The Strolling Lifeless‘s Jeffrey Dean Morgan reveals the one massive challenge he had with Negan’s ultimate story arc in season 11 and guarantees solutions in Lifeless Metropolis. Though Morgan did not be part of the forged of The Strolling Lifeless full-time till season 7, he nonetheless turned one of the crucial iconic and beloved characters of the sequence. Whereas he is initially a violent totalitarian dictator of a bunch of survivors, he undergoes a gradual transformation that paints his transgressions in a brand new mild. Nonetheless, there’s one facet of Negan’s storyline that did not sit proper with Morgan.

Whereas showing on Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Discuss Off Digital camera podcast (through EW), Morgan revealed that he was bothered by Negan’s marriage in The Strolling Lifeless season 11. Beforehand, the sequence delved into Negan’s previous together with his late spouse Lucille (Hilarie Burton). She clearly performed an enormous position in Negan’s motivations and actions, as he even named his beloved bat Lucille. Therefore, Morgan was disenchanted when the subsequent season abruptly revealed he had remarried with out correctly constructing as much as him taking this step. Take a look at his assertion beneath:

“You already know, I do not know that he would’ve gotten married once more, and so they had Negan get married on the finish of The Strolling Lifeless. We by no means noticed the story of how he met this individual and why he would’ve married her, which all the time type of bummed me out, as a result of I feel he was so in love together with his spouse, Lucille, and it had made such a manufacturing out of the entire Lucille of all of it. Having him present up with a spouse with out telling the story of why and the way was all the time, like, an issue — a difficulty I had. However, you recognize, that is what occurs once you’re doing a present with 30 important characters. You are not capable of service every character in addition to you might need to. And I feel now with Lifeless Metropolis, we’ll get some solutions.”

Negan’s Story Continues In The Strolling Lifeless Spin-Off Lifeless Metropolis

As Morgan touched on, The Strolling Lifeless season 11 wasn’t the top of Negan’s story. Lifeless Metropolis is without doubt one of the first Strolling Lifeless spin-offs that includes returning characters to premiere after the unique present’s conclusion. The sequence premiered on June 18 and sees Morgan reprise his position as Negan alongside Lauren Cohan’s Maggie. Lifeless Metropolis sees Negan and Maggie kind a shaky alliance on account of Maggie’s desperation to save lots of her kidnapped son Hershel (Logan Kim).

It’s anticipated that the sequence will delve additional into Negan’s backstory and the sudden change in course his story took in season 11. Maggie is a continuing reminder of all of the wrongs Negan has dedicated, contemplating he murdered her husband, Glenn. Nonetheless, his new spouse, Annie (Medina Senghore), doesn’t seem within the first episode, nor does his little one. In season 11, Negan’s spouse was revealed to expect a child. By the season finale and The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis, the kid ought to have been born, however they haven’t been talked about or proven but.

As an alternative, Negan is on the run after being accused of killing 5 folks and proven nurturing an orphaned lady named Ginny (Mahina Napoleon). In consequence, there was confusion about the place his household is within the sequence. Whereas they have not turned up but, Morgan’s trace of there being solutions raises hopes that Lifeless Metropolis will nonetheless contact on this unfinished story arc. If viewers proceed tuning into Lifeless Metropolis on AMC, they could be capable of discover a answer to the one lingering Negan drawback from The Strolling Lifeless.

Supply: Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Discuss Off Digital camera (through EW)