1 00:00:07,575 --> 00:00:08,942 [soft piano music] 2 00:00:09,843 --> 00:00:11,445 - I didn't know it would last this long. 3 00:00:11,545 --> 00:00:13,581 I had no idea. 4 00:00:13,681 --> 00:00:16,117 - It's been so freeing to create this world 5 00:00:16,216 --> 00:00:17,818 and to live in this world for this long. 6 00:00:17,918 --> 00:00:19,520 * 7 00:00:19,620 --> 00:00:24,024 - It's just a really special bond that we have. 8 00:00:25,126 --> 00:00:27,195 - We didn't have nearly as large of a cast back then, 9 00:00:27,295 --> 00:00:30,364 so it was a much smaller ragtag group of people 10 00:00:30,464 --> 00:00:32,433 who were there all the time. 11 00:00:32,533 --> 00:00:34,868 - It was just us in the woods 12 00:00:34,968 --> 00:00:37,238 as a family just kicking butt. 13 00:00:38,306 --> 00:00:40,541 - I wasn't really 100% sure 14 00:00:40,641 --> 00:00:44,645 how the general public would take it. 15 00:00:46,547 --> 00:00:48,282 - We never dreamed that there would be 16 00:00:48,382 --> 00:00:50,351 this kind of response to this show. 17 00:00:50,451 --> 00:00:53,020 [cheers and applause] 18 00:00:53,121 --> 00:00:55,055 - 21 million people a week 19 00:00:55,156 --> 00:00:57,558 watching your show at the height of it. 20 00:00:57,658 --> 00:01:00,861 - I thought that I would be fine, prepared. 21 00:01:00,961 --> 00:01:02,996 I fucking was not. 22 00:01:03,097 --> 00:01:05,866 - Because it was like jumping on a moving train. 23 00:01:05,966 --> 00:01:10,371 - You will not be able to talk about the history of television 24 00:01:10,471 --> 00:01:14,074 without talking about AMC's "The Walking Dead." 25 00:01:14,175 --> 00:01:15,909 - I love that I get to be a part of something 26 00:01:16,009 --> 00:01:18,446 that meant so much to people. 27 00:01:20,514 --> 00:01:21,914 - For all the skepticism 28 00:01:22,015 --> 00:01:24,318 about whether a zombie show could work on TV, 29 00:01:24,418 --> 00:01:26,053 it kind of blew everyone away 30 00:01:26,154 --> 00:01:29,056 as to what could be done with the genre. 31 00:01:29,157 --> 00:01:31,459 It felt very special from the beginning. 32 00:01:33,127 --> 00:01:34,662 - How do you bring a story like this 33 00:01:34,762 --> 00:01:38,699 to a conclusion that is worth the legacy 34 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:40,601 of what this show is? 35 00:01:40,701 --> 00:01:42,170 - What do we want to give people? 36 00:01:42,270 --> 00:01:43,737 Why have they been with us this long? 37 00:01:43,837 --> 00:01:45,539 And how do we honor that? 38 00:01:45,639 --> 00:01:47,241 - The goal from the beginning was, make it as big 39 00:01:47,341 --> 00:01:50,110 and make it as impressive as we possibly can. 40 00:01:50,811 --> 00:01:53,045 - It's just gonna be crazy, man. 41 00:01:53,146 --> 00:01:55,015 - Have I thought about the end? Yeah. 42 00:01:55,115 --> 00:01:57,751 Kind of breaks my heart, to be honest. 43 00:01:57,851 --> 00:01:59,387 - We're gonna see 44 00:01:59,487 --> 00:02:02,756 a bit of the OG "Walking Dead" return. 45 00:02:02,856 --> 00:02:05,058 - Get ready. It's gonna be bloody. 46 00:02:05,159 --> 00:02:06,426 [laughs] 47 00:02:06,527 --> 00:02:09,663 * 48 00:02:11,832 --> 00:02:12,900 - So we ready to roll? 49 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,868 - I'll have you introduce yourself, 50 00:02:14,968 --> 00:02:17,971 uh, and kind of tell me what your job is on the show. 51 00:02:18,071 --> 00:02:19,307 - Hi. I'm Tom Luse. 52 00:02:19,407 --> 00:02:21,542 I'm an executive producer on "The Walking Dead" 53 00:02:21,642 --> 00:02:23,043 and part of the producing team. 54 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:24,878 - I'm Denise Huth, and I'm one 55 00:02:24,978 --> 00:02:26,780 of the executive producers on "The Walking Dead." 56 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:28,282 - My name is Scott Gimple. 57 00:02:28,382 --> 00:02:31,752 I am the chief content officer of "The Walking Dead" universe. 58 00:02:31,852 --> 00:02:33,221 - My name is Angela Kang, 59 00:02:33,321 --> 00:02:35,989 and I am the showrunner of "The Walking Dead." 60 00:02:36,089 --> 00:02:37,758 - My name is Gregory Paul Nicotero, 61 00:02:37,858 --> 00:02:39,460 March 15, 1963, 62 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,295 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 63 00:02:41,395 --> 00:02:43,897 - Yeah, I've been here basically longer than anybody. 64 00:02:43,997 --> 00:02:46,300 [laughing] So I know it all. 65 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,837 [dramatic music] 66 00:02:49,937 --> 00:02:52,440 - For any of us that started on the show early enough, 67 00:02:52,540 --> 00:02:55,609 I don't know that there were very many people who were like, 68 00:02:55,709 --> 00:02:57,611 "This could totally become a franchise." 69 00:02:57,711 --> 00:02:59,179 We were just like, "Well, this is the show, 70 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,915 "and we're gonna make the best version of this show 71 00:03:02,015 --> 00:03:06,086 that we can for as long as we're allowed to." 72 00:03:06,186 --> 00:03:08,922 - "The Walking Dead" has always been 73 00:03:09,022 --> 00:03:10,791 the greatest summer camp on Earth. 74 00:03:10,891 --> 00:03:13,527 That aspect of it, of us being in Senoia, 75 00:03:13,627 --> 00:03:15,663 this lovely little town, 76 00:03:15,763 --> 00:03:19,533 just doing our thing away from the world, 77 00:03:19,633 --> 00:03:22,436 there was a purity to that. 78 00:03:22,536 --> 00:03:24,204 - The expectations at the beginning 79 00:03:24,305 --> 00:03:27,408 were not that we were gonna become what we have become. 80 00:03:29,243 --> 00:03:30,278 - It's been interesting. 81 00:03:30,378 --> 00:03:32,179 I've done a lot of zombie movies. 82 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,482 I've never done a zombie school. 83 00:03:34,582 --> 00:03:36,884 So I thought that it was really good for me 84 00:03:36,984 --> 00:03:39,186 to be able to go through and kind of handpick 85 00:03:39,287 --> 00:03:41,622 the people that I really liked. 86 00:03:41,722 --> 00:03:43,724 For quite a while, we had talked 87 00:03:43,824 --> 00:03:48,962 about the idea of doing some sort of genre zombie show. 88 00:03:49,062 --> 00:03:50,063 And then, of course, 89 00:03:50,163 --> 00:03:51,332 "The Walking Dead" comes along, 90 00:03:51,432 --> 00:03:52,966 the comic book. 91 00:03:53,066 --> 00:03:55,536 - We first got the rights to the comic book 92 00:03:55,636 --> 00:03:57,204 way back in 2005 93 00:03:57,305 --> 00:04:00,408 and spent five years trying to get it made. 94 00:04:00,508 --> 00:04:02,410 And so AMC finally said yes, 95 00:04:02,510 --> 00:04:06,614 and we were able to shoot that first season in 2010. 96 00:04:07,948 --> 00:04:09,617 - Norman Reedus, take one. 97 00:04:13,186 --> 00:04:15,356 - There was so much care and thought 98 00:04:15,456 --> 00:04:17,757 that went into that original casting. 99 00:04:17,858 --> 00:04:19,427 You know, I remember being there 100 00:04:19,527 --> 00:04:22,363 for when Andy came and did a screen test 101 00:04:22,463 --> 00:04:23,831 and Bernthal and Sarah, 102 00:04:23,931 --> 00:04:26,400 and it just felt very special from the beginning. 103 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:28,336 It felt like this little kernel of something 104 00:04:28,436 --> 00:04:30,704 that could be amazing and we wanted to protect. 105 00:04:30,804 --> 00:04:32,005 - I won't do it. 106 00:04:32,105 --> 00:04:33,407 We can't just leave. 107 00:04:33,507 --> 00:04:35,843 - Carol, the group is split. 108 00:04:35,943 --> 00:04:37,578 We're scattered and weak. 109 00:04:37,678 --> 00:04:41,181 - What if she comes back and we're not here? 110 00:04:41,281 --> 00:04:42,616 Could happen. 111 00:04:42,716 --> 00:04:44,952 - If Sophia found her way back and we were gone, 112 00:04:45,052 --> 00:04:46,454 that would be awful. 113 00:04:46,554 --> 00:04:48,556 - I came to be a part of the show 114 00:04:48,656 --> 00:04:50,558 having done a film called "The Mist." 115 00:04:50,658 --> 00:04:53,193 And I think it was three years later 116 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:56,096 and totally unexpected. 117 00:04:56,196 --> 00:04:57,531 Got a phone call 118 00:04:57,631 --> 00:05:00,133 they had a role for me in "The Walking Dead." 119 00:05:00,233 --> 00:05:03,437 I had no idea what "The Walking Dead" was. 120 00:05:03,537 --> 00:05:05,072 I remember going to the comic store 121 00:05:05,172 --> 00:05:06,807 to find out what it was, 122 00:05:06,907 --> 00:05:10,210 and I opened the book, just some random page. 123 00:05:10,310 --> 00:05:11,879 And it was-- [growls] 124 00:05:11,979 --> 00:05:14,214 And I was like, "Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Well, I don't know. 125 00:05:14,314 --> 00:05:16,384 What am I getting myself into?" 126 00:05:16,484 --> 00:05:18,251 - I read the pilot. 