Jeffrey Dean Morgan didn’t like how Negan’s story ended on The Walking Dead
By Dan Selcke
The Walking Dead came to an end last year after 11 seasons of zombie-hunting action. You’d figure with all that time, the show could have brung the stories of all the main characters to satisfying conclusions, but not everyone was happy, including some of the actors.
Namely, Jeffrey Dean Morgan had some problems with where the show left his character Negan. Late in season 11 we learned that Negan had married a woman named Annie (Medina Senghore); they were even expecting a child together.
The issue was that we’d barely heard anything about Annie before this; even their marriage took place off screen. Given what a big deal the show made of Negan’s last wife Lucille (played by Morgan’s real-life wife Hilarie), who died tragically and set Negan on the path fans were familiar with, this didn’t sit right with Morgan.
We’ll learn what happened to Negan’s new wife on The Walking Dead: Dead City
“Having him show up with a wife without telling the story of why and how was always, like, a problem — an issue I had,” Morgan said on the Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast. “But, you know, that’s what happens when you’re doing a show with 30 main characters. You’re not able to service each character as well as you may want to.”
"You know, I don’t know that he would’ve gotten married again, and they had Negan get married at the end of The Walking Dead. We never saw the story of how he met this person and why he would’ve married her, which always kind of bummed me out, because I think he was so in love with his wife, Lucille, and it had made such a production out of the whole Lucille of it all."
Negan is now back on TV in Dead City, which pairs him up with Maggie. Notably, Negan’s new wife and child are nowhere to be seen. As Morgan puts it, “some s— has happened.”
So perhaps Dead City can fill in some of the blanks that so disappointed Morgan back on the original series. “I think now with Dead City, we’ll get some answers,” he teased. New episodes of that show air Sundays on AMC.
Next. The Walking Dead: Dead City review, Episode 1, “Old Acquaintances”. dark
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