‘I’m Getting Dangerously Close’: Jeffrey Dean Morgan Teases End of His Walking Dead Journey

The Walking Dead: Dead City is back with Season 2 on Sunday, May 4, and fans are ready to see what happens next with Negan and Maggie. But Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays Negan, says his time in the zombie world might be ending soon.

In a recent interview with Variety, Morgan said he’s thinking about walking away from the character he’s played for years. He shared: “This has been part of my life for so long now that I don’t ever picture it ending unless I finally say I’m too old to do this anymore, which I am getting dangerously close to.”

Morgan joined The Walking Dead in Season 6 and made a big impact. Fans were shocked and upset when his character killed Glenn (played by Steven Yeun) with his barbed-wire baseball bat, Lucille.

That moment made Negan one of the most hated characters in the show’s history, and also set up years of tension between him and Maggie, Glenn’s wife.

Now, Dead City brings Negan and Maggie together again. This time, they’re heading to New York City on a mission to save Maggie’s son, Hershel. Even Morgan wasn’t sure at first if fans would like this story: “It’s interesting, especially doing this spinoff with two characters who want to kill each other 90% of the time, because I had never heard of this being a workable concept before. Yet, here we are, with season two coming out and talking about doing more. We’ll see.”

One fun surprise in Season 2 is the return of Lucille, Negan’s famous bat. Although it was destroyed in the original show, it somehow returns in the new episodes. Morgan talked about how excited he was to have the prop back:

“I knew she’d be back a year before we started shooting, and I was excited. I’m not a prop actor. I know some actors [whose props] inform their whole character, and I had never had a prop like that until I met Lucille. I completely understand it now. To have her back in my hands was more important to me, Jeff, than it was even to Negan. Negan is a little bit thrown off having Lucille back in his life. Jeff was fucking thrilled. I loved it. I don’t let the prop guys take her from me. She goes to my trailer with me, she goes to craft services with me. I keep her with me all day long and don’t let people play with her.”

Whether or not this season will be Negan’s last is still unknown. But for now, fans can enjoy seeing him and Maggie return to action, and watch what happens next in The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2.

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