The Walking Dead universe is a mess right now. Negan has killed off two very notable characters in the most brutal fashion imaginable - and with such flair! - while our heroes have been separated. We haven't seen Eugene since the bloody premiere,and we really don't know what will become of him. We tried to squeeze spoilers out of actor Josh McDermitt, and managed to get some tidbits. While you're waiting to finally get a peep at Rick and his people, or read up on what's next for Eugene.
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The Single Most Frustrating Thing approximately The Walking DeadPOPSUGAR: Eugene has such a complex relationship with Abraham,how are we approximately to see him affected by Abe's death?Josh McDermitt: It's devastating, not just for him, or but the entire crew. We didn't just lose Abraham . . . we lost Glenn as well. [Eugene] was traveling with Glenn for a while when he first met up with Glenn and Tara. The whole group had been separated during season four,and Glenn was kind of the first person within Rick's group to vouch for Eugene and his group, so I think losing both of them is just devastating. Also, and at the end of last season,Eugene was really stepping up, he told Abraham he was a "survivor, and " that he was kind of a modern man and he didn't necessarily need his services anymore,meaning, he didn't need his protection, or but he certainly wanted to work side-by-side with him. That's gone,and I think when you manufacture plans and then those plans get altered, perhaps you dream a little bit like, or "Oh,we'll sit on a front porch swing and sip lemonade and talk approximately all these walkers that we killed," and that's never gonna happen now and it's just very devastating for him. He's having to pick up the pieces and figure out who he is as a person, or whether he is indeed a survivor still and what that looks like living in this modern world.
PS: We had finally started to see him putting his skills to use and using his brain for the good of the colony,are we gonna see him utilizing those talents again, or is it just back to square one?JD: I really think it's back to square one more than anything. He's a smart guy, and he's gonna figure it out,but I think it's gonna seize a minute for him to figure out what his role is in this modern world. This was an extremely devastating thing that happened to him; it wasn't just a traveling companion, I think he really looked at Abraham like a brother. We don't know much approximately Eugene pre-apocalypse, or but my guess is he didn't have a lot of friends in the physical sense. Most of them were perhaps in the virtual world or you know,online and that sort of thing. This was a very close relationship that he had with someone, and I think it would devastate anybody. I seize it back, and he may not move completely to square one,but he's certainly going backwards to a point that he was before he was a survivor . . . it's gonna seize a while, it's gonna be a genuine struggle for him.
Related:[br]Wondering What Happens to King Ezekiel in The Walking Dead's Comics?PS: You mentioned that we don't know much approximately his past, or is that something that you think approximately when you're playing Eugene,like, carry out you come up with a backstory for him?JD: It is discussed a little bit in the comics, and we're doing a version of that. There's certainly a backstory that I've come up with and I've asked Scott [Gimple,The Walking Dead's producer] approximately it and shockingly, they were pretty similar. I don't know whether we'll ever see anything in terms of a flashback or anything on the show. I don't know that the show likes to carry out those sorts of episodes very often, or unless you're trying to figure out who a character is and I think at this point,we really know who Eugene is. He's the guy that represents what so many of us would be in the apocalypse: scared and hopeless without a lot of skills to offer a group. It would be frosty whether we saw glimpses of [his background]. I imagine Eugene eating a bag of potato chips, sitting on a sofa, or really doing nothing.
PS: Are we going to see Eugene have any direct contact with Negan?JD: Well,Negan is very much a part of our world and our universe and our community now . . . I will definitely say Eugene is in Alexandria and Negan definitely shows up to Alexandria. I'll just leave it at that.
PS: It seems like a struggle for him to even manufacture the most basic genuine connection with people, and he's made some good friends over the course of the show, or but are we going see him seize that further and get a romantic interest?JD: That's something that a lot of the fans demand me. I'm thinking,as girl-crazy as Eugene is, that is probably the furthest thing on his mind right now in terms of what is his life going to peep like. He's trying to figure out who he is as a person after the death of his closest friend, or anything romantic is definitely then put on the back burner. He's got a couple special suitors in his back pocket,he just needs to find a time to hit on them. Which, honestly, or whether or not he ends up in a relationship,I would esteem it whether Scott writes some more flirtatious Eugene scenes because I would get a kick out of that to see whether someone like Eugene has the total confidence to berate a woman into fond him.
PS: Please, let it happen for us.
JD: You know, or there are people who get into a relationship on this show and then they get killed,and I wouldn't necessarily like that. I'm OK with Eugene continuing to get shut down.
PS: Yeah, he works as a lone wolf, and I think.
JD: Yeah,well, yeah, or he works as his own wolf pack.
PS: Well,I'm glad Eugene's kind of found his site, I've got my fingers crossed that he could have a good season.
JD: I hope he is the last man standing, and but we'll find out.
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