The Walking Dead star, Norman Reedus, said his friend and former colleague Andrew Lincoln agrees that the series has undergone a creative renaissance with showrunner Angela Kang
"It's funny because I talked to Andy the other day," Reedus told EW with a laugh. "And he was like," Cabbage, I chose the wrong time to leave the show because it's so beautiful right now. "And I answered" Yes, you did, friend. You chose the wrong time. "
"I love the risks she took," added Norman Reedus from Kang, the writer and producer of the series since her second season in 2011. "I love what Angela is doing at the show. It's very punk rock, Angela Kang. Jump in. There is a trust with our team and with our cast and with our narration that we have gained over the years. If you're going to risk it, now it's time to take risks, and they're all paying. After nine years, you have to reinvent yourself a little. I just want to do the show we want to do, and it seems to be what we're doing. You can hear it in the crew. You can hear it in the cast. You can hear it in the scripts. It's the show we want to do. "
Upon appearing at the San Diego Comic-Con in July, where Lincoln publicly announced for the first time that he was leaving the show, the actor said that the Kang administration had brought with it a feeling that recalled the vibrations of the first day , inaugurated by the original showrunner Frank Darabont.
"We need to talk about Angela Kang if we talk about this season because it is the creative force of this season," Lincoln told ComicBook.com. "She's been on the show since the second season and I think she gave us new life and gave us a collaborative feeling on the set and even just an energy. A true positive energy. It looks like the show where I always thought about coming when I shot the pilot in Atlanta nine years ago. "
Lincoln, who moved away from the mother series after five episodes of his ninth season in November, never attended the show, but paused on the set to prepare for Walking Dead's directorial debut in season 10. He will then return as Rick Grimes in a trilogy of television films that explain Rick's 6-year death, a change that allows Lincoln to shoot an abbreviated film giving him time for the family.