The latest The Walking Dead season 6 teaser featuring the cast and crew serves as a reminder there isn’t much hope of your favorite characters’ survival.
Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl on The Walking Dead, tells fans in the teaser not everyone makes it to the end and some characters take the deaths pretty hard. Death cannot be avoided in The Walking Dead and there are more threats waiting outside of Alexandria’s walls. More specifically, there’s a threat named Negan about to change the group dynamic for good.
The trailer contains Daryl, Abraham and Sasha’s brief encounter with The Saviors, but we likely won’t see Negan until the last episode of the season. Andrew Lincoln, who plays Rick, said during the teaser the show’s gotten to a part in The Walking Dead comic books he’s been excited to see play out on TV. Lincoln recently spoke to TV Insider about Negan and why he Rick’s even scared of what he’s capable of.
“The Governor was magnificent and David did a beautiful job playing him,” Lincoln told TV Insider . “But Negan is horrific. He is this incredible tyrant and this very charismatic, funny, brutal beyond words sociopath. I'm interested in the relationship between Negan and Carl and Carl and Rick. There's a very complicated, extraordinary psychology between those characters. I'm just thrilled that we are getting to a place where it feels very deep, dark, thrilling and dangerous.”
Negan’s introduction is bad news for many characters in the show. However, Glenn actor Steven Yeun pointed out in AMC’s new The Walking Dead teaser there would be no way Rick’s group would’ve been able to survive as long as they did had they not found each other. Even if you lose your favorite character this season, you know they’ve had a solid run.
“In a beautiful way, really the story of what we’re trying to tell is yes, it’s a continued story of survival amongst individuals, but these individuals wouldn’t be able to survive in any other circumstance that did not have the group of people that they do have,” Yeun said.
The Walking Dead season 6 returns on AMC at 9 p.m. on Feb. 14.
