Upon unveiling Negan's kill during the premiere of "The Walking Dead" Season 7 on Sunday, American cable network AMC gave the cast the privilege to open up about the dark days on set and how long have they known that the day was coming.
With Abraham and Glenn bidding farewell right in the opening hour of the show's seventh year, both Michael Cudlitz and Steven Yeun are finally given the spotlight to talk about their timely exit from the Walking Dead series.
As expected, they already have hints about their upcoming demise during Negan's introduction, which was over a year ago. It was way before TWD Season 6 finale that fans created the mystery of "Who did Negan kill?"
Cudlitz didn't want to spoil anyone
Furthermore, Cudlitz and Yeun were not the only ones with the knowledge of their futures despite the cast asserting themselves to be unaware after the finale's airing in April.
In an interview with Cudlitz on Monday morning, just after the brutal Season 7 premiere, he has this to say: "I found about it a year and three months ago. They secretly told me that they were going to take me out.
They were planning it for the end of season 6 and the beginning of season 7. That time, they were still unsure about how they were going to do it, Scott [Gimple] wasn't certain about how he wanted it to structure the whole story."
The cast kept what needs to be kept
Though this was a shocking revelation, it just felt right that they had to balance it all, knowing that there are some people trying to get some valuable information such us that one, and for them to spread it out in the open would spoil everyone.
Just when the sixth season ended, the cast and crew claimed that the recent death scenes had not been filmed yet. However, Culditz claimed that the cast has lied all this time and explained that Abraham has long been dead.