127 00:05:18,352 --> 00:05:20,153 It seemed super honest. 128 00:05:20,253 --> 00:05:22,790 I didn't really read zombies into the pilot. 129 00:05:22,890 --> 00:05:24,825 I saw a man trying to find his family 130 00:05:24,925 --> 00:05:26,727 and being confused and worried. 131 00:05:26,827 --> 00:05:28,496 And it really struck with me. 132 00:05:28,596 --> 00:05:31,799 * 133 00:05:31,899 --> 00:05:32,900 - Dad! 134 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,902 Getting cast on the show was 135 00:05:35,002 --> 00:05:37,337 pretty fast and really exciting. 136 00:05:37,438 --> 00:05:39,440 They originally had said, "We're gonna bring you out 137 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:41,241 for a screen test with Steven Yeun." 138 00:05:41,341 --> 00:05:42,576 And then, like, a day later, they said, 139 00:05:42,676 --> 00:05:43,644 "Actually, we're gonna fly you to Georgia 140 00:05:43,744 --> 00:05:45,546 and you're gonna start filming." 141 00:05:46,714 --> 00:05:50,918 - It was just sort of the perfect work atmosphere. 142 00:05:51,018 --> 00:05:52,853 And everybody was very excited 143 00:05:52,953 --> 00:05:54,655 'cause we were going into an unknown. 144 00:05:54,755 --> 00:05:59,326 There wasn't a show quite like "The Walking Dead." 145 00:05:59,427 --> 00:06:01,028 Nobody knew what was going to become of it. 146 00:06:01,128 --> 00:06:04,598 We were aware that this would be a six-episode pilot. 147 00:06:04,698 --> 00:06:07,367 We didn't know if we would have another season. 148 00:06:07,468 --> 00:06:09,770 - There was no expectation of a season two. 149 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:12,640 So it sort of felt like, do whatever we gotta do 150 00:06:12,740 --> 00:06:15,776 and just get through those six episodes. 151 00:06:15,876 --> 00:06:19,379 - Our production budget and our crew size was modest. 152 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:24,518 We had very few resources to make the show. 153 00:06:24,618 --> 00:06:28,388 What we had were an amazingly dedicated team 154 00:06:28,489 --> 00:06:30,190 behind and in front of the camera. 155 00:06:30,290 --> 00:06:31,659 - A variety of different bloods. 156 00:06:31,759 --> 00:06:33,861 This is, like, our zombie blood. 157 00:06:33,961 --> 00:06:36,196 We have dark zombie blood, dressing blood, 158 00:06:36,296 --> 00:06:38,999 pumping blood, dark pumping blood, 159 00:06:39,099 --> 00:06:41,969 mouth blood, zombie mouth blood. 160 00:06:42,069 --> 00:06:43,837 I think six different kinds of blood? 161 00:06:43,937 --> 00:06:45,138 Something like that, yeah. 162 00:06:45,238 --> 00:06:47,374 - We shot on 16 millimeter film. 163 00:06:47,475 --> 00:06:50,911 We did almost all of our effects in camera 164 00:06:51,011 --> 00:06:54,715 and kind of embraced an old-school horror mentality 165 00:06:54,815 --> 00:06:59,252 that got me very excited about new ways of filmmaking. 166 00:06:59,352 --> 00:07:01,188 - Ooh. There we go. 167 00:07:01,288 --> 00:07:02,322 You know, it felt like 168 00:07:02,422 --> 00:07:04,024 a little feature, to be honest. 169 00:07:04,124 --> 00:07:05,092 It felt like a movie. 170 00:07:05,192 --> 00:07:06,894 Who are these people? 171 00:07:06,994 --> 00:07:08,896 It was the first thing I'd done 172 00:07:08,996 --> 00:07:11,398 with a group of actors 173 00:07:11,499 --> 00:07:13,333 that were 100% behind you. 174 00:07:13,433 --> 00:07:15,936 Everybody was in it to win it, 175 00:07:16,036 --> 00:07:17,738 and it was a family. 176 00:07:17,838 --> 00:07:20,941 - That whole ensemble feel 177 00:07:21,041 --> 00:07:23,677 was really laid down 178 00:07:23,777 --> 00:07:26,780 really nicely by Andy Lincoln. 179 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,782 - He was like a superb leader. 180 00:07:28,882 --> 00:07:31,519 - I want to make this as real, as harrowing, 181 00:07:31,619 --> 00:07:35,923 as raw, and as exciting as I can possibly do. 182 00:07:36,023 --> 00:07:38,258 I'm gonna give it my all. 183 00:07:38,358 --> 00:07:39,793 - Everybody really bonded like that. 184 00:07:39,893 --> 00:07:41,361 You know, we were away from Hollywood, 185 00:07:41,461 --> 00:07:43,631 away from our families. 186 00:07:43,731 --> 00:07:45,098 We were out here in the woods. 187 00:07:45,198 --> 00:07:47,167 It was just kind of our little bubble. 188 00:07:48,802 --> 00:07:51,071 - It's sort of the lure of the show, 189 00:07:51,171 --> 00:07:53,106 how the cast in those first few seasons-- 190 00:07:53,206 --> 00:07:54,575 you know, they never went to their trailers. 191 00:07:54,675 --> 00:07:55,808 They never weren't on set. 192 00:07:55,909 --> 00:07:57,210 It's just they came to set in the mornings, 193 00:07:57,310 --> 00:07:58,612 and that's where they were. 194 00:07:58,712 --> 00:08:02,415 - This is a segment called Hugs for Free. 195 00:08:02,516 --> 00:08:03,751 - No, no, no. 196 00:08:03,851 --> 00:08:05,819 - It felt very--almost student-film-ish in a way, 197 00:08:05,919 --> 00:08:07,387 but we had a better budget than that. 198 00:08:07,487 --> 00:08:08,656 [all exclaim] 199 00:08:08,756 --> 00:08:09,790 I mean, not great, but better. 200 00:08:09,890 --> 00:08:13,293 - Episode two in the can. - Yay! 201 00:08:13,393 --> 00:08:14,662 - A lot of people initially were like, 202 00:08:14,762 --> 00:08:15,996 "Oh, yeah, I don't really-- 203 00:08:16,096 --> 00:08:17,097 "it's a zombie show. 204 00:08:17,197 --> 00:08:18,599 It's not really my thing." 205 00:08:18,699 --> 00:08:19,933 And then word of mouth came out, 206 00:08:20,033 --> 00:08:22,970 and people would say, "It's not a zombie show. 207 00:08:23,070 --> 00:08:24,471 "There are zombies in it, 208 00:08:24,572 --> 00:08:27,307 "but that's not what it's about. 209 00:08:27,407 --> 00:08:28,776 This is a story about survival. 210 00:08:28,876 --> 00:08:30,944 This is a story about people banding together 211 00:08:31,044 --> 00:08:33,346 to fight against a greater common enemy. 212 00:08:33,446 --> 00:08:35,816 And that's how we fell in love with Daryl, 213 00:08:35,915 --> 00:08:39,352 you fell in love with Carol, you fell in love with Maggie, 214 00:08:39,452 --> 00:08:41,054 you fell in love with Rick. 215 00:08:41,154 --> 00:08:46,359 And that's when the show began to gain a lot of momentum. 216 00:08:46,459 --> 00:08:49,663 It was pretty fascinating what we were able to do. 217 00:08:49,763 --> 00:08:54,635 The fact that we were changing the rules of television 218 00:08:54,735 --> 00:08:57,337 and changing the rules of genre storytelling. 219 00:08:57,437 --> 00:09:01,008 I really do feel that "Walking Dead's" footprint 220 00:09:01,108 --> 00:09:04,511 has been emulated in so many shows since then, 221 00:09:04,612 --> 00:09:05,779 because up to that point, 222 00:09:05,879 --> 00:09:08,081 we'd never seen anything like it on TV. 223 00:09:09,783 --> 00:09:11,351 - I remember early on thinking, 224 00:09:11,451 --> 00:09:14,755 "This is absolutely phenomenal." 225 00:09:16,056 --> 00:09:19,760 Suddenly, people know who I am. 226 00:09:21,294 --> 00:09:26,433 And you realize this is kind of a big deal. 227 00:09:30,070 --> 00:09:31,538 - There was definitely a moment 228 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:35,242 when it felt a bit overwhelming that it had gotten so popular, 229 00:09:35,342 --> 00:09:37,210 and I remember Steven and I talking about it 230 00:09:37,310 --> 00:09:42,182 and kind of trying to find a way to process that-- 231 00:09:43,817 --> 00:09:45,753 That you were that interesting to people. 232 00:09:45,853 --> 00:09:49,089 - You know, the thing about the fandom 233 00:09:49,189 --> 00:09:52,059 and the popularity of the show, 234 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:54,895 we didn't really feel it till, like, season three 235 00:09:54,995 --> 00:09:58,398 or four because we were out here. 236 00:09:58,498 --> 00:10:00,367 We were so deep in it that we didn't 237 00:10:00,467 --> 00:10:02,502 really see the outside world. 238 00:10:02,602 --> 00:10:04,404 - It's pretty incredible to be a part 239 00:10:04,504 --> 00:10:07,407 of something that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. 240 00:10:07,507 --> 00:10:10,243 I feel so fortunate to have been 241 00:10:10,343 --> 00:10:12,079 a part of putting something together 242 00:10:12,179 --> 00:10:14,281 that resonated as much as this did. 243 00:10:14,381 --> 00:10:18,418 [cheers and applause] 244 00:10:18,518 --> 00:10:20,020 - It wasn't like we went to those fan events 245 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,521 and there was, like, 10 people, 246 00:10:21,621 --> 00:10:23,590 and then 100 people, and 1,000 people. 