-We have another show packed with cast members from both
"The Walking Dead" and "Walking Dead: World Beyond."
Tonight, Maggie's crew did their best Whisperer impressions to
sneak into Meridian.
Daryl finally confessed to Leah
that he's not really reaper material
Leah became the new Pope!
She killed Pope for putting her brother in harm's way.
And then back at Alexandria, the group had to endure
a massive storm of attacking walkers.
Over on "World Beyond", we found that Silas
is now on undead cleanup duty.
Iris, Felix, and Will almost got discovered by Elizabeth
and her soldiers at the perimeter.
And Hope's trying to uncover what's really going on
with the CRM now that she's on the inside.
So what will happen now that
Iris has declared war against the CRM?
Who is going to help rescue
Judith and Gracie from her basement?
And how will Maggie and her group survive those fiery
Reaper arrows?
On tonight's show, we have interviews with
the cast not one, but two in memoriams.
Plus exclusive speak peaks of next week's "World Beyond."
And the premiere of part two of "The Walking Dead's"
final season.
My guests are tonight Ritchie Coster, who plays Pope.
Aliyah Royale, who you know as Iris from "World Beyond."
Chief content officer of "The Walking Dead" universe,
Scott M. Gimple, and Father Gabriel himself,
Seth Gilliam is here.
I am Chris Hardwick, and this is "Talking Dead" live!
[Cheers and applause]
♪
[Cheers and applause]
-Welcome.
The conversation's just beginning.
Of course we want to hear from you.
Tweet us, hit us up on Instagram
@AMCTalkingDead or go to "Talking Dead"'s Facebook page.
You can also go to TWDU.com/DeadLive to vote
in our polls and make your voice heard.
Please say hello to my guest Ritchie Coster, Aliyah Royale,
Scott M. Gimple, Seth Gilliam, all here together.
Let's talk about some reactions from earth's Internet.
BoldRoastRev on Twitter said,
"Ritchie Coster plays a fantastic bad guy."
TacoSupreme on Twitter says,
"Ritchie Coster is such a great actor.
He was amazing on this season of 'The Walking Dead.'"
And TWalkingDWorld on Twitter says, "Huge round of applause
for Ritchie Coster for his portrayal of Pope."
Yes, let us give this man a round of applause here.
[Cheers and applause]
I didn't see it coming, man.
I didn't see it coming because I don't watch till the day of.
And you weren't a surprise guest on the show.
I was, like, "Oh, Ritchie's coming on to probably talk about
the future of Pope."
Holy crap, man.
First of all, amazing job with Pope.
And what can you say? Did you create a back story for him?
What were your thoughts on Pope?
-I made an extensive back story.
In 30 years of doing this, every single job,
I say to myself, "Okay I'm going to get myself a nice new
mole skin and I'm going to fill it up
with back story, a motivation, and emotional memory exercises."
After two pages, I get bored, so I've got this book case
back at home with, just, like, all these notebooks
with two pages written.
But on him, for Pope, I was absolutely fascinated.
I filled a notebook.
-You did fill a notebook?
-Filled a notebook, yeah.
-And anything you can tease from the notebook?
-Um, lots of drawings.
[Laughter]
I wrote some poetry.
-Very nice.
-♪ Because you know your name is Simon ♪
♪ And you like to do drawings No?
-What the hell is that?
[Laughter] -Ahhh...
-I just had a flashback to "SNL" from, like, 20 years ago.
Scott, there's been a legacy -- and also, I don't know if a lot
of people knew that you were British, as well.
-Yeah. -So, amazing, amazing accent
work on the show, too. -Thank you.
-Absolutely.
There's been an amazing legacy of villains on
"The Walking Dead."
Can you talk about Ritchie transforming into Pope, Scott?
-Well, for me, the cool thing is, one of the hard things is,
we, you know, we couldn't -- people like myself couldn't jump
between the sets, so with David Morrissey,
it was like you meet him, you know him,
then he becomes the Governor.
With Jeffrey Dean Morgan, we go to makeup, we go to hair,
he becomes Negan.
I was a fan in this iteration.
I saw Pope essentially on TV.
And he scared the hell out of me.
