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LINCOLN I didn’t know that was the response. I’m truly actually upset to listen to that. No, it’s what it’s. I believe that’s truthful, as a result of it was a cliffhanger. I don’t suppose it was a satisfying finale. If I had walked off into the sundown and been bitten, there would have been some closure to it, after which individuals may transfer on. It wasn’t simple to depart. But Rick Grimes has been although some stuff, man. And typically there’s a level the place it’s a must to go, OK, the place else can we go along with this?
GURIRA OK, high-quality, he may have died. But I believe there was one thing very cool about him not dying. And the subsequent episode was set six years later, and I believed that was incredible. And then they’ve obtained a five-year-old son, and that’s nice storytelling too — oh snap, she was pregnant! I like the way it was completed, truly.
Danai, how did the present change after Andrew left?
LINCOLN It obtained rather a lot higher.
GURIRA No. It was onerous, it was very onerous. It did change dynamics. We stayed a household and we stayed linked, however you possibly can positively really feel the absence. I liked the storytelling that I obtained to do — Michonne’s perception that Rick was nonetheless on the market, and the concept of being a full-out mom with two children. There was all these items for me to play with, but it surely was within the presence of his absence.
Andrew, what it was like for you after leaving? Did you retain up with the present in any respect?
GURIRA No, he couldn’t care much less.
LINCOLN It was a really unusual decompression. I used to be completely exhausted. It felt very monastic, doing this day after day, ensuring we didn’t drop a scene, that we obtained it proper. I felt just like the C.E.O. of a conglomerate, which isn’t the job I signed up for. Those had been the obligations that got here with this juggernaut of a present. Press requests and issues should not my pure factor.
You additionally had this monumental fandom to cope with.
LINCOLN It was fairly surreal to stroll out in entrance of 10,000 individuals, and half of them are dressed such as you and the opposite half have tattoos of your face on them. I’m fairly quiet. I might return and retreat to the countryside and stroll my canines and be at dwelling and cook dinner meals and be a glorified Uber driver for my youngsters. There was floor to make up. It was a life selection. I like performing with a ardour. But I additionally love not performing.
