As is normally the case in the zombie apocalypse, when last we saw our heroes in AMC's "The Walking Dead," things were not going so well. Alexandria was overrun by walkers with more zombies huddling outside, the Saviors were starting to pick fights and many innocent people were killed in the mayhem. The silver lining: Maggie knows Glenn is alive. Unfortunately, there's a lot of danger still separating them.
"We have put the couple through the ringer," Laurie Cohan, who plays Maggie, told Entertainment Weekly. "In terms of separating, then promising they'll never leave each other's sights again, and now they're in the ultimate separation over this sea of walkers."
Though Maggie and Glenn are closer to one another than they have been since the start of season six, a happy reunion is far from a guarantee. There's still too many active threats for these two to be allowed a couples get away.
"The reunion is going to be somewhat overshadowed by a lot of other darkness," Cohan revealed. "I think I can say that much. Because they have found each other and just in time to sort of help everybody else in this huge battle that's continuing. They're completely underwater right now. We've had both of them at the absolute cliff edge of danger and death."
Will we get some heartfelt words between the two? Maybe. But, for now, Cohan just describes the world's worst game of Marco Polo.
"We shot that scene and I screamed 'Glennnnnnn!' so much I lost my voice," Cohan said. "And then we didn't quite get it so I did it all over again in ADR [automated dialogue replacement]. That's the biggest screaming I've had yet in the show."
You'd think that going into the studio to scream for the fictional love of your life would be a bit off-putting, but Cohan seems to just roll with the punches after six years on "The Walking Dead."
"I break a sweat when I'm in there because you're literally running and trying to match every physicality that you were in during shooting," Cohan continued. "And, you know, half the time it's like fighting. I'm wrestling on the ground and then jumping up and yelling into a mike or something. It's awkward, but it's also the best part of acting because you get to just roll around. I always think it would be funny if you filmed it with no sound to see an actor in a black booth by themselves with headsets on acting like a cat."
"The Walking Dead" will return to AMC on Sunday, Feb. 14.