-Aliyah, did you feel like there were some parallels
between Iris and Leah?
-Oh, undoubtedly.
Just that moment when she takes out Pope felt very similar to
the moment when Iris takes out the CRM soldier.
I mean, there's just these defining moments
in everyone's lives.
And for them that's it when you're, like,
"I do not trust you, I don't know what you've been doing."
Leah definitely thinks Pope is doing all this for
the wrong reasons, and so does Iris when it comes to the CRM.
The only option is elimination.
[Laughter]
-But in that moment to make that quick decision --
-I feel like that's why it's such a defining moment,
when you can be faced with hard circumstances
and make a split decision like that.
It's a power play.
-[Laughs] It is a power play.
And especially in Leah's case because now she seems to be
in charge of things.
-She's running it now. -She's running it now.
This is from Sadie G. on Facebook.
"Seth, what was on Gabriel's mind when he was hiding
in the brush from the Reaper priest?"
-I think he was kind of taken aback by the fervor with which
the Reaper priest was out there praying.
I think for Father Gabriel, he's kind of lost that
same kind of, you know, fever-pitch pray that
the Reaper priest seems to be up to.
-I mean, you know, when you think about the arc that
Father Gabriel has had, since we first saw him,
since he was hiding in that church,
he's a very different character now.
How would you describe his mind-set in season 11?
-Um, I think his mind-set is pretty much that he's got to
rely upon himself.
I don't think he's hearing the voice of God anymore,
and I think he's come to realize that he's got to rely upon
himself and his instincts to get him through
from moment to moment.
-Ritchie, I heard you had actually auditioned for another
"Walking Dead" role in.
In hindsight, are you glad -- -Three.
-You auditioned for three?
-Yeah, I auditioned for Bob, I auditioned for Abraham,
and I auditioned for Negan.
-Oh, my God.
I had such a hard time forgiving them for not giving me --
-[Laughs] It was very generous for you to come back around
for Pope.
[Laughter]
-I'm magnanimous that way.
-[Laughs] Well, coming up, we have interviews with the cast.
Plus exclusive sneak peek of next week's episode of
"World Beyond" and the premiere of part 2 of
"The Walking Dead"'s final season.
But first, before you frame your ex-boyfriend for your boss's
murder, let's slow things down and say a final farewell
to all those we've lost tonight.
♪
[Thunder rumbles]
♪
-You don't question the Lord, you don't question me!
[Groans]
♪
[Groans]
♪
[Thunder crashes]
♪
[Thunder crashes]
♪
-She just wants to help kill the walkers that are coming
inside of Alexandria, but Carol wants her to stay in the house
and make sure the kids are okay.
Judith definitely has mixed emotions when it comes to that.
She definitely knows, when it comes to fighting,
that the adults don't want her to fight because they don't want
to lose her.
She also understands that she's capable of fighting,
and she wants to help, she wants to do whatever she can
to help even if that means sacrificing her own life.
She's very protective of her family so she'll do everything
that it takes to keep her people safe.
When Virgil tells Judith that she reminds him of Michonne,
it makes her happy inside to know that people see her mom
inside of her, and she carries a piece with her everywhere
she goes, and that probably makes her feel excited
and happy, but also a little sad at the same time because
it reminds her of her mom.
[Cheers and applause]
-Welcome back to "Talking Dead."
That was Cailey Fleming on the touching moment where
Virgil tells Judith that she reminds him of her mom.
We're back with Ritchie Coster and Aliyah Royale
and Scott M. Gimple and Seth Gilliam.
Scott, have you enjoyed getting to see Judith carry on
the legacy of Michonne and Carl and Rick?
-Yeah.
The thing that I think you see in Cailey and you see in Judith
is leadership.
Like, she has the same command as both Rick and Michonne.
And been one of the cool things to see.
-Aliyah, what was your reaction to seeing Judith
and Gracie trapped in the basement?
-I was stressed.
I was stressed out this entire episode.
But that particular moment, it was obvious that Judith
definitely wanted a more active role this episode.
But I think she realized how important and incredible it is
to be the person who can keep everyone else calm and collected
in situations like that.
-Yeah. -But I'm worried.
However, I have the utmost faith in Judith.
