The Walking Dead killed a lot of people when it aired. Some deaths were deserved, some seemed unfair, some were kind of funny, but few of them stuck in the minds of the show’s audience as much as they did watching Glenn by Steven Yeun die. Like in the comics, Glenn is beaten to death with Negan’s spiked baseball bat, and it was a pretty big event at the time, so much so that a Arkansas newspaper In fact, he published an obituary about her a few days later.
Some people left the show once he was eliminated, and even former lead actor Andrew Lincoln admitted that the show may have crossed a line with Glenn. Empire Magazine Of his time on the show, he said that was when the show “exaggerated the omelette. (That death) maybe went on too long.” Filming the death itself was also pretty intense, he added, especially for Negan actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Lincoln recalled Morgan giving a monologue in front of everyone and being “one of the most obnoxious characters (on the show).” As the other actors were tied up on their knees and crying, Morgan asked him if that was normal, to which Rick Grimes, played by Lincoln, confirmed: “Yeah, everybody’s still going.”
There was a lot of fury Glenn’s Death at the time, not helped by the fact that he had had a fake death a few episodes earlier. You know the story after that: Lincoln left the show a few seasons later (he and Yeun both returned for the series finale, either through archival material or newly shot footage), and eventually returned for the recent miniseries Those who live. Yeun, meanwhile, continued to direct projects like NoBeef, And Invincible, and was going to be at some point the Sentinel in the Love at first sight movie before bow down. Yet it hasn’t been that long since the original Walking Dead The show is over, so it’s unlikely anyone will forget Glenn’s ending anytime soon.
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