I just hit you in the face.
It is a line so brutal and heart-wrenching thatMorgan told EWthat he initially fought hard against even saying it.
(“I fought it!”
Norman Reedus on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
says Morgan of uttering Negan’s shocking line.
“I immediately called and was like, ‘I can’t say it.
I can’t f—ing bring up Glenn’s name here.'")
And, it turns out, the initial reaction of the actor matches that of his character.
“Daryl snaps in the beginning, like, just shut up!”
“No one’s listening to you.
You’re making things worse, just ‘cause you yap all the time.
But Reedus also thinks there was something else behind that fist to the face.
“I think Daryl punches him kind of to save his life,” he says.
“I think he was just so frustrated,” says Reedus.
“No, one’s listening to him.
Maggie keeps making the wrong decisions, the wrong decisions, the wrong decisions.
“And what Negan is saying is kind of getting to some of the people in the other group.
And then I think he just says that because it feels like no one’s listening to him.
He’s like, ‘I’ll get their attention.’
And then Daryl pops him for what he said.”
Pop him he does.
Oh no, does that mean Daryl may have actually inadvertently just killed Maggie?
We’re now going to go and punch ourselves for thinking such a thing.