And I feel like as soon as they got trapped down there,
she was already formulating a plan.
-Yeah, she was.
Let's talk about Rosita.
Some reactions to Rosita this episode.
MonkeyWhovian on Twitter says, "Motherhood has made Rosita into
an even bigger badass."
Melark on Twitter says, "Rosita going out
in the storm and single-handedly putting down those walkers
surrounding the house was so powerful."
And BesusWorldX on Twitter says,
"Rosita Espinosa appreciation tweet
because she just slayed."
Seth, what do you think Father Gabriel would
have thought of Rosita's walker massacre?
-"Wow, that's hot."
[Laughter]
-Turned into laughing.
-Ritchie, which of the Alexandrians do you think maybe
could have made good Reapers?
-Can we have Judith?
-You can have -- yes, yes. -Just Judith.
-I'm actually making a pitch here.
I don't know if you remember, there was Japanese manga called
"Lone Wolf and Cub", about the Samurai that wanders
around with a little child massacring people.
And I'd like to pitch a show where Pope isn't dead.
-Got it. -And it's just Pope and Judith
pushing a pram full of weapons just wandering the wasteland
having adventures.
-Well, ladies and gentlemen, chief content officer
of "The Walking Dead" universe, Scott M. Gimple, is here.
He's the man that could that happen.
He's taking notes right over his awesome Falkor pin
that I see you wearing there, Scott.
-Well, we all could use a luck dragon.
-Yes, fantastic.
-Aliyah, Iris kills a lot more empties this season,
as they call them on "World Beyond."
Do you do extra stunt stuff as a result?
Or how has it been working?
-I did, very much so.
Season one, Iris and the gang,
they're just leaving the campus colony's walls.
They're not going to be these trained walkers/empty assassins.
However, there's a lot of growth in season one.
And so I made sure when we came back for season two,
I worked with a stunt coordinator.
And I was like, "I don't care if it's something
as simple as a knife kill, if I'm on camera doing it,
it's gonna look good."
So we like formulated, like, four to five kills
per whatever weapon I posses at the time,
and as soon as the script called for it,
we put it in and it worked.
-Now, I'm curious, as an actor, do you come off a show like this
and go, "I want to do more of that?"
Or are you like, "I think I want to just do comedy."
Like, do you want less stunt work,
more stunt work, same amount?
How do you feel?
-Without question, more. -Oh, fantastic.
-Honestly, my dream scenario would be like Nikita type.
-Amazing. -Like low-down spy,
super dope, doing like flips and stunts and everything
the entire episode, working with, like,
massive machine guns and things.
Definitely taking everything I learned from this process.
-He's taking notes.
-Scott is also taking notes again.
-No, like, Iris definitely the way that she has developed
this season, I am going to take that with me everywhere.
-You had a kill today where you had the big long pole
and you did one, and then you did this spin.
[Laughter]
-Touched me, it really did.
-I love that our show is bridging the worlds of
"The Walking Dead" universe.
[Laughter]
Seth, what was it like shooting the scenes where
Gabriel and Maggie climb out of the trash pile?
-Well, you know, the attention to detail on "The Walking Dead"
is really just fantastic.
So, all of those really gross scenes
are just really gross, man.
[Laughter] It's just kind of foul
and just kind of nasty
and gross, and you feel icky
and you want to shower from the inside out.
-Yep. -And that was kind of
my experience of it.
-It's the realism.
If the script says you're crawling out of a trash pile,
you're crawling out of a trash pile.
-You're crawling out of a trash pile.
"We need more trash, more garbage.
I can see some slugs. Can we get some more?"
It's nasty.
-Oh, Ritchie Coster, you are apparently
good friends with Lenny James, who is just, like,
the sweetest, coolest, most wonderful guy in the universe.
How long have you guys known each other?
-Oh, 57 years.
-57? -Yeah.
-How'd you guys meet?
-We went to college together.
We met --
I was 18, he was 19.
I was terrified of him.
He didn't think much of me at all.
He told me.
He said, "Ritchie, you're just a pretty boy wanker."
[Laughter]
My reaction was, "Oh, you think I'm pretty?
That's great."
But he developed a soft spot for me,
and we live together for a while,
and we've been friends ever since.
