"Having to wait an entire year to even get started was kind of crazy," Payton said. Last fall, AMC announced the final season will have an extended 24 episodes in addition to adding six bonus episodes to season 10.Īt the time, Kang told Insider the 30 final episodes would more or less play as two final seasons of the show. The pandemic threw off the shooting schedule for the series, which, in theory, should have premiered its 11th season last fall. "I just didn't realize that it would be of the show itself, which was shocking." I was sure that there was a demise of some kind coming," Payton continued. "Both of them needing to be on the phone to talk to me about something. "I remember I was getting a call from both Angela Kang and Scott Gimple, and half the time when you're getting a phone call from just one of your two showrunners, it's about the demise of your character," Payton, who has played Ezekiel since season seven, told Insider over the phone in August. Khary Payton said he's "putting off the sadness and the tears" for now since they'll still be shooting "TWD" for awhile. "I was more thinking like, 'How does it end? Do we all die in slow motion? Do we find a cure? Do they just nuke us from space? Like what happens?'" Reedus said of wondering how they'll wrap up the series. Reedus said he immediately had a bunch of questions after learning the news. "I think I immediately called Melissa ," Reedus said. Reedus said he was instructed to not tell anyone else that the show was ending.
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Since the show's main star Andrew Lincoln departed the series in late 2018, Reedus has become one of the show's primary leads. Reedus has played Daryl Dixon, an original character separate from "TWD" comics, since the show's first season. And this is happening.' And I was like, 'What did everybody else say?' They said, 'We haven't called anybody else yet." "And they're like, 'Oh yeah, this is happening. "I was like, 'What are you talking about?'" Reedus continued. Zoom of where he was when he learned "TWD" was ending.
"I was sitting in the backyard under an orange tree sitting in the dirt with my daughter, peeling an orange and got the call," Reedus recently told Insider over Reedus told Insider he was peeling an orange with his daughter when he found out "TWD" was ending.
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