The actor has the perfect prescription for the post-apocalypse blues.
For someone who often wants to be alone, Daryl Dixon sure does care a lot about other people.
“He’s never doing anything for himself, ever.”
Norman Reedus on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
“He needs a massage.
You know what I mean?
He is a selfless guy.
He needs some ‘me time’ really bad.”
Has that sunken in?
Does it feel like the end yet?
I live in Georgia pretty much.
I live in New York, but I only go there when I’m on vacation from here really.
And it’s been like that for a long time.
So yeah, do I sell my house here?
I’ve got a garage full of motorcycles.
What do I do with them?
There’s all those types of life questions that pop up all the time.
But some of our crew have been here since day one, so we talk about the show ending.
Somebody asked me the other day, “Why do you want to do a spin-off?”
I can’t just end on an episode.
I put too much work into that state!
It has to come full circle.
I have to solve the riddle.
I have to find my Rubik’s Cube.
I have to put it back together.
It’s a whole thing.
I have to or I’m going to go nuts.
So yeah, it comes up all the time.
It’s going to come really fast.
Those last two months are going to go by in like a week.
How would you describe Daryl’s journey in these first eight episodes of season 11?
What happens is Maggie comes back and she’s being chased.
And that story comes full circle with the group he was in and turns into something completely different.
and everything’s suddenly in Technicolor.
It’s completely different.
It’s kind of Willy Wonkalike all of a sudden, and it’s completely out of our norm.
And then, in that world, we’re confused and trying to figure it out.
What can we expect from their relationship moving ahead?
Hopefully, some closure.
We haven’t quite gotten to that right now, so I am not totally sure.
I know she’s in one area of the world, and I’m in another.
We haven’t quite addressed that.
So we’ve been doing it for a while now.
That question about them keeps coming up, so hopefully everybody gets closure on those things they want.
Speaking of closure, we saw that thread with the character of Leah out there.
What can you say about that potentially picking up again at some point?
Yeah, that definitely gets picked back up again.
There’s a bit of a double agent thing going on.