Lenny is smart
and he's decent and he's brave,
and he's very important to me.
And if I have a problem, if it's important,
it'll end up in Lenny's lap.
He's very good friend to me.
-That's really wonderful.
Yeah, please tell him we said hello.
I haven't seen him in ages.
-Yeah. -We'll see each other on Zoom,
but it's just like -- even being in person,
it just feels so nice to just, like,
"Oh, there's an audience here and you're here."
I know you're both here via cameras,
but it's close. You know what, pretty soon.
Maybe -- yeah, trapped in a box.
Coming up we have more interviews from the set,
plus exclusive sneak peeks of next week's episode of
"World Beyond," and the premiere of part two
of "The Walking Dead's" final season,
which you saw is gonna be in February.
But first, before you add a birthday candle to your eggs,
let's slow things down and say a final farewell
to all those we've lost in "World Beyond" tonight.
♪
[Cheers and applause]
-Hello, and welcome back to "Talking Dead."
We're back with Ritchie, Aliyah, Scott, and Seth.
Let's talk about the moment where Pope dies on the show.
Lisa Holmes on Twitter says, "WTF, I didn't see that coming,
Leah! Wow!"
Teen Wolf Human says, "OMGS, Leah,
she just really stabbed Pope.
I've never cheered so loud in my life.
Holy moly!" I'm so sorry.
You probably don't need to hear that right now.
And then DixonsXGreen on Twitter says,
"Oh, wow, Leah stabbing Pope in the neck was so sexy, WTF?"
Ritchie, did you see that coming?
Do you think Pope --
Pope obviously didn't see that coming.
What was your reaction to that?
-I knew from the beginning when I first got the job,
and I think every moment that I was down in Atlanta,
I was trying to get them to change their mind.
[Laughter]
Even up to the point where we're filming
stabbing in the back of the head.
I'm like, "There's going to be a phone call any second."
"Don't do it!"
-She missed the brain.
Yeah.
-Even now, am I in denial?
-Maybe a little bit.
It could've been a dream sequence.
You know, it's television, you never know.
-But he's not really dead.
-He's not really -- -A little piece of him
lives in our hearts. -He lives in our hearts.
-There's a little Pope.
-A little Pope. -There's a tiny Pope.
Well, you mentioned the scene where she stabs him
in the back of the head. What was that like to film?
-Sticky. -Very stick--
Because you're face down in a pool of blood.
-Pope's face down in a pool of blood, and the wonderful
props department and special effects department,
they stuck a tube up me bum
and pumped out all the blood, and it just kept coming,
and that stuff, it dries and it's --
you're pulling it out of orifices
for about three months afterwards.
[Laughter]
-"Oh, I thought that was all gone.
There it is.
There's a surprise."
-And every time is a joy.
[Laughter]
-Surprise blood.
At first you're like, "Well, I'm dying.
Oh, no, it's the prop blood.
It's the prop blood."
Well, now it's time to see what everyone thought at home
when we asked you at TWDU.com/DeadLive,
Were you surprised that Leah turned on Daryl?
Yes, she was the one who killed Pope, of course,
or, no, Daryl lied to her and then killed her men.
While the votes are calculating, did you have a reaction to that?
-I would have done the same thing.
-Yeah. -And I hate to say it
because I adore you,
but I would have done the same thing.
It's either me or you in that situation.
I'm not going to tell my people I did it.
-Well, and also she -- I mean, she makes a very valid point
when she's, like, you know, "You're here to protect
your people, I'm here to protect --
you have your family, I have my family.
What are you" -- you know? -I also live in this place of
wanting everyone to be in love all the time.
So it was also very hard for me to watch.
-But that shot of her at the end looking over the wall,
she gets so steely.
-Yeah. -I saw that shot and I'm like,
"Oh, God, this is going to be brilliant."
-Yeah, it's amazing.
Well, 70 -- What is it, 70% said no.
70% said no.
Scott, why was it important to show this new side of Daryl
by introducing this dynamic with Leah?
-Well, so much the story of Daryl in "The Walking Dead,"
I feel, is growing up.
There was a scene season three
between him and Carl that I wrote,
and I realized that they were peers.
