The star also helped craft the story on the screen.
“I just listened to Melissa talk about her hopes and dreams for storytelling with this character.
And in her mind, there was a lot of unfinished business she wanted to attend to.”
Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier on ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon — The Book of Carol’.Emmanuel Guimier/AMC
That conversation between Gimple and McBride mirrored another one she had withDaryl Dixonshowrunner David Zabel.
I said, Melissa, what are the things in the show that you feel we should explore?
recalls Zabel, whilein Madrid for filmingon season 3.
Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier in season 2 of ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’.Emmanuel Guimier/AMC
Adds costar Norman Reedus, We had such a big cast in Georgia.
You don’t get to service every storyline because there’s just so much of us.
Its a sentiment echoed by McBride herself.
Laurie Holden, Norman Reedus, Jon Bernthal, Melissa Suzanne McBride, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Chandler Riggs on ‘The Walking Dead’.Gene Page/AMC
There was always more story to tell for Carol on the original show, she says.
And we’re hitting on quite a bit of that in the spinoff.
I had a fair amount of input, McBride says.
What I was most interested in tackling was the unresolved feelings of survivor’s guilt."
And that traumatic event first seen on screen 13 years ago naturally connects Carol right back to Daryl.
Carol has had this traumatic trajectory that started with Sophia, the showrunner notes.
