Steven Yeun Shares More Heartbreak in the Wake of Glenn's Death on The Walking Dead
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While we're all still in mourning after this week's tragic premiere of The Walking Dead, at least it's over. We can now say goodbye to Glenn and Abe, Negan's unlucky victims. The actors who play them, Steven Yeun and Michael Cudlitz, recently spilled on why they're OK with the way their characters go out . . . even if we're not. As we go further into the week, more quotes and heartbreaks have poured out. Here are some of the more poignant bits of sadness we've heard so far.
Steven Yeun on Glenn's death
Directly after the premiere, Yeun appeared on AMC's postmortem show, Talking Dead. Here's what he had to say about Glenn:
"The death in the comic, Robert [Kirkman] wrote such a messed up — but at the same time, incredible — way to take something away, to make a story as impactful as it is. When you read that comic, you kind of don't want that to go to anyone else. It's such an iconic moment. I think I even said that — 'Don't give that to anyone else.' It's such a gnarly thing to say, but sincerely, living that out was very wild, but at the same time, that moment happening and being realized on television in a different medium and to do it in the way that we did it, I think is brave and at the same time super affecting. For me, that was motivation to be like, 'OK, that's great . . .' Glenn died in a very Glenn way. That's what my wife, Jo, said. He died in such a Glenn way, which is perfect — still not thinking about himself. I think it's appropriate that he ends there, and it's also appropriate that he puts those last words out as a final 'look out for each other.'"
On Wednesday, Entertainment Weekly released new Yeun quotes from their TWD cover story:
"I don't know if I've fully processed it yet . . . This is something that will hit me maybe a couple of months from now. Or maybe it'll hit me next year. Maybe it'll be when I'm 45 and all of a sudden I'm just crying in my kitchen and I can't explain why. At that point, it was beautiful in that it was so easy for me to get emotional. Personally, for me, I'm not one to cry all the time. I don't cry much in real life. And when you do not cry in real life, the moments that you do cry are very, very fulfilling and cathartic. You realize, maybe I should cry more in general . . . It was a really confusing time for me personally. It was a sense of relief that a chapter was closing, a sense of accomplishment in looking back and seeing all the things that I got to be a part of, a sense of sadness in knowing that I don't get to work with these people in the same capacity again, and a sense of confusion because I didn't know how to place a lot of it because I had to keep it secret."
Michael Cudlitz on Abe's death
Here's what Cudlitz had to say during Talking Dead on Sunday night:
"For anyone who follows the graphic novel, [Abe] is on borrowed time. Denise took his death graciously two episodes prior . . . so I think at that point I had gone beyond where he was in the graphic novel. I know [Kirkman] always said he was not happy with how he took Abraham out in the graphic novel so I was curious to see where we go from there . . . In the group he made it very clear to Negan that if he was going to take somebody, take me if it's going to help protect the rest of the group."