The most common question you were asked was, “Why aren’t you dead yet?”

(Laughs) Yeah, man, I don’t know. I can imagine that would be a common question. I don’t know what I can say about that. I hadn’t read the comic before I read Frank (Darabont)’s pilot script, and — for an actor like me, who’s at the beginning of his career and going through pilot season — when I read the script, it blew me away. It was better than anything else out there. And I really felt that, for this part and for this project, I should say “No” and not commit to anything else before I got my day in court on The Walking Dead.

I didn’t know anything about the comic or Robert Kirkman … I knew about Frank, of course, but that was it. But it was also Gale Anne Hurd, and it was Frank, and it was AMC, and it was … y’know, it was a f–kin’ rad-ass script! They did tell me that Shane was a character that does die (in the comics), but it didn’t faze me. I just really wanted to be a part of this thing. There was no specificity whatsoever about how long I would last in this thing.

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