247 00:10:23,691 --> 00:10:25,893 We just went to them and there was 10,000 people, 248 00:10:25,993 --> 00:10:27,194 like, right off the bat. 249 00:10:27,294 --> 00:10:28,461 And it was like that everywhere. 250 00:10:28,561 --> 00:10:30,731 There were drones being flown around here, 251 00:10:30,831 --> 00:10:32,099 people trying to spy. 252 00:10:32,199 --> 00:10:34,067 There were people hiding in the woods. 253 00:10:34,167 --> 00:10:36,369 - I've never had an experience where I've gone somewhere 254 00:10:36,469 --> 00:10:38,038 or somebody's noticed or said anything 255 00:10:38,138 --> 00:10:40,073 when it hasn't been an emotional connection 256 00:10:40,173 --> 00:10:41,374 with a fan. 257 00:10:41,474 --> 00:10:44,778 And--and I just thought, "Yeah, 258 00:10:44,878 --> 00:10:47,080 because that's how we feel when we make it." 259 00:10:52,152 --> 00:10:54,988 [dramatic music] 260 00:10:55,088 --> 00:10:58,625 * 261 00:10:58,726 --> 00:11:01,061 - The thing that's interesting right now 262 00:11:01,161 --> 00:11:04,297 in terms of making people realize is, 263 00:11:04,397 --> 00:11:07,000 is that, you know, we're officially in prep 264 00:11:07,100 --> 00:11:09,602 for the last episode. 265 00:11:09,703 --> 00:11:11,271 It's not just an episode. 266 00:11:11,371 --> 00:11:13,606 - Walkers, everybody-- stunt walkers, 267 00:11:13,707 --> 00:11:16,744 everybody's gotta be full performance every time. 268 00:11:16,844 --> 00:11:18,511 No sleeping walkers. 269 00:11:18,611 --> 00:11:20,748 Every time, it's gotta be spot on, right? 270 00:11:25,052 --> 00:11:25,753 - So am I looking into-- 271 00:11:26,286 --> 00:11:27,420 - You look at me. 272 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:28,521 - Look at you? Great. 273 00:11:28,621 --> 00:11:30,123 - Well, they're also prescription. 274 00:11:30,223 --> 00:11:31,491 [laughs] - Are they? 275 00:11:31,591 --> 00:11:33,160 - I can--I'll take them off at some point. 276 00:11:33,260 --> 00:11:34,995 How about that? 277 00:11:35,095 --> 00:11:37,164 - So how much of me can you see? 278 00:11:37,264 --> 00:11:38,331 Waist up? 279 00:11:38,431 --> 00:11:41,468 - My white socks. 280 00:11:41,568 --> 00:11:43,136 - So you can see my socks? 281 00:11:43,236 --> 00:11:44,371 - White socks. - Hold on. Let's cut. 282 00:11:44,471 --> 00:11:45,839 - Yeah. 283 00:11:45,939 --> 00:11:48,308 - You should sit over there, because that way, 284 00:11:48,408 --> 00:11:50,343 if I say something bad, I can see Brandy 285 00:11:50,443 --> 00:11:52,512 over your shoulder going-- 286 00:11:52,612 --> 00:11:54,314 - Yeah, I feel like I should be-- 287 00:11:54,414 --> 00:11:56,049 I should be here, though. 288 00:11:56,149 --> 00:11:58,151 I should be like, "I can't believe it's over." 289 00:11:58,251 --> 00:11:59,519 [dramatic music] 290 00:11:59,619 --> 00:12:01,989 - My name is Ross Marquand, and I play Aaron. 291 00:12:02,089 --> 00:12:04,724 - Hi, I'm Seth Gilliam, and I play Father Gabriel. 292 00:12:04,825 --> 00:12:07,194 - I'm Josh McDermitt. I play Eugene. 293 00:12:07,294 --> 00:12:09,196 - Hi. I'm Khary Payton. I play King Ezekiel. 294 00:12:09,296 --> 00:12:12,232 - My name is Cailey Fleming, and I play Judith Grimes. 295 00:12:12,332 --> 00:12:13,901 - Hi. I'm Lauren Ridloff. 296 00:12:14,001 --> 00:12:16,536 I play Connie on "The Walking Dead." 297 00:12:16,636 --> 00:12:21,074 * 298 00:12:21,174 --> 00:12:22,843 - The experience getting cast on the show, 299 00:12:22,943 --> 00:12:24,011 for me, was life-changing. 300 00:12:24,111 --> 00:12:25,678 - It was pretty surreal. 301 00:12:25,779 --> 00:12:29,616 - Fans came up to me and said, "You should be Negan." 302 00:12:30,750 --> 00:12:34,087 It was maybe the most exhilarating work 303 00:12:34,187 --> 00:12:36,423 I think I'd ever done up to that point. 304 00:12:37,825 --> 00:12:40,260 - I was a bit intimidated coming here 305 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,429 with an ensemble cast who had been doing this 306 00:12:42,529 --> 00:12:45,966 and had made such a name for themselves. 307 00:12:47,534 --> 00:12:50,103 - Very intimidating coming into a show that you love. 308 00:12:50,203 --> 00:12:52,572 You don't want to be the one who screws it up. 309 00:12:52,672 --> 00:12:55,608 - It was kind of like, "Here's the script, dude. 310 00:12:55,708 --> 00:12:58,211 Don't screw this up," you know? 311 00:12:58,311 --> 00:12:59,779 - But we'd all tell you the same thing. 312 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:01,815 We were welcomed right away. 313 00:13:03,116 --> 00:13:05,352 - You know, Andy gave me some shit initially. 314 00:13:05,452 --> 00:13:07,220 But it was very good-natured. 315 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,289 - [giggling] 316 00:13:09,389 --> 00:13:12,392 My first day on set, I was just blown away 317 00:13:12,492 --> 00:13:14,061 about how kind they were. 318 00:13:14,161 --> 00:13:16,964 They were so welcoming and accepting of me. 319 00:13:17,064 --> 00:13:18,265 - Hi. - I'm Andy. What's your name? 320 00:13:18,365 --> 00:13:19,867 - Addie. - Addie. 321 00:13:19,967 --> 00:13:23,403 - Andy Lincoln came on a day off just to greet us. 322 00:13:23,503 --> 00:13:26,306 Who's done that for me before in my career? 323 00:13:26,406 --> 00:13:27,807 Nobody. 324 00:13:27,908 --> 00:13:30,277 - Before I even got on a plane to fly out to Georgia, 325 00:13:30,377 --> 00:13:33,646 Steven Yeun was emailing me saying, "Hey, here's my number. 326 00:13:33,746 --> 00:13:34,882 "Let's hang out, let's"-- 327 00:13:34,982 --> 00:13:36,383 you know, "Welcome to the show. 328 00:13:36,483 --> 00:13:37,985 I'm excited to be working with you." 329 00:13:38,085 --> 00:13:39,752 That really set the tone. 330 00:13:39,853 --> 00:13:43,556 - When you're coming into such a crazy environment, 331 00:13:43,656 --> 00:13:45,225 it's such a nice thing to do. 332 00:13:45,325 --> 00:13:47,660 I want to do that for people in my career. 333 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,630 [indistinct chatter] 334 00:13:50,730 --> 00:13:54,334 * 335 00:13:54,434 --> 00:13:55,602 - This was a really tricky year. 336 00:13:55,702 --> 00:13:56,769 It's been a really tricky two years 337 00:13:56,870 --> 00:13:58,271 for the entire world. 338 00:13:58,371 --> 00:14:02,175 And our writers were already well at work 339 00:14:02,275 --> 00:14:07,147 in the room in January, February, March of 2020. 340 00:14:07,247 --> 00:14:12,085 - Our usual schedule, we start the writers room in January. 341 00:14:12,185 --> 00:14:14,287 And then, you know, we work for a certain number of weeks, 342 00:14:14,387 --> 00:14:18,825 and then we pitch AMC the-- our plans for the season, 343 00:14:18,926 --> 00:14:21,494 and then we start writing, and then we start shooting 344 00:14:21,594 --> 00:14:24,998 somewhere around the end of April, beginning of May. 345 00:14:25,098 --> 00:14:26,833 - We had actually just had a pitch, 346 00:14:26,934 --> 00:14:28,801 what we thought was gonna be a traditional season 11 347 00:14:28,902 --> 00:14:30,470 of 16 episodes. 348 00:14:30,570 --> 00:14:32,039 And then the pandemic hit. 349 00:14:34,641 --> 00:14:38,445 - At that time, we were already in pre-prep. 350 00:14:38,545 --> 00:14:40,647 Like, sets were being built, 351 00:14:40,747 --> 00:14:43,116 department heads were getting ready to travel, 352 00:14:43,216 --> 00:14:44,684 like, all of that kind of stuff. 353 00:14:44,784 --> 00:14:47,320 It became apparent that this wasn't, 354 00:14:47,420 --> 00:14:49,489 like, gonna be a four-week thing, 355 00:14:49,589 --> 00:14:52,659 where we pause and then we got back up and running. 356 00:14:55,062 --> 00:14:57,064 We were just starting to understand 357 00:14:57,164 --> 00:15:00,867 it was going to be very hard to produce 358 00:15:00,968 --> 00:15:02,869 the episodes that we initially had planned 359 00:15:02,970 --> 00:15:05,138 for the start of season 11. 360 00:15:05,238 --> 00:15:07,140 But we were one of the early shows 361 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,376 that started producing again. 362 00:15:09,476 --> 00:15:11,578 Really, not very many people were able 363 00:15:11,678 --> 00:15:14,481 to get up and running very quickly in 2020 364 00:15:14,581 --> 00:15:18,085 because there were all these health protocols 365 00:15:18,185 --> 00:15:19,919 that had to be figured out. 366 00:15:20,020 --> 00:15:22,189 It was this huge learning curve. 