"Walking Dead" actor Andrew Lincoln is obviously not one to shed a tear when he slays walkers on the zombie apocalypse-themed show, but the lead star of the hit series surely knows when and how to be moved by his character's words.
For loyal fans of the show, the recent episode titled "Them" may be something typical for the series, but for the British actor, he admitted that he knew it was very special the moment he read the script.
Lincoln spoke to Entertainment Weekly recently and he particularly noted that the line he delivered amid Daryl Dixon, Glenn Rhee, Carol Peletier and Michonne's presence while they were in a barn moved him to tears.
Below is a copy of his speech:
"When I was a kid, I asked my grandpa once if he ever killed any Germans in the war. He wouldn't answer. He said that was grown up stuff, so.... So I asked if the Germans ever tried to kill him, but he got real quiet. He said he was dead the minute he steeped into enemy territory. Every day he woke up he told himself, 'rest in peace-now get up and go to war.'"
"And then after a few years of pretending he was dead, he made it out alive. And that's the trick of it, I think. We do what we need to do, and then we get to live. But no matter what we find in DC I know we'll be okay, because this is how we survive. We tell ourselves that we are the walking dead."
Cinema Blend has learned that when asked why the speech of his character caused him to burst into tears, the 41-year-old actor said, "When I read it, it reminded me of something that happened in my life when I spoke to someone in a fight," the "Love Actually. It almost had the same speech, so it resonated on a really, really profoundly, deep, familial level. I remember when I read it, I just cried."
The "Love Actually" star then added, "When I read the script I couldn't...because I always to tend to read my words out loud and I just couldn't. I got something caught in my throat when I read this speech. It's just a very bold episode and I hope we got it right."
A new episode of "The Walking Dead" is set to air next Sunday at 9 p.m. EST on AMC.
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