The Walking Dead’s Michael Cudlitz talks season 7 backlash: ‘We may have crossed the line'
THE WALKING DEAD season seven’s first casualty Michael Cudlitz has admitted that the zombie epic “may have crossed the line” with its brutal premiere - but claimed that is the duty of modern television.
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Critics blasted the gruesome instalment, which saw Michael’s beloved hero Abraham Ford bludgeoned to death at the hands of Negan and his barbed-wire-laced baseball bat, affectionately named Lucille.
As the dust settles following Abraham and Glenn Yeun’s shock deaths, speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Michael defended the show against TV watchdogs who deemed the scenes “too graphic”.
“It’s a sliding scale,” the 51-year-old explained. “Critics say a lot about our show, and sometimes I wonder why like they’re making stuff up. A lot of it’s contradictory to how the fans feel - not even loosely but in a huge way.
“The fans didn’t flip out in the most part because it was ‘too graphic’, fans flipped out because because we brutally removed two people that they loved.
“Abraham did his time, he’s moved on and now we’re going to meet all of the other characters - King Ezekiel and his crew,” he beamed. “Next week we learn something more about the Saviours.
“We’re going to continue to lose characters and we’re going to gain characters and we’ll fall in love with them even if that means loving to hate them.”
The Walking Dead season seven continues Monday nights at 9pm on FOX UK.