367 00:15:22,289 --> 00:15:24,557 - I got you. - Thank you so much. 368 00:15:24,657 --> 00:15:30,363 * 369 00:15:31,798 --> 00:15:33,400 - I honestly thought this show was gonna 370 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:35,402 keep going for a while. 371 00:15:35,502 --> 00:15:37,537 - One, I think more than anything, 372 00:15:37,637 --> 00:15:39,572 it was a shock. 373 00:15:39,672 --> 00:15:42,175 - I kind of had a wave of panic. 374 00:15:42,275 --> 00:15:43,610 I was like, "Wait, wait, wait, 375 00:15:43,710 --> 00:15:45,078 "I'm never going back there again? 376 00:15:45,178 --> 00:15:46,279 What are you talking about?" 377 00:15:46,379 --> 00:15:47,580 I don't know. It's just--it's surreal. 378 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:49,282 I haven't really accepted that it's over, 379 00:15:49,382 --> 00:15:51,384 I don't think, to be honest. 380 00:15:51,484 --> 00:15:53,020 - And then we got this phone call saying, 381 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:58,625 "Hey, so we're gonna do 24 episodes." 382 00:15:58,725 --> 00:16:00,927 And of course, first thing I thought about is, 383 00:16:01,028 --> 00:16:04,631 "Holy shit, like, shooting 16 episodes almost kills us. 384 00:16:04,731 --> 00:16:06,466 How are we gonna shoot 24 episodes?" 385 00:16:06,566 --> 00:16:10,570 I mean, this is not a courtroom drama. 386 00:16:10,670 --> 00:16:12,272 This show is hardcore. 387 00:16:12,372 --> 00:16:14,274 - It's like every episode, we approach it 388 00:16:14,374 --> 00:16:16,643 like it's its own little indie movie. 389 00:16:16,743 --> 00:16:18,811 I think for everybody, just the idea 390 00:16:18,911 --> 00:16:22,382 of how do we produce this in the time that we have 391 00:16:22,482 --> 00:16:25,318 with the restrictions that we have? 392 00:16:25,418 --> 00:16:27,320 - How do you bring a story like this 393 00:16:27,420 --> 00:16:31,058 to a conclusion that is worth the legacy 394 00:16:31,158 --> 00:16:33,493 of what this show is? 395 00:16:33,593 --> 00:16:37,397 - This is a very widespread story 396 00:16:37,497 --> 00:16:41,234 with literally dozens of well-known characters 397 00:16:41,334 --> 00:16:43,836 that we all have to-- you have to pay off. 398 00:16:43,936 --> 00:16:47,174 And that is-- that's a very difficult, 399 00:16:47,274 --> 00:16:48,641 very difficult thing to do. 400 00:16:48,741 --> 00:16:50,410 - People are getting used to it. 401 00:16:50,510 --> 00:16:51,644 - What I'll say is that, like, 402 00:16:51,744 --> 00:16:53,246 I know that every person in this room 403 00:16:53,346 --> 00:16:55,014 was like, "Oh, shit, we have to end the series. 404 00:16:55,115 --> 00:16:57,250 Like, let us not fuck this up." - Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 405 00:16:57,350 --> 00:17:00,253 - Angela Kang and the writers really had to, 406 00:17:00,353 --> 00:17:02,489 you know, drop whole things that they had been working on 407 00:17:02,589 --> 00:17:05,325 to shift gears to do more episodes 408 00:17:05,425 --> 00:17:07,493 to get us into the 24 episodes of season 11. 409 00:17:07,594 --> 00:17:08,828 Oh, and by the way, you also have to wrap up 410 00:17:08,928 --> 00:17:10,163 the whole show. 411 00:17:10,262 --> 00:17:16,868 * 412 00:17:16,969 --> 00:17:18,338 - This is the end of the series, 413 00:17:18,438 --> 00:17:19,705 so we have to, like-- 414 00:17:19,806 --> 00:17:23,276 you've gotta raise those stakes in a way 415 00:17:23,376 --> 00:17:25,444 that, like, elevates it to the point 416 00:17:25,545 --> 00:17:27,980 where these are the rides we're gonna take you on. 417 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,718 - It's like a story of, like, the gut, the heart. 418 00:17:31,818 --> 00:17:35,188 You're dealing with, like, almost, like, the bureaucracy 419 00:17:35,288 --> 00:17:37,390 and the institution itself 420 00:17:37,490 --> 00:17:41,027 as being the enemy of human progress 421 00:17:41,128 --> 00:17:43,830 and, like, how people with good intentions 422 00:17:43,930 --> 00:17:46,133 can still build something evil. 423 00:17:46,233 --> 00:17:48,168 - I don't think the Commonwealth thinks 424 00:17:48,268 --> 00:17:49,469 they're evil, 425 00:17:49,569 --> 00:17:52,004 given what's happened all around them. 426 00:17:52,105 --> 00:17:54,407 - In all societies where there's, like, a figurehead 427 00:17:54,507 --> 00:17:56,243 and they have all the power, 428 00:17:56,343 --> 00:17:59,312 ultimately that power will corrupt. 429 00:17:59,412 --> 00:18:01,481 - So how do you still ground that down 430 00:18:01,581 --> 00:18:03,550 in the visceral sort of thing 431 00:18:03,650 --> 00:18:04,817 that makes it "The Walking Dead"? 432 00:18:04,917 --> 00:18:06,319 - We know that there's still a contingent 433 00:18:06,419 --> 00:18:11,090 of our people in Commonwealth that are in imminent danger. 434 00:18:11,191 --> 00:18:13,260 - Well, the alternative is, you go out into the wasteland 435 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:14,427 and you eat worms. 436 00:18:14,527 --> 00:18:17,597 The alternative is literally hell. 437 00:18:17,697 --> 00:18:19,199 - Yeah. 438 00:18:19,299 --> 00:18:21,934 - It's teeing up what becomes a do-or-die kind of situation. 439 00:18:23,936 --> 00:18:26,773 [soft music] 440 00:18:26,873 --> 00:18:29,909 * 441 00:18:30,009 --> 00:18:33,880 - There's a big statement being made this season. 442 00:18:33,980 --> 00:18:36,216 It's not really what we're used to. 443 00:18:36,316 --> 00:18:38,084 It's something we've fallen on. 444 00:18:38,185 --> 00:18:41,454 And then the writers themselves are telling a story 445 00:18:41,554 --> 00:18:44,524 of equality and social justice. 446 00:18:44,624 --> 00:18:46,626 - I feel like through the apocalypse, 447 00:18:46,726 --> 00:18:50,463 we rediscover what is really important to us. 448 00:18:50,563 --> 00:18:53,366 And then we have to reenter society. 449 00:18:53,466 --> 00:18:56,403 And that is the Commonwealth. 450 00:18:56,503 --> 00:18:59,572 And we face the threat 451 00:18:59,672 --> 00:19:02,542 of losing ourselves once again. 452 00:19:02,642 --> 00:19:05,378 So the battle is really about 453 00:19:13,019 --> 00:19:13,953 [soft dramatic music] 454 00:19:14,654 --> 00:19:17,257 - You've fallen on hard times. 455 00:19:17,357 --> 00:19:18,758 And that is where the Commonwealth 456 00:19:18,858 --> 00:19:21,661 is more than willing to help. 457 00:19:21,761 --> 00:19:24,564 If you remain, we can provide labor and materials 458 00:19:24,664 --> 00:19:27,200 to help you build back all you've lost. 459 00:19:28,668 --> 00:19:30,770 However, 460 00:19:30,870 --> 00:19:34,006 if any are interested, 461 00:19:34,106 --> 00:19:36,443 I do have another, 462 00:19:36,543 --> 00:19:40,313 potentially more interesting choice to offer. 463 00:19:40,413 --> 00:19:44,517 * 464 00:19:44,617 --> 00:19:47,587 - This whole season feels like an escalation 465 00:19:47,687 --> 00:19:49,256 across the board. 466 00:19:49,356 --> 00:19:52,492 Now we're at a place where we have multiple communities. 467 00:19:52,592 --> 00:19:54,160 And we introduced Commonwealth this year, 468 00:19:54,261 --> 00:19:56,663 which is by far the most advanced community 469 00:19:56,763 --> 00:19:58,798 we've ever seen in the history of the show. 470 00:19:58,898 --> 00:20:00,667 You know, it's a community of 50,000 people. 471 00:20:00,767 --> 00:20:02,101 It's the closest thing 472 00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,770 to what the world used to look like 473 00:20:03,870 --> 00:20:05,204 that we've ever seen. 474 00:20:05,305 --> 00:20:07,907 And that was a huge undertaking for the production crew. 475 00:20:09,576 --> 00:20:10,810 - My name's Roger Scruggs. 476 00:20:10,910 --> 00:20:12,345 I'm the construction coordinator. 477 00:20:12,445 --> 00:20:15,181 - Mike Sullivan, and I'm the scenic charge. 478 00:20:15,282 --> 00:20:16,449 - I'm Gia Grosso. 479 00:20:16,549 --> 00:20:17,850 I'm the set decorator. 480 00:20:17,950 --> 00:20:19,118 - I'm Vera Chow. 481 00:20:19,218 --> 00:20:20,787 I'm the costume designer of this season 482 00:20:20,887 --> 00:20:22,889 of "The Walking Dead." 483 00:20:22,989 --> 00:20:24,123 - It's been huge. 484 00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:25,358 We've had big builds 485 00:20:25,458 --> 00:20:27,226 pretty much every episode this year. 486 00:20:27,327 --> 00:20:28,995 It's been really ambitious. 487 00:20:29,095 --> 00:20:31,364 Everything that's in there in the square, 488 00:20:31,464 --> 00:20:34,534 the Commonwealth square, we built this year. 489 00:20:34,634 --> 00:20:36,135 - They'll design the set. 490 00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:37,704 They'll come to me and say, 491 00:20:37,804 --> 00:20:39,506 "This is the kind of look that I'd like." 492 00:20:39,606 --> 00:20:41,408 And then we just have to run with it. 493 00:20:41,508 --> 00:20:44,411 The first big set that we did was the Commonwealth. 