You know, Daryl wasn't talking to him like a grown-up to a kid.
They were peers.
And Daryl's journey in "The Walking Dead"
is that of growing up. -Mm-hmm.
-So these experiences,
these things that are changing him,
he's growing up.
-Seth, can you talk about the secret compartment
that Gabe finds the gun inside the Meridian?
-Inside the closet there, yeah.
That was, I think -- that was Maggie's kind of --
you know, if things go to hell, this is the backup plan,
you know, that massive weapon,
which was a beautiful weapon to fire.
-Well, Gabriel saves Maggie using the rifle that he finds.
Was he excited to kind of have that hero moment?
-I was excited.
I was excited that Gabriel got to do
a little long-distance shooting.
Yeah, a little firing going on.
You know, it always bothered me that during the war with Negan
that Gabriel had this AR-15 or whatever it was,
or maybe it was an M16 and perhaps that's why he missed.
But, anyhow, he had Negan five feet within his sights
and fired off a complete, you know, cartridge full of bullets
and missed him completely.
So now I think it's just come full circle.
-Oh, everybody was missing him. -Yeah, everybody was sort of
missing him at that point, but it's come full circle
that Gabriel can now hit, you know, like,
a baseball at 500 yards, you know?
-Yeah, he's really grown. He's really grown.
-Yeah. -This is for Aliyah
from on BoyceBrian24 on Instagram.
"Does Iris have any regrets about killing the CRM soldier
in the woods," do you think?
-No.
[Laughter]
-No. Again, it's that defining moment for her.
We have to remember, this is a girl who lost her mom.
-Right. -Season one of episode one,
she lost her therapist.
-Right. -And then after that,
her father and her sister have been taken from her.
So she's kind of in this moment of, "What do I want?
What am I willing to risk?"
And without these people around that she felt responsible for,
that she had to take care of and make sure that
they were okay on that journey from the Campus Colony,
she's able to really make her own decisions
and do things that she probably wouldn't normally do.
-Yeah, and we have to take a quick break,
but when we come back, I would love to sort of
talk about the idea of, you know, where Hope and Iris
started out in the very beginning,
now they've kind of, like, sort of crossed character paths
in an interesting way that was not --
that I don't think is what we would have expected.
So we'll talk about that after the break,
but before we go, you can keep the conversation going
by following FearHQ on Twitch.
They're live four days a week discussing all things horror
and "The Walking Dead," so please check it out.
Coming up, we have more interviews with the cast,
plus not one but two exclusive sneak peeks.
We'll be right back on "Talking Dead" live.
[Applause]
♪
-In the next part of the season, I think we can look forward to
whether or not Eugene gave up the ship.
Did he tell Hornsby where his communities are?
Remember, there's multiple communities
that are at stake here
and relying on Eugene to get some help.
And if he's giving up the location
of where these communities are, it might put into jeopardy
the help that they could receive in order to rebuild themselves
and to move forward.
[Cheers and applause]
-Welcome back to "Talking Dead." That was Josh McDermott
and what we can expect in part two
of "The Walking Dead's" final season.
This is for Scott M. Gimple from Aaron E. Will on Twitter.
"Does the CRM know about the Commonwealth?"
-We will see on this season of "The Walking Dead"
the answer to that question.
But I don't want to spoil it.
You know me. But we'll find out.
And I might've just spoiled it just by answering it that way.
-No, but listen, that's the most information I think
I've ever gotten out of you on years of doing this program.
So I appreciate it. I'll take that as an answer.
We're gonna find out. We're gonna find out
this season. That's fantastic.
I would hope so, 'cause we can't find out about it next season,
so it better be this season. -I should've said that.
That would have been cool. -That would have been cool.
This is from Christina18 on Instagram.
"Ritchie, why did Pope want to kill Maggie so badly?"
-It's all about his fantasy and his delusions of grandeur
and his arrogance.
I think he's just bored just killing walkers
and devastating communities.
I think that doesn't appeal to his sense of grandeur,
and I think what he wants is one of those classical
adversary pairings, like Joker and Batman.
-Right. -Patton and Rommel.
Borg and McEnroe.
I think he wants that kind of classic --
it's Maggie against Pope.
