The Walking Dead': Khary Payton on Ezekiel and Carol, Season
Aug 30, 2017 13:44:56 GMT -5
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Post by Meggo358 on Aug 30, 2017 13:44:56 GMT -5
Ripley I'm following your lead in putting this in the character thread since there are no true spoilers but of course I'll defer to you if you think it should go elsewhere.
Some highlights:
"Your King Ezekiel is different from the Ezekiel in the comics. For one, he is more grounded. Did you talk about that with the writers and producers? I think the important thing to remember about when I was researching the comic books for the show is that it is source material; it’s source material, and it is an alternate universe. It’s not the same place. There are very different, not just moments that happen from the comic to the show, but … Daryl literally doesn’t exist in the comic book, Morgan and Carol have been dead for years in the comic books. There are huge discrepancies between the two stories that are being told. So I learned early on that whatever I was taking from the comic book, I needed to take it with a grain of salt, and always go with what the script is giving me, what’s in front of me.
There’s a lightness, a playfulness, with Ezekiel that was much needed in Season 7. His relationship with Jerry became an instant fan favorite. I adore [those scenes]. And I wish we had more of ’em. We actually have a lot, but we had to pack in a lot of fun in really short quips and moments, and sometimes I wish we could just sit around and shoot the s*** with Jerry for a while, you know? But those moments are quick and I absolutely hold them so close to my heart, because in a show like this, we can’t sit down to have fun that often. If you’re having too much fun, that means something bad’s about to happen. So I really enjoy and I cherish those moments. And they never end up turning out exactly the way we expect them to. They’re always kind of quirky and take on a little bit of a life of their own. I think when I told Jerry to leave the cobbler, and he’s got half of a peach sticking out of his mouth, I could barely respond to him. I didn’t say the line that I was supposed to afterwards. I think I just said, “Fine,” because that’s all I could get out, because I was about to bust out laughing.
Are you looking forward to the fact that in Season 8 the communities are banded together, now that they have officially united?
Oh, yeah. I mean, the thing is that we’re not just all together. We’re all of the same mind, you know? We’re all coming together to slay a dragon. And we know that we can’t do it without each other. There’s a beauty to that kind of brotherhood. It’s born of blood. We’ve all had blood spilled. And that to me was the point of no return for all of us. It’s that we weren’t there to kill for killing’s sake. We’re there to kill only if there was no other way to live. And we found there was no other way to live, except to put our lives on the line. So here we go. And those are the moments in your life when you step out in the clear, knowing that someone next to you has your back. Those are the best times of your life if you look back on ’em. Season 8 is going to be a truly vibrant moment in the lives of these characters. I can’t wait for people to see it."
www.yahoo.com/tv/walking-dead-khary-payton-ezekiel-carol-season-8-shiva-152712878.html
Some highlights:
"Your King Ezekiel is different from the Ezekiel in the comics. For one, he is more grounded. Did you talk about that with the writers and producers? I think the important thing to remember about when I was researching the comic books for the show is that it is source material; it’s source material, and it is an alternate universe. It’s not the same place. There are very different, not just moments that happen from the comic to the show, but … Daryl literally doesn’t exist in the comic book, Morgan and Carol have been dead for years in the comic books. There are huge discrepancies between the two stories that are being told. So I learned early on that whatever I was taking from the comic book, I needed to take it with a grain of salt, and always go with what the script is giving me, what’s in front of me.
There’s a lightness, a playfulness, with Ezekiel that was much needed in Season 7. His relationship with Jerry became an instant fan favorite. I adore [those scenes]. And I wish we had more of ’em. We actually have a lot, but we had to pack in a lot of fun in really short quips and moments, and sometimes I wish we could just sit around and shoot the s*** with Jerry for a while, you know? But those moments are quick and I absolutely hold them so close to my heart, because in a show like this, we can’t sit down to have fun that often. If you’re having too much fun, that means something bad’s about to happen. So I really enjoy and I cherish those moments. And they never end up turning out exactly the way we expect them to. They’re always kind of quirky and take on a little bit of a life of their own. I think when I told Jerry to leave the cobbler, and he’s got half of a peach sticking out of his mouth, I could barely respond to him. I didn’t say the line that I was supposed to afterwards. I think I just said, “Fine,” because that’s all I could get out, because I was about to bust out laughing.
Are you looking forward to the fact that in Season 8 the communities are banded together, now that they have officially united?
Oh, yeah. I mean, the thing is that we’re not just all together. We’re all of the same mind, you know? We’re all coming together to slay a dragon. And we know that we can’t do it without each other. There’s a beauty to that kind of brotherhood. It’s born of blood. We’ve all had blood spilled. And that to me was the point of no return for all of us. It’s that we weren’t there to kill for killing’s sake. We’re there to kill only if there was no other way to live. And we found there was no other way to live, except to put our lives on the line. So here we go. And those are the moments in your life when you step out in the clear, knowing that someone next to you has your back. Those are the best times of your life if you look back on ’em. Season 8 is going to be a truly vibrant moment in the lives of these characters. I can’t wait for people to see it."
www.yahoo.com/tv/walking-dead-khary-payton-ezekiel-carol-season-8-shiva-152712878.html
