Oh, but the trickery doesn't stop there. As we already mentioned, Nicotero revealed in his interview with The Hollywood Reporter that Jeffrey Dean Morgan was alone when he filmed the scene, and they used a rig to simulate Lucille hitting a body. What's strange, though, is Jeffrey's statement about the cliffhanger. In an interview with Vulture, he admitted, "I didn't know it was going to be a cliffhanger until I watched the show." If you really think about it, that doesn't make sense at all. Morgan had to know it'd be a cliffhanger . . . if it went down the way Nicotero says it did.
Take a second to mull it over. There's one context in which Morgan's comment makes sense: they filmed the whole death scene, and decided to make it a cliffhanger later. How else would that explain his surprise? If he had filmed the scene all alone, without the other actors reacting and screaming around him, he would absolutely have an idea of how the ending would look. He would be able to assume it would be a cliffhanger. The fact that he didn't know about the cliffhanger suggests that they cut the ending short. Plain and simple.
