Even Andrew Lincoln thinks The Walking Dead went overboard with the killing of Glenn

The Walking Dead killed a lot of people when the show was on. Some deaths were deserved, some felt unfair, some were kind of funny, but not many stuck with audiences like Steven Yeun’s Glenn death. Like in the comics, Glenn is beaten to death with Negan’s spiked baseball bat, and that was a pretty big deal at the time, so much so that an Arkansas newspaper actually published an obituary for him days later.

Some people quit the show when he was kicked out, and even former lead actor Andrew Lincoln admitted that the show may have gone too far with Glenn. Speaking to Empire Magazine about his time on the show, he said at the time the show “overdid it. (That death) may have lingered too long.” The actual filming of the death was also pretty intense, he added, especially for Negan actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Lincoln recalled Morgan giving a monologue in front of everyone and being “one of the most uncomfortable characters (on the show).” As the other actors were on their knees crying, Morgan asked him if that was normal, to which Lincoln’s Rick Grimes confirmed: “Yeah, everyone just keeps going.”

Glenn’s death caused a lot of excitement at the time, not helped by the fact that he had suffered a faked death just a few episodes earlier. You know the story after that: Lincoln left the show a few seasons later (both he and Yeun returned for the series finale, either through archive footage or newly shot footage) and eventually returned for the current miniseries Those who liveYeun, meanwhile, made headlines with projects such as Nope, beef, And Invincible, and was once the Sentry in the Thunderbolts film before he says goodbye. Nevertheless, it hasn’t been that long since the original Walking dead The show is over, so it’s unlikely anyone will forget Glenn’s ending anytime soon.

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