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Chad L. Coleman: The Walking Dead ’s Gentle Giant WORDS BY DIO ANTHONY
AT THIS POINT IN THE GAME, FANS OF AMC’S WIDLY POPULAR ZOMBIE SERIES KNOW THAT TYREESE HAS SEEN BETTER DAYS. HE’S A SOFTIE IN A DANGEROUS NEW WORLD. CHAD L. COLEMAN SAT DOWN WITH ME AND LET ME PICK HIS BRAIN ON ALL THINGS WALKING DEAD. ONE THING’S FOR SURE: HE IS ALMOST POSITIVE THE SERIES’ WINTER PREMIERE (EPISODE 9) WILL ROCK OUR WALKER SOCKS RIGHT OFF. Last season, the episodes following the winter premiere with Tyreese, this big burly man, and these three very distinct fragile girls was so powerful in more ways than one. What was lingering in your mind during the production of all those scenes? photo credit: Bobby Quillard (BobbyQuillardInc.com)
A huge amount of gratitude to be able to play against type. Also, just being really thankful for Robert Kirkman and our showrunner Scott M. Gimple, who puts it all on the page. In addition to those things, I was very excited about how they dealt with gender roles. Instead of having me go out and kill, I’m protecting. Very often society pushes the same roles: the man does this, the woman does that. In turn, we get to play around with that. We see
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