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Norman Reedus has added large substance to the occurrence erstwhile it comes to Melissa McBride's imaginable engagement successful a Walking Dead spinoff series. Find retired what helium said astir Carol and Daryl reuniting.
Norman Reedus Breaks Down His "Crocodile Dundee" Knives!
Carol and Daryl volition (probably) thrust again.
After Melissa McBride dropped retired of a planned Walking Dead spinoff starring her quality Carol and Norman Reedus' Daryl successful April, citing the production's determination overseas, fans of the zombie fearfulness franchise were near disappointed.
However, Reedus, who is inactive reprising his quality successful the spinoff, says there's inactive plentifulness of crushed for optimism that McBride volition appear—even if it is further down the roadworthy than fans hoped.
"You don't cognize she's not going to amusement up connected the spinoff," he told Variety Sept. 23. "I'll conscionable permission it astatine that. She's a precise large portion of Daryl's story. It's each gonna beryllium OK."
Well that's rather a shift! But Reedus gave a beauteous straightforward explanation.
"The spinoff was announced earlier we adjacent announced The Walking Dead was ending," helium said. "We ever thought we were doing a amusement that would travel backmost to the flagship show—we'd instrumentality off, past travel backmost to the flagship show."
Reedus further detailed that once it was announced that The Walking Dead would end aft play 11, they "shot for a twelvemonth and a fractional straight, done the opening of COVID" and McBride simply needed immoderate clip off.
Reedus expressed akin sentiments astir his and McBride's characters earlier this period erstwhile asked astir the spinoff.
"Their journey's not over," Reedus told Entertainment Weekly Sept. 6. "They volition conscionable down the road. You tin beauteous overmuch stake each your money. I work each these radical whining astir it, and I person to conscionable support my rima shut, but determination volition beryllium a batch of foots successful a batch of mouths astatine immoderate point."
He hasn't precisely learned that acquisition astir keeping his rima shut—not that we're complaining!
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Lest you deliberation Reedus mightiness conscionable beryllium stringing america along, McBride herself confirmed that we can astir apt expect much Carol down the line, arsenic well.
"I consciousness similar Carol has much communicative to tell," she told EW Sept. 6. "I'll permission it astatine that. I deliberation she's got immoderate much story."
Consider america convinced.
The 2nd portion of The Walking Dead's 11th and last season premieres Oct. 2 connected AMC.
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