Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg also get into Strand’s conversion to Anton.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forFear the Walking Deadseason 8, episode 7, “Anton.”
Victor Strand is back!
Daniel Sharman and Colman Domingo on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’.Lauren “Lo” Smith/AMC
Only now he’s not Victor Strand.
At least hesayshe’s not Victor Strand.
But that’s not fooling anybody.
Colman Domingo and Isha Blaaker on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’.Lauren “Lo” Smith/AMC
Oh, and he was speaking German, and actually speaking it really well!
It didn’t work.
They were captured and then came face-to-dented-face with the group’s leader a nemesis from their past.
Daniel Sharman on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’.Lauren “Lo” Smith/AMC
And Colman had a lot of fun jumping in and learning German.
But it really was about building to this moment where we first see Strand.
We just really wanted the audience to say like, “Wait, what is going on?
Kim Dickens on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’.Lauren “Lo” Smith/AMC
Who’s this guy?”
It was really all about feeling that dislocation.
Is he doing it for other people?
Is he doing it for himself?
He really does love Frank and Klaus.
They really have become a family to him, and he really is doing good within this community.
He’s done a complete 180 from the Strand of season 7 in the tower.
Have you really escaped your past?
Can you really move forward?
And it felt like having someone return from their past seemed like the way to do it.
And the more we talked about it, the more excited we got about that person being Troy Otto.
And you’re right, we’d never written for the character.
We had never worked with Daniel Sharman.
They loved the dynamic and the dance that those characters did together in the past.
And so they were really excited to get in there and explore this next chapter for Madison and Troy.
How much should we believe Troy when he says he killed Alicia?
GOLDBERG:Well, it’s complicated because he does have her arm.
That’s definitely Alicia’s arm.
But we will be exploring that further, and we will be answering exactly how he got that arm.
Tory asks Madison at the end what she is fighting for: So whatisshe fighting for?
Both her children are gone.
It’s why everything went so south at Broke Jaw Ranch.
It’s why she ultimately ended up trying to kill Troy at the end of season 3.
