Following on from comments made during SDCC last month, actor Lennie James, who plays Morgan in The Walking Dead, told Entertainment Weekly that the next series will indeed explore the character’s transformation from shut-in trap master to wandering badass with a stick.
James is quoted during SDCC as saying “There’s a big question to answer about Morgan, both about the show but also for me in the playing of him. There’s a couple of dots to be joined that we haven’t gotten to yet in the playing of him. So I’m kind of exploring that.”
He added, “Sometimes, the most incendiary thing you can do is take a position of peace — and Morgan on one level is going to stir things up by taking a passive position. As I said in the [panel], that’s going to fly in the face of a few people’s ideas of how you survive in this present world, and he’s going to offer possibly an alternative that isn’t exactly going to land in the way he hopes or expects it to land.”
So it sounds like the road to peace will be a long one for our dear Morgan. Just from knowledge of the last few seasons, fans can already tell that the group is far from pacifist these days, which could cause a lot of problems down the line. We’ll just have to wait and see how this unfolds.
The Walking Dead returns to screens on October 12.
