Read on as the actors describe their favorite zombie-slaying adventures!
Andrew Lincoln(Rick)
My favorite walker kill has to always be your first.
I saw this woman on the floor wearing a green unitard and I didnt know quite what was happening.
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And they just explained that it was going to be digitized out.
So I had to put her down.
And gut-bag is one of my particular favorites, with Norman.
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Theyve all been great.
I think I knocked him down.
He hasnt been back since.
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I mean just holding a flimsy, metal license plate in my hand.
The cool thing about it was the choreography of it.
David was actually a walker.
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Its funny because he looks like a f—ing walker.
He has just the perfect face for the walker makeup.
Two walkers come at us, and hes my walker.
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Coleman was the walker.
Hes been a walker on our set probably like 30 or 40 times.
I think they keep using him because he just looks emaciated or something.
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I dont think the guy eats enough.
I wasnt expecting it when we were shooting that.
I was expecting him to come after me, but not with such ferocity!
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So I was like, Good.
I dont want to kill them.
I dont want those to be his first kills because its a big deal.
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He was like, Yeah.
Hes got two kills under his belt now.
And I was like, Oh, alright.
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No, Michonne kills efficiently, not enjoyably.
But I, Dania Gurira, enjoy it.
But there are so many!
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But then I just kind of kept going and [director Greg Nicotero] just never called cut.
They just let me go and the folks playing the walkers were so awesome.
I was very responsible.
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I was very tied into the kill.
I slowed the guy down.
Well, I stopped him.
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So I slowed him down and I stopped him or her.
She’s more experienced in knowing how and where to place the knife.
He got the assist.
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He did break out.
It’s so outside his character to break out of the fear and go running at it.
Go ahead, you want to do it so much.
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I think it was generous because he knew she wanted to.
That was definitely a lot of fun.
It was ridiculous, but that day was a lot of fun.
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That whole episode was a lot of fun.
There was just something really moving and sweet about the walker that Carol had to put down.
I think thats really one of the more memorable ones.
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Tom Payne(Jesus)
I think from that first episode, shooting the one behind Norman.
That was kind of cool.
It was just fun.
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I was like, This is cool.
Im having fun with it!
Pollyanna McIntosh(Jadis)
Pollyanna McIntosh has yet to have her first walker kill.
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As she says: I suppose Jadis walker kill was putting Rick in there with Winslow.
So what would she like for her first?
Id like to think that Id do it fast and straight in the head.
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Im always impressed when Im watching them do that, stabbing in the head.
I hope Id have the balls to just go straight in right up to the face.
I think Id really like to use that knife that Jadis has on her all the time.
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She has this great railway spike flattened into a knife on her jacket.
And then give one of her very short one-liners.
Survival instinct just kicked in and Im doomed forever.
It was a slow kill.
It was a slow strangle until the head popped off.
It wasnt quick, it was kind of drawn out, and that was cool to me.
That was cooler to me than just taking a hatchet to the skull, you know?
It was slow and he got the strength to get the head off of the body.
Norman Reedus(Daryl)
There was one in the courtyard.
It looks so dope.
But you see me coming down and BOOM!
I remember him giving me that and being like,oh, man, that guys got my back.
Hes not just doing the camera.
It was really cool.
Katelyn Nacon(Enid)
She hasnt really killed a lot of walkers.
I thought that was genius because why exert effort when you dont need to?
you could just distract them in a different way and then make your way out of there.
The only time in my first season I saw walkers was at lunch.
I mean, I dont want to just shoot one.
I want to have fun with them.
I want Simon to be screaming.
That would be fun.
If youre going to do it, youve got to do it like that, man.
Just guts and glory.
We dont have to do that again!It worked out perfectly, so for me that was great.
For my buddy that was splatting the blood against my face, it was great.
Khary Payton(Ezekiel)
I dont really have a favorite one yet.
I love my first one, of course.
You always love your first.
Because that one was very contemplative.
It wasnt your normal kind of manic kill.
It was like I was giving last rites to this dude, you know?
I was like, Is that you?
And you could just barely hear him but he said, Yeah its me.
I was like, We going to do this again?
He was like, Yeah, lets do it again.
Lennie James(Morgan)
My favorite walker kill?
I quite liked taking out Benedict, the main Wolf.