And because he keeps saying, "It's my enemy, it's my enemy."
It's not the enemy of the Reapers 'cause the Reapers
are kind of unimportant at this point.
-Right. -They keep letting him down.
So he just wants to have that chess match with someone.
-Someone who can challenge him. -Someone who can challenge him.
-Right. Aliyah, how does Iris' mindset
toward the CRM compare to Maggie's toward the Reapers?
Do you think there's any parallel?
-Absolutely. I think both of them look at it
as there's a job that needs to get done.
There's these very complex feelings both of them have.
I'm sure Maggie is like, "This is a lot to take on,
but my people need food."
It's, like, super simple.
Whereas Iris is like, "This is a lot to take on,
but I want my family back."
And the way that you think you're working for
the common good, I don't think you are.
So there's these jobs that they have at hand.
Maggie handles hers, and Iris says,
"I have my father and my sister behind me,
I have the serum in front of me,
but my job right now, take out the soldier.
-Okay, so let's talk about that, 'cause I kind of teased it
a little bit before the break, which is, you know,
at the beginning of the series, Iris is very much
the rule follower and Hope is very much the rule breaker.
And so you'd think, like, oh, when things go sideways,
Hope is going to be the one that sort of
joins the rebellion, so to speak,
and Iris is going to be the one that, you know,
like, works for the corporation, so to speak.
-Absolutely. -But now we've seen, like,
it's kind of going in the opposite way.
-Yeah, the sisters do very well with taking on
each other's personalities and character traits.
They're essentially twins.
But, yeah, there's this moment where both of them come to
this crossroads, and whereas Hope is like,
"I just want to be somewhere where I know that I'm there
for a reason and a purpose," and Iris is like,
"You know, I don't really care about what anyone else
wants me to do, I'm going to figure this out
on my own." -Right.
-I don't know, I hope that they figure it out together, though.
-Seth, let's talk a little bit
about why it was so important
for Father Gabriel to go on this mission with Maggie
in the first place.
-I think, uh --
I think, at this point, Father Gabriel feels like
if anything is going to get done,
he's got to be a part of doing it.
-Right. -That he's got to take things
into his own hands.
You know, if you want to see a thing done right,
you got to do it yourself. -Right.
-And I think he's also having some kind of coldness,
and there's a little distance between he and Rosita,
and it might just be time to get out of the house
for a little while, as well.
[Laughter] -So he's just --
He's just going to the store basically.
"I'm just gonna go to the store."
-Yes. -"Pick up some cigarettes."
Before we go to break, I want to show you all this.
I have some very special props here.
This right here,
we have this first, this is the Maggie Funko Pop right here.
There it is, Maggie Rhee Funko Special Exclusive Edition
of -- That's this.
And then we also have the special exclusive edition
of "The Art of the Walking Dead" book, which is right here.
Scott, if I'm not mistaken,
you were involved in the bringing
of this book to the fans.
Am I correct?
-You are correct. That's a little piece of history
in your hand because that shows how we made the show.
The design, from Walkers to sets, costumes.
There is some fan art in there,
but most of it is a history of all three shows
and how they came to be,
how the vision became a reality.
-Fantastic. You can pick up one for yourself
as well as the Maggie Funko Pop at TWDUShop.com.
And everyone in the studio audience is getting both.
You get two things today! [Cheers and applause]
Two things. Two!
Coming up we have two exclusive sneak peeks
that I've been promising.
We'll be right back.
[Cheers and applause]
♪
-Hi. My name is Kylie.
I'm from Illinois, and I love "The Walking Dead" universe.
I've been fighting cancer for the past seven years,
and "The Walking Dead" has been
a major, major comfort show for me.
I think something that resonates best with me,
it kind of goes for all of the characters,
is that they don't let their past define them,
and instead they become stronger because of it.
So I got introduced to the show actually by my dad,
and it's just -- it's something that I always look forward to
during the week when I'm having, like, bad days,
whether I have to get, like, treatment
or if I just don't feel too good,
I always look forward to Sundays
because that's "The Walking Dead" day.
And actually, we got my mom to start watching it.
So when we were in the hospital,
she binged the entire series.