494 00:20:44,511 --> 00:20:47,614 We had no idea how large it was going to be. 495 00:20:50,750 --> 00:20:52,919 - The Commonwealth is the biggest community 496 00:20:53,019 --> 00:20:54,387 that they've been in in the show, 497 00:20:54,487 --> 00:20:59,326 and though it has a really dark underbelly to it, 498 00:20:59,426 --> 00:21:01,761 it's a community that-- 499 00:21:01,861 --> 00:21:03,530 that is successful. 500 00:21:03,630 --> 00:21:05,164 This place, 501 00:21:05,264 --> 00:21:06,699 compared to any other place they've been, 502 00:21:06,799 --> 00:21:11,338 is so shiny and nice and safe 503 00:21:11,438 --> 00:21:13,906 that the place in and of itself 504 00:21:14,006 --> 00:21:16,576 made our characters into aliens. 505 00:21:16,676 --> 00:21:19,779 - You kind of walk into it and you're like, what is this? 506 00:21:19,879 --> 00:21:21,881 Yeah, people in the outfits walking around 507 00:21:21,981 --> 00:21:23,450 eating cotton candy and stuff, 508 00:21:23,550 --> 00:21:26,085 which is definitely different than what we're used to. 509 00:21:26,185 --> 00:21:27,520 You're like, where are we? 510 00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:31,624 You're like, are we being punked, like, you know? 511 00:21:31,724 --> 00:21:36,596 And I think it plays on my face in all the scenes there. 512 00:21:36,696 --> 00:21:40,467 - What I do in my department, my crew, is, 513 00:21:40,567 --> 00:21:43,970 we handle all the set dressing. 514 00:21:44,070 --> 00:21:47,774 For instance, this sofa would be in our realm. 515 00:21:47,874 --> 00:21:51,110 * 516 00:21:51,210 --> 00:21:54,614 We had a great time doing the Commonwealth town 517 00:21:54,714 --> 00:21:57,784 because it's a mix of found things. 518 00:21:57,884 --> 00:22:02,121 And the little bit that they do manufacture, 519 00:22:02,221 --> 00:22:05,425 paper goods and you see a lot of fabrics, 520 00:22:05,525 --> 00:22:08,561 it was really fun to make the shops 521 00:22:08,661 --> 00:22:10,797 using all of those elements. 522 00:22:10,897 --> 00:22:12,799 There's a lot of weird shit in those shops. 523 00:22:12,899 --> 00:22:15,067 [laughs] 524 00:22:15,167 --> 00:22:17,504 - We've gone from "The Walking Dead" 525 00:22:17,604 --> 00:22:19,672 back to the living people. 526 00:22:19,772 --> 00:22:22,074 It's kind of like they're in a community 527 00:22:22,174 --> 00:22:24,844 where they're not out in the wild all the time. 528 00:22:24,944 --> 00:22:26,946 They have running water. 529 00:22:27,046 --> 00:22:28,515 They clean their hands every day. 530 00:22:30,182 --> 00:22:31,651 - I was aware of the introduction 531 00:22:31,751 --> 00:22:34,320 of the Commonwealth, like, brand-new villains. 532 00:22:34,421 --> 00:22:38,991 So it was a chance to really change things up 533 00:22:39,091 --> 00:22:40,593 and elevate it. 534 00:22:40,693 --> 00:22:44,330 So we started thinking about what kind of technology 535 00:22:44,431 --> 00:22:46,433 would actually exist in the Commonwealth. 536 00:22:46,533 --> 00:22:48,034 And there's, like, no rules 537 00:22:48,134 --> 00:22:50,837 in terms of what decade we're in. 538 00:22:50,937 --> 00:22:52,705 It's not our actual present day. 539 00:22:52,805 --> 00:22:54,707 So how has fashion evolved? 540 00:22:54,807 --> 00:22:57,677 How has clothing and sewing evolved 541 00:22:57,777 --> 00:22:59,612 in this little town of 50,000 people? 542 00:22:59,712 --> 00:23:01,648 It's entirely up to me. 543 00:23:01,748 --> 00:23:03,249 So that was fun. 544 00:23:05,384 --> 00:23:07,386 - It's been such a massive transition. 545 00:23:07,487 --> 00:23:10,623 And there's not been a slow progression in that. 546 00:23:10,723 --> 00:23:13,192 We really shove our characters 547 00:23:13,292 --> 00:23:17,497 into quite drastic changes this season. 548 00:23:18,665 --> 00:23:22,201 - I think our group is too smart to be fooled by it, 549 00:23:22,301 --> 00:23:23,736 to be honest. 550 00:23:23,836 --> 00:23:26,806 And so we're kind of reluctantly pulled into it 551 00:23:26,906 --> 00:23:28,541 because we want safety for our kids. 552 00:23:28,641 --> 00:23:30,342 We want them to have a better life. 553 00:23:30,443 --> 00:23:33,446 And then it sort of unravels around us. 554 00:23:35,014 --> 00:23:36,916 - There's a direct clash, I think, 555 00:23:37,016 --> 00:23:40,219 for people on the outside and people on the inside. 556 00:23:40,319 --> 00:23:42,922 And there's an unrest inside the Commonwealth as well, 557 00:23:43,022 --> 00:23:45,324 and all of that is building up. 558 00:23:45,424 --> 00:23:47,694 - The leader is kind of a dictator, 559 00:23:47,794 --> 00:23:49,596 and she's lying to everybody. 560 00:23:49,696 --> 00:23:53,032 And they're just now opening their eyes to it, I guess. 561 00:23:53,132 --> 00:23:56,703 - What's exciting is, Mercer has finally come around 562 00:23:56,803 --> 00:23:59,271 and was able to rescue Eugene. 563 00:23:59,371 --> 00:24:02,441 And now we're gonna see what comes of that. 564 00:24:02,542 --> 00:24:06,178 - After having had Hershel kidnapped by Pamela, 565 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,156 [indistinct chatter] 566 00:24:18,658 --> 00:24:21,027 - The scale of what we're trying to accomplish 567 00:24:21,127 --> 00:24:25,097 for this finale and building up to the finale 568 00:24:25,197 --> 00:24:26,866 is remarkable. 569 00:24:26,966 --> 00:24:30,637 And I think the scale of everything 570 00:24:30,737 --> 00:24:34,473 is going to be a bit bigger, a bit bolder, 571 00:24:34,574 --> 00:24:36,475 and a bit more surprising. 572 00:24:36,576 --> 00:24:37,977 - All right, here we go, team. 573 00:24:38,077 --> 00:24:39,311 Ready? 574 00:24:39,411 --> 00:24:40,412 All right, let's see what happens. 575 00:24:40,513 --> 00:24:42,148 - We owe it to our fans 576 00:24:42,248 --> 00:24:44,283 and the legacy of this show 577 00:24:44,383 --> 00:24:47,319 to have a--lack of a better way to say it, 578 00:24:47,419 --> 00:24:49,321 a thrilling conclusion to "The Walking Dead." 579 00:24:49,421 --> 00:24:50,623 And we're gonna do that. 580 00:24:50,723 --> 00:24:52,258 - Mark. 581 00:24:55,928 --> 00:24:58,097 - I've never been on a show 582 00:24:58,197 --> 00:25:01,300 that has this many enormous sets. 583 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,069 And just trying to get sets done 584 00:25:03,169 --> 00:25:07,006 with the time frame of a episodic TV show, 585 00:25:07,106 --> 00:25:08,808 the challenge is what I really like. 586 00:25:08,908 --> 00:25:12,444 [dramatic music] 587 00:25:12,545 --> 00:25:15,815 - When I read a script, I do get really excited 588 00:25:15,915 --> 00:25:19,118 when there is maybe a new scenario 589 00:25:19,218 --> 00:25:20,987 we haven't done before. 590 00:25:21,087 --> 00:25:23,790 I'd say one of the first ones that interested me 591 00:25:23,890 --> 00:25:25,958 was our subway tunnels. 592 00:25:27,259 --> 00:25:30,196 To create an apocalyptic subway tunnel 593 00:25:30,296 --> 00:25:34,000 was really a challenge that we all really welcomed. 594 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,737 We just knew it was going to be so fantastic. 595 00:25:38,938 --> 00:25:40,607 - One of the big highlights this season, 596 00:25:40,707 --> 00:25:42,842 they built a 50,000-gallon water tank, 597 00:25:42,942 --> 00:25:45,044 and we filmed in it, and it was the flooded basement 598 00:25:45,144 --> 00:25:47,346 of Aaron's house. 599 00:25:47,446 --> 00:25:49,515 We have--Judith and Gracie are trapped down there 600 00:25:49,616 --> 00:25:51,651 being attacked by walkers who are in the water. 601 00:25:51,751 --> 00:25:54,220 Aaron's jumping in and smashing their heads in 602 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,822 with his mace hand. 603 00:25:55,922 --> 00:25:58,457 And it's just--it is wild to shoot in those conditions. 604 00:25:58,557 --> 00:26:00,660 I'd never been able to do anything like that. 605 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,394 - Thank you. 606 00:26:02,494 --> 00:26:05,898 - We've had quite a few sequences like that this year, 607 00:26:05,998 --> 00:26:09,736 and they've kind of, you know, taken up the scale of things 608 00:26:09,836 --> 00:26:11,604 just a bit, those writers have. 609 00:26:14,140 --> 00:26:15,908 - Episode nine, we had the hwacha, 610 00:26:16,008 --> 00:26:18,010 which just fires rocket arrows out 611 00:26:18,110 --> 00:26:20,747 as, like, a ballistic missile. 