Interviewers were buzzing with energy at the pressroom for The Walking Dead, eager to get some intel on AMC’s apocalyptic-zombie show whose second season returns October 16th. It appears there is a genuine market for the otherworldly on TV, and AMC has put its own mark on the genre with its penchant for great storytelling. Here, I talk with cast members Laurie Holden (Andrea) and Norman Reedus (Daryl) as well as legendary sci-fi producer Gale Anne Hurd about the new season. In it, they discuss the production of shooting the highway scenes, what sort of romance might be in store, as well as their weapons of choice should they ever find themselves in the zombie-world they portray. Find the full transcript after the jump.
Question: Tell us something about the new season that’s been really fun to shoot
HOLDEN: Oh everything’s been fun to shoot
HURD: Oh well I think that the highway, I mean that was really big. We actually closed down a Georgia highway for a number of days. We were on the local news because we caused traffic jams.
Your own Carmageddon.
HURD: Except it was a real Caramgeddon (laughs).
HOLDEN: It was a real Carmageddon and a helicopter kept coming above the freeway and circling.
HURD: And we were like “Wait wait wait, there were no helicopters in the zombie apocaplypse!”
HOLDEN: And we though “Hm maybe we should point the gun at them but then figured they’d probably really shoot us.”
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