The Walking Dead’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan wishes Carl and Negan had more time
In a touching tribute, Jeffrey Dean Morgan wishes Carl and Negan had more time on The Walking Dead to explore a comics-accurate storyline.
ForThe Walking Dead fans, last Sunday’s episode, titled “Honor,” was a tough one to watch without some tissues ready. We lost one of the show’s most prominent and beloved characters, Carl Grimes.
His departure from TWD was a hard blow to the AMC show’s cast, particularly to Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
In a touching Instagram post, Morgan shares he will “forever be disappointed” that the show didn’t get to explore Negan and Carl’s relationship from the comic series.
Negan may be cruel and crass, but Morgan showed the complete opposite when expressing how much he’ll miss Chandler Riggs and the character he became on the show.
“Well before joining this cast I was a fan… a fan that loved watching you grow up in front of a camera,” Morgan said. “From the moment you first put on the way too large sheriffs hat as a boy… to the end, the hat so befitting of the man Carl had become. Wiser and more compassionate than all of us. You held all of our hearts.”
Pause. Get a tissue. OK, we can keep going.
Morgan went on to say he wished that the two had more time on set together, as he was a big fan of Negan and Carl’s relationship in the comics. This is a reference to the “All Out War” storyline, where Negan is finally defeated by Rick along with Ezekial’s Kingdom and the Hilltop.
Rather than kill Negan, Rick decides to show mercy and imprisons him instead. While behind bars, Negan is visited by Carl and the two form an unusual bond.
Riggs even noted in an interview that aired ahead of the mid-season premiere that Carl has “never really been afraid of Negan.”
“I don’t think he sees Negan as a threat,” Riggs said. “He just sees him as an annoyance getting in the way of a better world.”
To boot, Morgan in the same featured interview adds that Negan’s respect for Carl is major and he sees the boy as “the future of this world.”
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Sadly, that future is one the show will never get to see.
Instead, we’ll wait to see how Carl’s death impacts all of the groups, from Rick and his crew to the Kingdom and Hilltop, and ultimately Negan and the Saviors.