THE WALKING DEAD Producer On Lori's Whisper

Executive producer Robert Kirkman offers his thoughts on last night’s action-packed The Walking Dead, including Lori’s snakey whisper, and reflects on those huge midseason premiere numbers.

On the action-packed “Triggerfinger”:

I mean, look, there’s all that tension in the bar with those people outside and we barely even see them. It was a really cool move on [the part of showrunner] Glen Mazzera working with David Leslie Johnson on this script. They’re this strange outside threat and I think it makes them more scary because everything is played inside and it’s all done off the looks of Scott Wilson and Steven Yeun and Andrew Lincoln. I think the performances in that scene are tremendous.
What we’re doing in this second half of the season is taking characters we’ve gotten to know and putting them in situations you wouldn’t expect them to be in and doing things that we haven’t really seen them do. Seeing Hershel and Glenn move into kind of action hero mode, albeit briefly, is kind of a cool thing. And, also in this episode, Lori being surviving that car crash and fighting that zombie, off…. It’s important to recognize that Shane does come but he comes after she’s taken care of the situation. This woman is very capable and it’s cool to see her rise to the occasion and be able to handle that and show that she is a strong individual and is capable of existing in this world. The back half of this season is really going to be about learning more about these characters and seeing what they are capable of.

On interpreting Lori’s deathly whisper to Rick:

Yeah, she’s terrified and with good reason. She could possibly be maliciously directing Rick towards a course of action or she could be, in her own, way, saying, “I’m terrified and I don’t know what to do.” There are a lot of different ways that you can interpret that scene.

On the huge midseason premiere ratings:

I am somewhat of a pessimist and and I was convinced we were going to have a little bit of a dip. I guess people like the show! [Laughs] Here’s the secret, really, and other networks should take note of this, because I think this is really the key to the Walking Dead’s success: I have a very large family.

Source: EW

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