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'The Walking Dead' Star Lauren Cohan On What It's Like Filming, Watching The Season 6 Finale
- Christian Saclao , Design & Trend
- Apr, 14, 2016, 10:56 PM
Despite the dark nature of "The Walking Dead" season 6 finale, Lauren Cohan revealed that filming the episode of is one of her favorite experiences as an actress.
During an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Cohan said that the final sequence of the season, where Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) finally made his much anticipated debut, was "brutal" and "heinous."
"[But] on some sort of masochistic level, it's one of my favorite experiences in my career, just because we were so connected," explained the 34-year-old actress who plays Maggie on the hit AMC series.
"It's kind of a 'method' cast," Cohan said of her and her co-stars' acting style particularly for that two days of shoot for the final scene of the season. "Sadistically I think we all just wanted to be in it for those two days."
The "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" star said that she watched the finale on April 4 herself, and she admitted that it still affected her emotionally even though she was on it and already knew what happened.
"I watched the episode and got gut-wrenched even though I knew what happened," she said. "It was pretty crazy, and I think that the fan reaction is definitely testament to the depth of that."
When asked who Negan killed, Cohan simply said: "I'd love to tell you ... [but] I don't know what's going to happen next."
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In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, executive producer Greg Nicotero -- who also directed the season finale -- said that the cast didn't know who was dying when they were filming the last sequence of the season.
"It was specifically written that way. The POV shot looking up at Negan in that last moment, I don't think anyone on that knew what happened," Nicotero said. "As a matter of fact, if I'm not mistaken, I think we had wrapped all of the actors, because the shot we did with Negan, the sun was coming up and Jeffrey was about to get on a plane and fly back to New York and we didn't have anybody there because we didn't want even somebody on the crew or somebody there to go, 'Oh I get it, I know what's going to happen.' So I think they were all gone. We built a little rig for Jeffrey to hit so that there would be impact with the baseball bat."
The identity of the doomed character will be revealed in the season 7 premiere, but Nicotero told The Wall Street Journal that "a few people know [who dies] but not many."
Who do you think died? Share your theories in the comments below!
"The Walking Dead" season 7 premieres in October on AMC.
