Andrew Lincoln on whyThe Walking Deadwill be great without him

How canThe Walking Deadcontinue on without its lead character and star?

Its a question many have asked with theimminent departure of Andrew Lincolns Rick Grimes.

In fact, Lincoln seems convinced he needed to leave for the show to continue to thrive.

The show will live on and it will continue to be great.

There have been other big changes as well, likeAngela Kang assuming daily showrunning dutiesfrom Scott M. Gimple.

I think Angela and everybody involved in it are performing out of their socks.

To the best of their ability theyre putting it all out there.

Its a really exciting landscape that all of the characters are inhabiting.

But Lincoln believes he would have stunted the story had he stuck around in a full-time capacity.

And thats what I think is happening now.

And that is enormously gratifying.

There is one big problem with that, however.

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