Jeffrey Dean Morgan has built an extraordinary career over the years, starring in some of the most loved series by the public. It would be difficult to find another actor with such a varied curriculum: was the father of Sam and Dean Winchester in Supernaturalthen took on the role of Denny Duquette in one of the most heartbreaking moments of Grey’s Anatomy and played the role of a freelance investigator in The Good Wife. With great skill he managed to perfectly interpret all these very different characters, managing to give each of them the charm that characterizes them. However, his fame is inextricably linked to the character of Negan, who in The Walking Dead he had a glorious story arc. The ending of The Walking Dead, arrived in Italy on Disney + on November 21st, did not conclude the story of Negan that will continue to be told in a spin-off that is currently in production.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan recently had the opportunity to reflect on how much the character of Negan has changed his life.
The article contains spoilers from the first episode of the seventh season of The Walking Dead.
Although he had already appeared in season 6, he was in the premiere of The Walking Dead 7 that Negan showed what he was truly capable of. The episode, which aired on October 23, 2016, went down in TV history, shocking the public and creating wounds that have not yet healed. A foul-mouthed Negan came out of the camper and with a sadistic game he chose which victim to kill with his trusty Lucille, beating Abraham to death with his baseball bat. When Daryl attacked him, he realized that in order to bring down Rick’s group it was necessary to inflict another punishment and surprisingly he killed young Glenn right in front of Maggie’s eyes.
It was a very strong sequence that marked the fandom of The Walking Dead and that, apparently, continue to persecute Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The actor said that even though it’s been six years since the episode aired, people still stop him on the street to scold him for daring to kill Glenn. Here’s what she had to say at the press tour panel hosted by the Television Critics Association:
“It changed my life. That scene literally changed my life in so many ways. And I still get pissed about it. I live in New York and so I walk those streets, and the people who are there they remind me every day that Glenn was their favorite character.”
The actor also had the opportunity to talk about the path that Negan has faced over the course of the different seasons of the TV series. And then he also anticipated what we can expect from Dead Citythe spin-off which will be presented on AMC in June (and that we should arrive on Disney +). In the new series Negan and Maggie will have to work together to track down the young Hershel, the son of Glenn and Maggie who has been kidnapped. Jeffrey Dean Morgan assured us that in the spin-off we will see a new side of Negan:
“The great thing about Negan, to me, is how much he’s changed since the day he stepped out of the RV. Scott, Eli and the other writers, what they’ve done is really fleshing out a character that lived beyond the comics. And that was a tricky thing to do with Negan.”
