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in America, everybody thinks they’d make it. Everybody’s absolutely convinced it wouldn’t happen to them, it’d happen to somebody else. So you put yourself in a situation where actually you probably wouldn’t make it. I’ve had so many people ask me what I’d do in the zombie apocalypse? Where would I go? And I say, well, you’re supposed to traditionally go to the place where no-one else would ever go because that way there wouldn’t ever be any zombies. So, you gotta go to the dentist’s office! Nobody ever wants to go to the dentist’s office. You can live forever there! So there is a fascination I think with the whole idea of someone that you love – and as you get older and you create this bond with your children – the idea that that person becomes something
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else. The sort of Body Snatchers aspect of looking right at someone you love and they’re gone. How does your brain process the fact that it’s not someone you love. As a father, that would be the most terrifying thing in the world; to look at my children and have them not be who they are, even though in the exterior that’s what we’re seeing. I think about that a lot. When we did season two Frank sent me the outlines for the episodes up to the Sofia moment in the barn, and I read them in two hours. For the rest of the weekend I was getting my earthquake kit and all my shit together in case something horrible happened. I had to protect my family!
THE KIDS’ DEATHS IN THE SHOW HAVE DEFINITELY HAD SOME OF THE BIGGEST IMPACTS; YOU MENTION SOFIA, BUT THEN WE ALSO HAD SCENES LIKE CAROL’S “LOOK AT THE FLOWERS”. IN THE COMICS, THERE ARE SCENES, ESPECIALLY WITH KIDS, THAT ARE EVEN MORE HARROWING. HOW DO YOU CHOOSE WHICH SCENES GO IN THE SHOW, AND WHICH ARE JUST TOO DARK FOR TV? GREG: You mean like Hershel’s daughters? I think it’s really a matter of picking and choosing. In the comic book, Lori is shot at the prison carrying the baby. I remember reading the comic book before the show was even picked