“It didn’t taste like chocolate”

The Walking Dead: Dead City gave the first glimpse of the second season of the spin-off zombie series at the Comic Con in San Diego. The main actors also gave the grim promise of a war in New York, in which Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) will be involved, the wonderfully disgusting Anecdote of a cockroach dinner after.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan ate cockroaches for season 2 of The Walking Dead spin-off – and everyone knew it except him In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Jeffrey Dean Morgan talked about his involuntarily disgusting meal in season 2, with Lauren Cohan having to tease out the embarrassment from her long-time Walking Dead co-star. Morgan found herself in a “exposed as an idiot“, but finally told about it:Because Negan [in Staffel 2] When Negan is back and has been locked up for half his life, he eats cockroaches. Half of his plate was made up of real cockroaches because they look good on camera and the other half was made up of chocolate.

This is quite common practice for a convincing shot in films and series like The Walking Dead. So far, so standard. But then the following happened:

But nobody told me that and Without my glasses I can’t see anything. I just saw brown blobs on a plate and ate them. And when the [erste] Recording was over, I said: ‘It didn’t taste like cream and chocolate.’ […] So I kept complaining and everyone looked at me like an idiot.
At some point little legs were sticking out of my teeth and I realized that I had eaten cockroaches. Nobody told me that there were real ones in there. That was obviously not an option. Chocolate and vanilla cream, I was told. No. II probably ate 20 real cockroaches in front of everyone and everyone knew what was going on except me.

Looking back, Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan can laugh about it and compares himself and his involuntary “method acting” with the probably best-known method actor Daniel Day-Lewis, who also always completely immerses himself in his roles.

When is The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 coming out?

The reunion with Maggie and Negan in The Walking Dead: Dead City awaits us next year. Season 2 with the cockroach scene starts in 2025But this year we will get new episodes of the Daryl Dixon series, which is also starting its second season.

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