612 00:26:20,847 --> 00:26:22,481 And they're firing into a herd, 613 00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:24,150 and they're exploding and blowing up, 614 00:26:24,250 --> 00:26:28,320 and the rockets hit the walker, 615 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:29,555 shooting out sparks, 616 00:26:29,656 --> 00:26:32,224 and then they explode into a million pieces. 617 00:26:32,324 --> 00:26:34,026 And there were so many elements 618 00:26:34,126 --> 00:26:35,327 we had to come up with. 619 00:26:35,427 --> 00:26:37,229 - I built a couple prototypes. 620 00:26:37,329 --> 00:26:40,199 Effects built the working model, 621 00:26:40,299 --> 00:26:42,468 because mine would have caught on fire. 622 00:26:44,837 --> 00:26:46,005 [phone vibrating] 623 00:26:46,105 --> 00:26:47,640 - Excuse me. 624 00:26:49,842 --> 00:26:52,244 I have to take this. Sorry. 625 00:26:52,344 --> 00:26:54,413 Hello? 626 00:26:54,513 --> 00:26:57,516 Everybody is at the top of their game 627 00:26:57,616 --> 00:27:01,020 and experts in their field in each and every department. 628 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:02,454 I'm talking greens. 629 00:27:02,554 --> 00:27:05,624 I'm talking art department, crafty. 630 00:27:05,725 --> 00:27:09,261 And sometimes when I don't necessarily have to be on set, 631 00:27:09,361 --> 00:27:11,798 I'll come on set just to watch them 632 00:27:11,898 --> 00:27:14,266 because it's so impressive. 633 00:27:14,366 --> 00:27:16,635 - Just tell me your name and what you do on the show. 634 00:27:16,736 --> 00:27:18,637 - Taylor Knight. I'm the hair department head. 635 00:27:18,738 --> 00:27:21,207 - Brad Carey, and I'm the key greens person. 636 00:27:21,307 --> 00:27:22,909 - Geoffrey January. 637 00:27:23,009 --> 00:27:24,443 First assistant director. 638 00:27:24,543 --> 00:27:26,813 - I'm Jody Winslette. I'm the transpo captain. 639 00:27:26,913 --> 00:27:29,148 - Bryan Carey. I'm the greens foreman. 640 00:27:29,248 --> 00:27:30,582 - Vincent Gideon. 641 00:27:30,683 --> 00:27:33,786 I am the key hair department for "The Walking Dead." 642 00:27:33,886 --> 00:27:36,789 [intense music] 643 00:27:36,889 --> 00:27:41,761 * 644 00:27:41,861 --> 00:27:44,163 - It's been a challenging season, without a doubt. 645 00:27:44,263 --> 00:27:47,800 But the only way that it has survived 646 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:50,169 is because the passion of the crew and the cast. 647 00:27:50,269 --> 00:27:51,670 - A couple more times. - Is that good? 648 00:27:51,771 --> 00:27:54,440 - I need to see four more tests before I'm comfortable with it. 649 00:27:56,743 --> 00:27:58,644 - Shooting "The Walking Dead" is like playing chess. 650 00:27:58,745 --> 00:28:01,180 It's a very complicated show to make. 651 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:05,451 We have visual effects and special effects and stunts. 652 00:28:05,551 --> 00:28:08,287 - [screaming] 653 00:28:08,387 --> 00:28:11,357 - The glamour of "The Walking Dead"? 654 00:28:11,457 --> 00:28:13,826 There is no glamour of "The Walking Dead" 655 00:28:13,926 --> 00:28:15,795 while you're shooting "The Walking Dead," you know? 656 00:28:15,895 --> 00:28:18,765 It's like go, go, go! 657 00:28:18,865 --> 00:28:21,167 Oh, it's hot? Well, yeah, it's hot. 658 00:28:21,267 --> 00:28:22,769 Oh, there are mosquitoes? There are ticks? 659 00:28:22,869 --> 00:28:24,336 Yeah, there are mosquitoes and ticks. 660 00:28:24,436 --> 00:28:25,772 - Bug spray on the tracks. 661 00:28:25,872 --> 00:28:28,674 - And honestly, when I'm away, I feel guilty 662 00:28:28,775 --> 00:28:31,844 because I know that my crew is out here busting their ass. 663 00:28:31,944 --> 00:28:33,379 And I want to be out here, 664 00:28:33,479 --> 00:28:35,314 you know, feeling it with them. 665 00:28:35,414 --> 00:28:37,449 The truth is, we make magic in eight days. 666 00:28:37,549 --> 00:28:38,985 And if you do it with people you love, 667 00:28:39,085 --> 00:28:40,352 it's actually worth it. 668 00:28:40,452 --> 00:28:43,355 [dramatic music] 669 00:28:43,455 --> 00:28:46,125 * 670 00:28:46,225 --> 00:28:48,527 - This show makes you uncomfortable. 671 00:28:48,627 --> 00:28:51,363 But I think it helps for what you guys see on the screen. 672 00:28:51,463 --> 00:28:53,165 You feel that uncomfortableness, 673 00:28:53,265 --> 00:28:54,466 and that plays 674 00:28:54,566 --> 00:28:56,702 because we're in the middle of an apocalypse. 675 00:28:56,803 --> 00:29:00,907 Those of us that have been here longer than a year are insane. 676 00:29:02,008 --> 00:29:04,710 - I've been in awe of the people 677 00:29:04,811 --> 00:29:08,014 that I've collaborated with over the last 12 years 678 00:29:08,114 --> 00:29:10,549 of making something that's been amazing. 679 00:29:10,649 --> 00:29:14,486 And we continue that dedication 680 00:29:14,586 --> 00:29:17,723 and that passion all the way through to the last ring. 681 00:29:17,824 --> 00:29:20,692 - We are gonna work our asses off until then, 682 00:29:20,793 --> 00:29:24,396 and then we're gonna have a lot of tequila. 683 00:29:24,496 --> 00:29:26,332 [laughs] 684 00:29:30,837 --> 00:29:31,703 [dramatic music] 685 00:29:32,872 --> 00:29:35,374 - Anything that happens from the moment we shoot it, 686 00:29:35,474 --> 00:29:40,012 we'll take in 40, 50, 60 hours worth of material sometimes. 687 00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:41,914 Once we take that footage in, 688 00:29:42,014 --> 00:29:45,284 our assistant editors digitize that footage for the editors, 689 00:29:45,384 --> 00:29:47,887 put it into the machines, kind of put it into order, 690 00:29:47,987 --> 00:29:49,822 and get it ready to be worked on. 691 00:29:52,959 --> 00:29:55,627 - I'm Megan. I'm the VFX coordinator. 692 00:29:55,727 --> 00:29:58,297 - I'm Mike, the VFX editor. 693 00:29:58,397 --> 00:30:00,632 - I'm Alan Cody, and I'm the editor. 694 00:30:00,732 --> 00:30:03,635 - I am Ryan DeGard. I am the post producer. 695 00:30:04,703 --> 00:30:07,106 - There's some fun stuff in post. 696 00:30:07,206 --> 00:30:09,475 And I think a lot of times, people think, 697 00:30:09,575 --> 00:30:11,277 like, "Oh, like, it's done shooting." 698 00:30:11,377 --> 00:30:12,778 Like, you must all be on a break." 699 00:30:12,879 --> 00:30:14,981 And I'm like, "No, production is on a break." 700 00:30:15,081 --> 00:30:16,949 [walkers snarling] 701 00:30:17,049 --> 00:30:18,617 There's an entire post-production process 702 00:30:18,717 --> 00:30:21,420 that's happening that goes on for months 703 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,122 and months and months. 704 00:30:23,222 --> 00:30:25,925 - I think that's one of the misconceptions 705 00:30:26,025 --> 00:30:28,895 of, you know--just in general with television and movies. 706 00:30:28,995 --> 00:30:30,262 It's like, as soon as you've shot it, 707 00:30:30,362 --> 00:30:32,664 why isn't it ready for us to watch it? 708 00:30:32,764 --> 00:30:35,567 So it's like, you have to go through these processes, 709 00:30:35,667 --> 00:30:37,003 and they take a lot of time. 710 00:30:37,103 --> 00:30:39,505 And the post process consists of editing, 711 00:30:39,605 --> 00:30:42,975 sound, visual effects, mixing. 712 00:30:43,075 --> 00:30:44,776 And we kind of put that whole thing together 713 00:30:44,877 --> 00:30:48,014 in the post process and, you know, condense that down 714 00:30:48,114 --> 00:30:50,416 into something that we put out to the public. 715 00:30:50,516 --> 00:30:52,919 - I'm Jamie. I'm the VFX producer. 716 00:30:53,019 --> 00:30:54,153 Our show has a lot of killing, 717 00:30:54,253 --> 00:30:56,255 especially of zombies. 718 00:30:56,355 --> 00:31:00,459 And each actor has kind of their own, like, hero weapon. 719 00:31:00,559 --> 00:31:02,794 And if we see that green end when we're watching, 720 00:31:02,895 --> 00:31:04,096 we know, "Okay, we're gonna need 721 00:31:04,196 --> 00:31:05,831 to extend the length of it." 722 00:31:05,932 --> 00:31:07,333 And then we'll kind of take 723 00:31:07,433 --> 00:31:09,969 that second half that we're building 724 00:31:10,069 --> 00:31:12,438 and be able to swing it through the actor's head 725 00:31:12,538 --> 00:31:15,807 and add the blood and all of the fun stuff. 726 00:31:15,908 --> 00:31:17,376 - So all of those things happen. 727 00:31:17,476 --> 00:31:19,211 There's an entire mix process. 728 00:31:19,311 --> 00:31:23,015 And our post producer does an incredible amount of work 729 00:31:23,115 --> 00:31:26,052 with the people that do ADR and loop group 730 00:31:26,152 --> 00:31:28,187 and add all the background noises. 731 00:31:28,287 --> 00:31:29,555 - Let's do these three right here, 732 00:31:29,655 --> 00:31:31,123 and then we'll move them in there. 