And I always live-tweet with any of the other actors
who might be live-tweeting.
Seeing, like, behind-the-scenes pictures from them
or, like, stuff that they say, like, about the episode
when they were shooting it,
it's just -- it's so much fun.
And thank you so much to everybody
who makes this amazing show possible.
[Cheers and applause]
-Welcome back to "Talking Dead."
That was this week's featured fan, Kylie Conklin.
Thank you, Kylie, for being a part
of "The Walking Dead" family.
We so appreciate you.
We send you all of our well wishes
and as many positive healing vibes to you
as we possibly can.
Please give Kylie a huge round of applause.
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And now Kylie's gonna ask a question via video,
so let's roll it.
-My question is for Seth.
A couple seasons ago, Negan gave Father Gabriel
the nickname "Father Not the Father."
What nickname do you think that Father Gabriel would give Negan?
[Laughter]
-Hmm. -Careful.
-That is, uh...
Yeah, be careful.
Is Negan someone you can give a nickname to?
I think "The Big Stickless," I think, would work.
[Laughter]
-Because he lost the -- that's right.
That's genius. That's well done.
Very well done. -Thank you.
-Scott, the fans are very excited
about Jadis coming back to "The Walking Dead" universe.
Can you tease anything about that?
-Yeah.
I'll tell you things and not tell you things
at the same time.
Jadis is who she always was and yet is completely new.
Um...she has a new persona.
She has a new priority.
She has new motivation.
She has a new allegiance.
And she's just is dangerous,
but she's just got this whole new direction
while still being the person that we always knew.
-By the way, just for people watching the background,
yeah, Scott does have a laser show going on
in the back of his place there.
Can I come over later for Laser Pink Floyd?
Are we gonna do, like, a Laserium show?
-Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
-You always have some cool laser stuff
in your office, like, always.
Every time we do something, you've got always got
something cool going on in the background there.
-We got roller skates going on, you know, disco ball.
-[Laughs]
-One thing I will say also about Jadis,
not to bring it back to that,
but we do get a little bit
on the origins of the scavengers.
-Oh, that's fantastic. -Yeah.
-That is a good piece of information.
So we've got a lot of pieces of information,
we got a lot of information, and I'm coming over
after this for Laser Pink Floyd
and we're gonna couple-skate to Journey's "Open Arms."
[Laughter]
Aliyah -- -Wait, wait, I already do.
-[Laughs] Hey, right there!
Oh, that's amazing.
I'm so -- Now I need a Scott Gimple Funko Pop.
Aliyah, could Iris trust anyone in the CRM?
What about --
[Laughs] So not even --
Not even -- Not even -- -Go ahead, who?
-Not even her dad's girlfriend...
-Who? -...who we...
-My dad's what? -Yeah, okay, okay, okay.
He has a lady friend.
There's a lady friend who apparently...
-Absolutely not.
Anyone in there is guilty by association...
-Alright. -...especially someone
trying to be my stepmother.
-Very fair -- Very fair assessment.
Seal Preston on Instagram says, "Richie, did Pope have any idea
that Daryl was lying all along?"
That was our most-asked question, actually.
-I don't think so.
I think he's -- he's suspicious of Daryl,
but no more than the rest of them.
-Right. -Just because I think,
if -- if his suspicions were any greater than that,
he'd just kill Daryl. -Right.
You know, they came back from that scouting expedition
with -- and Frost had supposedly given something up.
But if Frost had given something up,
you know, there'd be a fire lit for -- for Daryl.
-Right, right.
So he just didn't see it coming.
He just -- He just missed it.
-Yeah.
-Scott -- [Laughter]
Scott -- I'm so sorry, this is very hard to talk about,
I know. Thank you for your --
Thank you for opening up. -You know, by the way --
by the way, Chris, I do have an update.
You know, Richie did imply that he and Lennie
are 75 years old. -[Laughs] He did.
He said they met 57 years ago.
-Yeah, and Lennie says, "Seems longer."
[Laughter]
-Real-time reaction from Lennie James.
-Well, we're gonna -- before we go to break,
I want to remind you to go to "Talking Dead's"
social accounts right now, @AMCTalkingDead,
for a sneak peek of season 7 of "Fear the Walking Dead"
as well as exclusive interviews from the cast and the producers
in the whole "Walking Dead" universe.
