She knows, but she’s not telling.
“I’m right here,” complained her son.
“But you don’t see me.”
Logan Kim and Lauren Cohan on ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.Peter Kramer/AMC
Maggie’s response in the scene may have been silent, but to Cohan, the exchange spoke volumes.
That’s easier said than done when you’re dealing with a teenager.
“It’s coming from a place of hurt and anger for him,” notes Cohan.
Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan on ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.Peter Kramer/AMC
“Obviously, I can remember being a teenager where you lash out and you’re angry.
The fact that there was no happy ending to this reunion is both relatable and realistic.
“And it’s not fixed at the end of this.
Getting him back isn’t fixing it.
It’s like, give it another spin.
And they’re really pushed to the wall of determining the way through.”
But it doesn’t work that way, because you just end up losing what you got.
And I don’t want to keep doing that anymore.
I don’t know how, but this thing with Negan…
I’m gonna finish it.
So I can just let it go.”
So what exactly does finishing this thing with Negan mean?
Turns out Cohan knows, but doesn’t want to tell us.
“I am hesitant to say,” hedges the star.
And I love seeing how differently people take it.
So I certainly know what it is, and it makes me more excited to do a second season.
And it was not what I ever imagined."
