Hey The Walking Dead Comics and TV series fans. In an interview by Examiner.com, Jon Bernthal, also known as Shane in the series, answers the question on why is he still alive wherein fact, based on the comics, he should be dead already.
Examiner: Hey, you deserved it. The show is really good. And it’s beyond popular: It’s pulling in ratings that are overwhelming, breaking records, it’s ridiculous. We’ve got a bajillion articles about the show on Examiner.com, too, and I set it up to where people could submit their own questions for this interview. Some of ’em are mine, but some of ’em are also reader-submitted. The most common question you were asked was, “Why aren’t you dead yet?”
Bernthal: (Laughs) Yeah, man, I don’t know. I can imagine that would be a common question. I don’t know what I can say about that. I hadn’t read the comic before I read Frank (Darabont)’s pilot script, and — for an actor like me, who’s at the beginning of his career and going through pilot season — when I read the script, it blew me away. It was better than anything else out there. And I really felt that, for this part and for this project, I should say “No” and not commit to anything else before I got my day in court on The Walking Dead.
I didn’t know anything about the comic or Robert Kirkman … I knew about Frank, of course, but that was it. But it was also Gale Anne Hurd, and it was Frank, and it was AMC, and it was … y’know, it was a f–kin’ rad-ass script! They did tell me that Shane was a character that does die (in the comics), but it didn’t faze me. I just really wanted to be a part of this thing. There was no specificity whatsoever about how long I would last in this thing.
I think that (Shane’s death) is essential for the story, and it’s essential for Carl, and it’s essential for Lori, but I just wanna get a chance to earn it, to put his mark down on the group. And I think they’re doing that. He’s going to have had an effect on the group when he … y’know, when he does go. But I have no idea when, or how, if he is … I know as much as you guys do.
See the actual screenshot of Shane’s death on comics HERE.
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