733 00:31:31,223 --> 00:31:32,324 - Get down! 734 00:31:32,424 --> 00:31:36,628 - [grunting] 735 00:31:36,728 --> 00:31:38,564 - As far as sound goes, this show is, 736 00:31:38,664 --> 00:31:41,067 you know, built on sound, really. 737 00:31:41,167 --> 00:31:44,503 I mean, there's just a lot of layers to what we do. 738 00:31:44,603 --> 00:31:46,572 - It is a zombie show. 739 00:31:46,672 --> 00:31:49,408 We take a lot of pride in the artistry 740 00:31:49,508 --> 00:31:50,909 that goes into the zombies. 741 00:31:51,010 --> 00:31:52,844 We work really hard to think about the zombies. 742 00:31:52,945 --> 00:31:56,082 - Here we go. [all snarling] 743 00:32:01,787 --> 00:32:03,855 - There's just some incredible work 744 00:32:03,956 --> 00:32:07,326 that they all do that's on screen. 745 00:32:07,426 --> 00:32:09,095 - The last music spot on "The Walking Dead." 746 00:32:09,195 --> 00:32:11,430 - I know! 747 00:32:11,530 --> 00:32:15,367 - God, shed a tear, and here we go. 748 00:32:15,467 --> 00:32:18,037 - I love working with our composers. 749 00:32:18,137 --> 00:32:20,439 Bear and Sam are just-- 750 00:32:20,539 --> 00:32:21,740 they are the best. 751 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,243 They are so story-driven. 752 00:32:24,343 --> 00:32:26,778 They really, like, are thinking it through 753 00:32:26,878 --> 00:32:28,780 in terms of, like, what is the story 754 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:29,948 we're trying to tell? 755 00:32:30,049 --> 00:32:32,451 - Coming out of the previous episode, 756 00:32:32,551 --> 00:32:34,520 it will have been emotional, I think. 757 00:32:34,620 --> 00:32:37,423 To some degree, we can just, like, carry that over. 758 00:32:37,523 --> 00:32:39,125 - I agree, but it's like-- 759 00:32:39,225 --> 00:32:40,726 I think what you're suggesting is what I wanted, 760 00:32:40,826 --> 00:32:43,195 which is to start that more noticeably 761 00:32:43,295 --> 00:32:45,197 the instant [...] passes out... 762 00:32:45,297 --> 00:32:46,398 - Yeah. - Right. 763 00:32:46,498 --> 00:32:48,634 - so that that's all part of the piece. 764 00:32:48,734 --> 00:32:50,269 - We talk about every scene 765 00:32:50,369 --> 00:32:52,038 and we talk about the episode as a whole 766 00:32:52,138 --> 00:32:53,939 and we talk about, like, what are themes 767 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,774 that we're trying to get across? 768 00:32:55,874 --> 00:32:58,044 Like, what are the emotions of this scene? 769 00:32:58,144 --> 00:33:00,046 And once we have that conversation, 770 00:33:00,146 --> 00:33:02,448 they go off and they play with it. 771 00:33:02,548 --> 00:33:03,782 They imagine. 772 00:33:03,882 --> 00:33:06,252 They come up with themes. 773 00:33:06,352 --> 00:33:08,054 It really just adds to the experience. 774 00:33:08,154 --> 00:33:10,322 - Are we still planning on recording 775 00:33:10,422 --> 00:33:12,958 the main title theme with the live orchestra 776 00:33:13,059 --> 00:33:14,060 as well? 777 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,561 I would love to do that. 778 00:33:15,661 --> 00:33:16,895 - I mean, let me put it this way. 779 00:33:16,995 --> 00:33:18,830 - That'd be rad. - It doesn't need it. 780 00:33:18,930 --> 00:33:20,399 It doesn't want it. 781 00:33:20,499 --> 00:33:22,734 But we'll do it because it will look awesome. 782 00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:24,303 [laughter] 783 00:33:24,403 --> 00:33:28,574 - This idea of having Bear and Sam use a live orchestra 784 00:33:28,674 --> 00:33:30,776 had been kind of percolating for a while for me. 785 00:33:30,876 --> 00:33:34,012 And I'd been kind of thinking about it in the background. 786 00:33:34,113 --> 00:33:35,614 It's a big moment for the show. 787 00:33:35,714 --> 00:33:37,349 And when you have a live orchestra, 788 00:33:37,449 --> 00:33:38,917 it's big, right? It's epic. 789 00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:41,987 So, like, the idea that Bear and Sam are gonna deliver 790 00:33:42,088 --> 00:33:44,756 this music in a way that we've never experienced 791 00:33:44,856 --> 00:33:47,025 really on this show, it's exciting. 792 00:33:47,126 --> 00:33:48,694 - Some of the stuff they're composing 793 00:33:48,794 --> 00:33:50,662 that hasn't aired yet, it's just--it's epic. 794 00:33:50,762 --> 00:33:52,298 It's amazing. 795 00:33:52,398 --> 00:33:54,032 Like, I think people will really, really enjoy 796 00:33:54,133 --> 00:33:56,302 the soundscape of these episodes. 797 00:33:57,469 --> 00:34:00,038 [flute playing] - Welcome. 798 00:34:00,139 --> 00:34:03,008 This particular episode, we wanted to send out the show 799 00:34:03,109 --> 00:34:04,676 on an even bigger note. 800 00:34:04,776 --> 00:34:06,545 So everybody on the show is excited 801 00:34:06,645 --> 00:34:08,380 to bring in the winds and the brass 802 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,150 and just do something even bigger than normal. 803 00:34:11,250 --> 00:34:13,319 So just really want to say thank you to them 804 00:34:13,418 --> 00:34:16,054 for letting us do this tonight. 805 00:34:16,155 --> 00:34:18,857 And thank you all for being here. 806 00:34:18,956 --> 00:34:21,393 Okay, bows up. Bar two. 807 00:34:26,797 --> 00:34:30,402 ["The Walking Dead" theme playing] 808 00:34:30,502 --> 00:34:32,271 - It's truly, truly a process 809 00:34:32,371 --> 00:34:35,706 that hundreds of people from start to finish 810 00:34:35,806 --> 00:34:37,176 are working on. 811 00:34:38,744 --> 00:34:43,014 It's so fun to get to be part of all of that. 812 00:34:43,114 --> 00:34:45,984 But just the amount of work that people put in 813 00:34:46,083 --> 00:34:48,820 to, like, really craft every episode 814 00:34:55,594 --> 00:34:56,695 - I'm trying to get your kit pretty much 815 00:34:57,529 --> 00:34:58,897 in the same direction of the lens. 816 00:34:58,997 --> 00:35:00,199 So you're like-- 817 00:35:00,299 --> 00:35:03,335 - All right, here we go. Let's try one. 818 00:35:03,435 --> 00:35:06,405 Here we go. Let's roll, please. 819 00:35:06,505 --> 00:35:08,240 - The nature of the show 820 00:35:08,340 --> 00:35:09,875 and being an actor on this show, 821 00:35:09,975 --> 00:35:12,578 you always sort of feel like the axe is about to drop on you 822 00:35:12,678 --> 00:35:14,045 at any second. 823 00:35:14,146 --> 00:35:15,614 - Shoot yourself back just a tiny bit. 824 00:35:15,714 --> 00:35:16,882 By, like-- - Like that? 825 00:35:16,982 --> 00:35:18,584 - Yeah, perfect. Thank you. 826 00:35:18,684 --> 00:35:21,453 - I always answer the phone to Angela the same way, 827 00:35:21,553 --> 00:35:23,355 which is, "Is it--am I dead? 828 00:35:23,455 --> 00:35:26,024 Is it now?" I don't even say hello. 829 00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:27,859 - All right, that's a series wrap 830 00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:29,428 on Michael, guys. 831 00:35:29,528 --> 00:35:32,431 [all cheering] 832 00:35:32,531 --> 00:35:34,633 - You know, on our show, we have wrap-outs 833 00:35:34,733 --> 00:35:38,036 as people have their final series wraps. 834 00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:40,606 And the final episode of somebody 835 00:35:40,706 --> 00:35:42,140 who's been on the show for a while is always 836 00:35:42,241 --> 00:35:43,742 really emotional, you know. 837 00:35:43,842 --> 00:35:45,110 And usually, in any given year, 838 00:35:45,211 --> 00:35:47,279 you might have, like, a handful of those. 839 00:35:47,379 --> 00:35:48,947 - Maggie nods her head. 840 00:35:49,047 --> 00:35:50,949 And Duncan closes his eyes. 841 00:35:51,049 --> 00:35:55,120 And she gently slides her blade up into the back of his skull. 842 00:35:55,221 --> 00:35:57,656 End of act three. 843 00:35:57,756 --> 00:36:00,226 - We have our traditions. 844 00:36:00,326 --> 00:36:04,330 We always try to celebrate when one of us, you know, 845 00:36:04,430 --> 00:36:06,998 goes off into the world again. 846 00:36:07,098 --> 00:36:09,167 - We love you. - [chuckles] 847 00:36:09,268 --> 00:36:10,769 - We all had a sense that, you know, 848 00:36:10,869 --> 00:36:12,471 time was very precious. 849 00:36:12,571 --> 00:36:14,406 - I'm Michael Cudlitz. - I'm Michael Cudlitz. 850 00:36:14,506 --> 00:36:17,476 all: I'm Michael Cudlitz. 851 00:36:17,576 --> 00:36:19,645 - And we should invest as much in each other 852 00:36:19,745 --> 00:36:22,448 because you never knew when you were gonna lose somebody. 853 00:36:22,548 --> 00:36:24,483 - This is great. 854 00:36:24,583 --> 00:36:27,152 - As time goes on, you get used to people dying. 855 00:36:27,253 --> 00:36:30,088 But we just find ways to make it 856 00:36:30,188 --> 00:36:32,724 ridiculously celebratory and fun. 857 00:36:34,092 --> 00:36:36,094 - Thank you. - European. 