

and how the characters that
are still around have changed --

it really feels like
it's been a remarkable journey.

[Grunts]

You know, I think Daryl's
had a crazy evolution

of -- of how he started out
and who he was in the beginning

and -- and who he is now.

You got something
you want to tell me?

Your brother was a danger
to us all,

so I handcuffed him on a roof,
hooked him to a piece of metal.

And you left him there?!

Reedus: I played, you know, the
first, you know, four seasons

with this chip on my shoulder

and wouldn't really, like,
look at people and...

[Grunts]

God.
Are you all right?

Just leave me be!

He wasn't proud of who he was.
Stupid bitch.

He wasn't proud
of where he came from.

He wasn't proud
of his big brother.

Where you going?
Back where I belong!

♪

He basically was gonna be
his big brother at the end,

and, uh -- and through the
course of playing on the show,

his dynamic changed
within the group

and his character changed
on the show.

People started to rely on him,
and he kind of became a man.

♪

How are you feeling?

♪

About as good as I look.

♪

I brought you some dinner.
You must be starving.

Gurira:
You get to see characters evolve

in really clear, distinct,
powerful, human ways.

And you get to see
your colleagues,

uh, get to explore that.

You did more
for my little girl today

than her own daddy ever did
in his whole life.

♪

Huth:
Carol, most definitely, I think,

has probably
had one of the biggest

of who she was in the beginning
and who she is now.

Yeah, I told Albert I
want the kid's hat after
they bleed him out.

You keep your finger off
the button and drop it.

McBride: I am proud of the role
that I'm playing.

I'm proud of the role that the
writers have written for Carol.

The men they pulled from that
train car -- where are they?

♪

[Screaming]

Where are they?!
[Groans]

[Chuckles]

Huth: I don't think
there's a single character

that you can go back
to the beginning and say,

"Oh, you're the same person."

You know, they would
all react differently now

to situations they had
back then.

Negan: Rick, I want you
to take your ax...

cut your son's left arm off,
right on that line.

Now, I know.

You're gonna have to
process that for a second.

That makes sense.

Still, though,
I'm gonna need you to do it,

or all these people
are gonna die.

Morgan:
Last year was about Negan

kind of pulling the rug out
from underneath Rick

and -- and showing him
who the boss was.

1.
[Sobbing]

[Sobs]

Dad...
just do it.

[Sobbing]

Rick. Rick.

[Breathing heavily]

Rick. Rick. Rick.

You answer to me.
You belong to me.

Lincoln: You've got to go
somewhere to get somewhere.

You needed to see that
this person be demolished

in order to sort of work out
how he rebuilds.

Put it down!
Put the gun down!

He started as the visible
embodiment of law and order.

Negan: Jee-hee-sus!

Is that you, Rick,
underneath all that man-bush?

They're dead so my family...
I would not have messed
with that guy.

He's been beaten and
bent out of shape by pain...

But that's not
you anymore...

is it?

...and the horrors
of this, uh, new landscape.

Please, take it.

And I think that the show
was always intended

to be about change and how human
beings are infinitely adaptable.

[Grunts]
[Gunshot]

But they adapt to environments,

and, sometimes,
those adaptations

are cruel and calcifying...

[Crying]

...and ugly, uh, and brutal.

[Grunts]

Aah!

No!

The thing that I love about the
show is that there's still hope.

I told you already --

I'm gonna kill you.

All of you.

♪

You're all already dead.

I think the end of 7,
we saw Rick kind of...

become Rick again,
and now, in Season 8,

it is -- it's balls to the wall.

♪

[Weapon cocks]

♪

[Growls]

[Growling]

This day,
we begin to reshape this world.

The damned are upon us!

[Growls]

It's mayhem.

[Gunfire]
I don't die.

♪

Ohh, Season 8 is bananas.

[Growls]

[Growls]

[Gunfire]

It's what the audience,
I think, deserves.

♪

Fighting and falling.

[Grunting]

Maggie: I've been fighting
since the farm.

Can't stop now.

♪

Doing a lot of gunfire
[chuckling] and a lot of,

you know, just craziness.

♪

It's just so much action.

You know, obviously,
we're going into war with Negan.

It's pretty amazing.

I-I just want to acknowledge
that it's taken 100 episodes

for Rick Grimes to come up
with a good plan.

Ladies and gentlemen,
he has one.

♪

We need a win.

[Engine revs]

♪

Kirkman: You know,
it means the world to me

to see it get to 100 episodes,

because it is a -- it's
a really personal story for me,

and it's something
that I really love doing

and something
that I really care about.

And to get to 100 episodes,

it means that the audience
loves it as much as I do

and cares about it
as much as I do.

So, to get that kind of
overwhelming support

from the fan base
that has allowed it to last

for as many years as it's lasted
to reach this milestone

is -- is a really big deal.

♪