Whereas Jeffrey now says “everybody may be very excited in regards to the respective spinoffs and what can come subsequent,” he wasn’t at all times so certain how Lifeless Metropolis—which can comply with Maggie and Negan as they journey “right into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan way back lower off from the mainland,” in line with the community—would even work within the first place.

“When the concept was first pitched, I assumed it was as loopy as you most likely did,” he mentioned. “How do you place these two characters collectively? There was a whole lot of speak about spinoffs and the way they might do it. They had been speaking to Lauren and I about doing our personal.”

Jeffrey continued, “Someday, [The Walking Dead Universe chief content officer] Scott [Gimple] mentioned, ‘Hey, we have got this concept and it is the 2 of you.’ I keep in mind I talked to Lauren the following day on set and we had been each eyebrows raised going, ‘How the f–k does that work?'”

How the f–k that works, Lauren argued, is by not operating away from the existential nature of Negan and Maggie’s relationship. 

“It is a good territory for us to get into as actors, however our viewers goes to wish to see it,” she mentioned. “It’s so a lot left on the desk. In the event you’re tethered to someone you will have each purpose to by no means wish to take care of and wish to hate and also you have to, for me it simply brings up the largest questions you’ll be able to have in life.”