Also remind you to go to amcplus.com
to watch episodes of "Walking Dead,"
"Fear," "World Beyond" a full week early.
Coming up, we have a sneak peek of the premiere
of part 2 of "The Walking Dead's" final season,
but first, here's an exclusive look
at next week's episode of "World Beyond."
Check it out. -Yes.
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-Hey, no sign of guns.
Weapons look homemade.
Metal sheets are a question mark,
but I only see two sets of tracks.
Means they're alone.
And that Dakota fire pit
means they camped here overnight.
Which means they're pretty far from home.
-Well, how do you know they havea home?
-Those turnips, they're all the same size and shape.
Harvested.
-Mm.
-Conning these two out of all their food should be cake.
-What? Wait, wait, whoa, whoa.
What? What? Why? We don't need to do that.
-[Chuckles] They have what we need.
-But we don't need alltheir food.
-We're looking for people that could be anywhere.
We need all we can get.
-We should just ask them what they can spare, alright?
They seem like good people.
-So did Huck.
Turned out she was only good at shooting people.
♪
-Welcome back to "Talking Dead." Now it's time
for our exclusive sneak peek of the premiere
of part 2 of "Walking Dead's" final season,
which of course is February.
Here it is.
♪
-[Grunts]
[Groaning]
♪
-That's far enough.
♪
Can't let you harm one of my flock.
♪
-Worry about yourself first.
-God will stay your hand
just like He did at the graves yesterday.
♪
-You knew I was there?
-The Lord did. He told me I had nothing to fear.
-You hear him?
-I do.
-And He tells you to defend these people?
-His hand guides my every step.
-These are monsters.
Who slaughter entire towns without provocation,
massacre children.
And you pray for them?
[Cheers and applause] -Alright.
Seth, in the last minute and a half we have,
what can you tell us about the scene we just saw?
-Um...
I-I can't tell you anything without ruining it.
-[Laughs] That's a fair answer.
-Well done. Well done.
-I like -- I like that you thought about it for a sec.
"Well...nothing. I can't... That's it.
You know how this show works."
Well, it looks great, and, Scott,
can you please tease the premiere of part 2
of "The Walking Dead's" final season
and season 7 of "Fear"?
We have about 40 seconds.
-Uh..."Walking Dead" returns with unbelievable intensity
and action and heartbreak and revelation.
And "Fear the Walking Dead,"
that episode, Colman Domingo just destroys the universe.
He is unbelievable in that episode.
-I love Colman so much. -So it's a hell of a season.
Incredible season. -Oh.
And, Aliyah, three words to describe
the rest of the season of "World Beyond"?
-Oh, my. Intense, fiery, loving.
-Oh, n-- Oh, I didn't see that last one coming.
That's really nice.
And I also want to thank Richie Coster.
You've been delightful. Thank you so much for coming on.
I remember when Richie --
I'm sorry, when Lennie had said la--
"Oh, a friend of mine's coming on,
a dear friend of mine. You'll love him. He's great."
He was talking about you, and it was just such a pleasure
to have you on the show. -Thank you very much.
-And even though your time as Pope was brief, my friend,
you will always be a part of "The Walking Dead" universe.
So thank you so much for being here.
-It was a pleasure. It truly was. Thank you.
-Thank you. Thank you for watching "Talking Dead."
My guests have been Richie Coster, Aliyah Royale,
Scott M. Gimple, Seth Gilliam.
Don't forget to go to amcplus.com
to watch the next episode of "World Beyond" right now.
And while you're there, you can see the season 7 premiere
of "Fear the Walking Dead," also.
Next week, we'll be on after "Fear" and "World Beyond."
And then we're gonna break down everything from both shows.
We'll be joined by "Walking Dead" fan Aisha Tyler,
who directs next week's episode of "World Beyond,"
Nicolas Cantu, who plays Elton,
and a surprise guest you won't want to miss.
Stay safe. Take care of each other.
I'm Chris Hardwick. It's so wonderful to see you again.
We've been live, and now we're about to not be, so good night.
See you next week. Bye-bye.
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