“Let’s bring on some more of that!”
“When I had to put on a show to protect my people.”
Little did he know then that another show was soon to commence.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan on ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.Peter Kramer/AMC
But he was only getting started.
““Who’s there?
“Butter"“Butter who?
Jeffrey Dean Morgan on ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.Peter Kramer/AMC
““Well, you butter get out your umbrellas because it is about to goddamn rain!”
(He then threw the body over the railing for good measure.)
And no one was more excited to see it than Morgan.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan on ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.Peter Kramer/AMC
“I’ve been saying for years, ‘Look, Negan’s still in there.’
The Negan that you love to hate is still in this guy.
No matter what we venture to do in a redemptive way with this character, Negan is Negan.
“I was pulled from the audience right before that scene played,” Morgan says.
Because I’ve been saying, ‘Look, they want to see it.
I know they want to see the old Negan.’
And the way it went over made me really happy.
So let’s bring on some more of that!”
“It could have been played a few different ways,” Morgan says.
“The way that I always looked at it was it is almost like, ‘Oh s—.
She saw behind the curtain.’
And I think he genuinely has been trying to change, especially when he was with our group.”
Morgan notes that this episode is key to understanding Negan’s psyche and the method beyond the apparent madness.
I didn’t do this s— frivolously.
I put on a show to save my people.'
Negan believes that with all his heart.”
He just happens to be someone who knows how to be effective.
And his way of being effective and making change is bringing out that showman.
He did it in the lineup, and he did it in the bank scene.
Now that it has, what happens next is anyone guess.