858 00:36:36,194 --> 00:36:38,163 - Yeah, he's European. 859 00:36:38,264 --> 00:36:39,465 - It's special. 860 00:36:39,565 --> 00:36:40,766 Take as many of these traditions with us 861 00:36:40,866 --> 00:36:42,000 as we can, I think. 862 00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:44,770 [soft music] 863 00:36:44,870 --> 00:36:46,938 - It's a beautiful way, actually, to say goodbye 864 00:36:47,038 --> 00:36:50,041 to somebody who's been a part of the show for a long time. 865 00:36:50,141 --> 00:36:54,713 * 866 00:36:54,813 --> 00:36:56,448 - You know, everybody comes here to die. 867 00:36:56,548 --> 00:36:58,216 When I meet somebody, that's what I say to them. 868 00:36:58,317 --> 00:36:59,718 Everybody comes here to die. 869 00:36:59,818 --> 00:37:01,453 And some people would be, like, horrified. 870 00:37:01,553 --> 00:37:03,355 But that's what our show is about. 871 00:37:03,455 --> 00:37:10,228 * 872 00:37:10,329 --> 00:37:12,531 - The big departures, it's always like, 873 00:37:12,631 --> 00:37:15,534 everybody's, like, a little, like, choked up, 874 00:37:15,634 --> 00:37:17,269 and it's touching. 875 00:37:19,170 --> 00:37:23,709 But this time, we had to wrap the entire cast, 876 00:37:23,809 --> 00:37:27,613 because for everybody, this was their last episode. 877 00:37:28,747 --> 00:37:30,916 - How are the cast and you preparing for the end? 878 00:37:31,016 --> 00:37:33,051 - [laughs] 879 00:37:33,151 --> 00:37:35,020 Um... 880 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,556 taking a lot of photos, I think. 881 00:37:37,656 --> 00:37:39,891 It's going to be 882 00:37:39,991 --> 00:37:43,028 a mammoth sea of emotion when it happens. 883 00:37:43,128 --> 00:37:44,830 It's just crazy. Yeah. 884 00:37:44,930 --> 00:37:46,898 But we've done something great here, 885 00:37:46,998 --> 00:37:50,035 and we've got something to be so proud of. 886 00:37:50,135 --> 00:37:53,171 And... 887 00:37:53,271 --> 00:37:55,674 dang, this has been-- 888 00:37:55,774 --> 00:37:57,409 it's one in a million. 889 00:37:57,509 --> 00:38:04,650 * 890 00:38:06,385 --> 00:38:11,457 - I went to the IMDb and just scrolled 891 00:38:11,557 --> 00:38:12,791 on and on and on and on, 892 00:38:12,891 --> 00:38:16,862 and there is almost 100 pages here 893 00:38:16,962 --> 00:38:20,566 of cast and crew over these seasons 894 00:38:20,666 --> 00:38:22,934 that have come through these doors 895 00:38:23,034 --> 00:38:25,771 to help make this show come to life. 896 00:38:25,871 --> 00:38:28,774 It's amazing to me to think 897 00:38:28,874 --> 00:38:31,076 that this is what I'm a part of. 898 00:38:31,176 --> 00:38:32,578 [clears throat] 899 00:38:32,678 --> 00:38:35,381 And... 900 00:38:35,481 --> 00:38:39,751 we're a part of something pretty darn incredible. 901 00:38:41,219 --> 00:38:42,654 And I'm grateful. 902 00:38:42,754 --> 00:38:49,728 * 903 00:38:49,828 --> 00:38:51,763 - I know the product 904 00:38:51,863 --> 00:38:54,232 that we put on screen is one thing, 905 00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:57,302 and that's what connects so much of the world 906 00:38:57,403 --> 00:39:00,171 to "The Walking Dead," but for us, 907 00:39:00,271 --> 00:39:03,174 it's these relationships that we share. 908 00:39:03,274 --> 00:39:04,743 - Pan over there. Over there. 909 00:39:04,843 --> 00:39:07,746 [engine revving] [laughs] 910 00:39:07,846 --> 00:39:10,749 - It's been a huge, massive part 911 00:39:10,849 --> 00:39:13,452 of our everyday life. 912 00:39:13,552 --> 00:39:16,588 And that will never happen again, ever. 913 00:39:16,688 --> 00:39:19,925 That's what I'll miss. 914 00:39:20,025 --> 00:39:22,594 - I'm in denial. I'll be really honest. 915 00:39:22,694 --> 00:39:24,463 You know, I'll look at Norman, and he'll be like, 916 00:39:24,563 --> 00:39:26,364 "It's gonna get sad." 917 00:39:28,133 --> 00:39:30,969 - It's very, um... 918 00:39:31,069 --> 00:39:33,972 surreal to think that it's all ending now. 919 00:39:34,072 --> 00:39:36,675 - I've definitely had moments where I'm like, "Oh, wow, 920 00:39:36,775 --> 00:39:40,779 this is the last time this and that is gonna happen." 921 00:39:40,879 --> 00:39:42,548 - I'm nervous about saying goodbye. 922 00:39:42,648 --> 00:39:43,882 I'm not gonna lie. 923 00:39:43,982 --> 00:39:47,185 * 924 00:39:47,285 --> 00:39:50,155 - I think I'm just gonna make an Irish exit. 925 00:39:50,255 --> 00:39:52,724 - I haven't said goodbye yet, and I don't plan to. 926 00:39:52,824 --> 00:39:55,193 - I'll just dip out. 927 00:39:55,293 --> 00:39:56,795 It'll be too hard. 928 00:39:56,895 --> 00:39:58,630 - So I'm just gonna kind of walk away, 929 00:39:58,730 --> 00:40:00,666 and then I know I'll see everybody again, 930 00:40:00,766 --> 00:40:03,469 and we'll just leave it at that. 931 00:40:03,569 --> 00:40:05,737 - Personally, I'm trying to get as many moments 932 00:40:05,837 --> 00:40:08,874 individually with people as I can. 933 00:40:08,974 --> 00:40:12,377 I'm trying to not be fearful about sharing 934 00:40:12,478 --> 00:40:14,913 just how much I love them. 935 00:40:15,013 --> 00:40:18,884 - I hope it's not goodbye. [laughs] 936 00:40:18,984 --> 00:40:21,520 These are my best friends. 937 00:40:23,489 --> 00:40:26,858 - That's a series wrap on Mr. JDM. 938 00:40:26,958 --> 00:40:28,259 [cheers and applause] 939 00:40:28,359 --> 00:40:29,828 That is a wrap on Khary. 940 00:40:29,928 --> 00:40:31,429 [cheers and applause] 941 00:40:31,530 --> 00:40:33,331 Series wrap on Josh. 942 00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:35,000 [cheers and applause] 943 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:37,769 Series wrap on Christian. [cheers and applause] 944 00:40:37,869 --> 00:40:40,572 Mr. Norman Reedus, Daryl. [cheers and applause] 945 00:40:40,672 --> 00:40:42,340 Series wrap on Melissa. 946 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:43,942 [cheers and applause] 947 00:40:44,042 --> 00:40:45,410 - Love you guys a lot. 948 00:40:45,511 --> 00:40:47,613 - It was truly an honor being here with you. 949 00:40:47,713 --> 00:40:50,048 - Thank you. It's really been 950 00:40:50,148 --> 00:40:52,217 one of the best experiences of my life. 951 00:40:52,317 --> 00:40:53,619 - The one thing we have is that 952 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,186 we were all in the trenches together. 953 00:40:55,286 --> 00:40:57,523 No one can ever take that away from us. 954 00:40:57,623 --> 00:40:59,625 - And I won't forget you. I appreciate you. 955 00:40:59,725 --> 00:41:03,228 - We could lose our friends, people we love. 956 00:41:03,328 --> 00:41:05,697 It's not about us anymore. 957 00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:07,232 It's about a future. 958 00:41:11,637 --> 00:41:14,105 - Do I want the fans to be happy with the show? 959 00:41:14,205 --> 00:41:15,406 Yeah, of course. 960 00:41:15,507 --> 00:41:16,808 The fans and the cast and the crew 961 00:41:16,908 --> 00:41:18,309 and everybody else 962 00:41:18,409 --> 00:41:20,445 has a real relationship with the outside world 963 00:41:20,546 --> 00:41:22,548 through the show. 964 00:41:22,648 --> 00:41:25,450 You know, the number of families 965 00:41:25,551 --> 00:41:26,752 that have come to me, 966 00:41:26,852 --> 00:41:28,887 thanked me for playing the character, 967 00:41:28,987 --> 00:41:31,790 how I play the character, and... 968 00:41:31,890 --> 00:41:34,125 Daryl's tough, so it's helped me get through stuff. 969 00:41:34,225 --> 00:41:37,729 You know, things like that have meant the world to me. 970 00:41:37,829 --> 00:41:39,765 - It just means so much to us 971 00:41:39,865 --> 00:41:42,901 that people are able to have that escape. 972 00:41:43,001 --> 00:41:44,636 - There are fans who tell our actors, 973 00:41:44,736 --> 00:41:47,338 like, this show gave me 974 00:41:47,438 --> 00:41:49,741 something to talk to my dad about 975 00:41:49,841 --> 00:41:52,778 or it allowed me to come out to my family. 976 00:41:52,878 --> 00:41:56,314 - I know for me, I am eternally grateful 977 00:41:56,414 --> 00:41:58,483 to have been a part of it. 978 00:41:58,584 --> 00:42:02,721 That being said, there are new things on the horizon. 979 00:42:05,624 --> 00:42:07,192 - We loved being on the show. 980 00:42:07,292 --> 00:42:09,027 We loved making the show. 981 00:42:09,127 --> 00:42:11,997 It's been us against the world down here. 982 00:42:12,097 --> 00:42:15,834 But outside of here, it's just one big happy family. 983 00:42:15,934 --> 00:42:23,041 * 984 00:42:28,213 --> 00:42:36,254 * 985 00:42:39,057 --> 00:42:47,098 * 986 00:42:50,969 --> 00:42:55,073 *