The Walking Dead has lost some high profile cast members over the past couple a years — frontman Andrew Lincoln exited, mainstay Danai Gurira is on her way out — but not everyone who’s lost is gone. Lauren Cohan will return as Maggie at some point. The question is: when?
Showrunner Angela Kang spoke to Entertainment Weekly about Cohan’s return to the series, and the possibility of seeing Maggie before the current season 10 comes to an end.
"We may see her at some other point this season, but I don’t want to say too much about anything."
Okay, Kang, we see you. But tell us more!
If I was to guess, I think we’ll see Maggie very briefly at some point during the season 10 finale, leaving us hyped for season 11. How that happens is another question entirely, considering that Maggie has been off with Georgie. Maybe the group will need all the reinforcements they can get in the war against the Whisperers and they’ll need their original badass to make it happen. Whatever brings her back, I’m beyond excited to see Maggie on the show again, be it this season or next.
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Kang sounds as psyched as I am. “Maggie is a character that I’ve always loved writing for on the show,” she said. “She’s a character that I thought was just so much fun in the comic book.
"I personally love Lauren Cohen so much. She’s just such a warm, wonderful, funny presence around the set. We’ve been saying for a while that the goal was always to figure out when we can continue her story, and there were a lot of logistics that needs to be worked out. Maybe it felt like to fans nothing was happening and it was all lies. But behind the scenes there have been conversations all along, and so I could not personally be more excited that it all is finally worked out. It’s going to be some fun stuff."
Even though Maggie is off the show, she’s not gone from the series. I’m sure many of you have noticed that she’s still very much a part of the conversation between characters. And that was absolutely on purpose.
"The idea that Maggie’s kind of out there in the world up to things and that they’re thinking about her has been seeded in for a while. So she’s definitely on our characters’ minds as they’re dealing with all this stuff going on and realizing that some of the people that are really capable and wonderful that they love are just out there and inaccessible to them at the moment."
The Walking Dead is about to get way more exciting, folks!
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h/t Digital Spy