Following the premiere of The Walking Dead Episode 409, AMC released a brand new Q&A with Danai Gurira, who plays Michonne on the show. We have a portion that you can read right now, where she talks about some of her big moments from the new episode and preparing for walker kills:
via AMC- "Q: What was different for you playing Michonne this year?
A: Well, one of the things that’s really fun about Michonne is that she can be peeled back like an onion. It was really kind of interesting to allow walls to come down, and that does involve a whole different process. Seeing who that chick is, that was really fun.
Q: We see a lot of that peeling in the Mid-Season Premiere. Did you have any input into that?
A: Me and Scott [Gimple] have been conversing about this stuff for a while. He definitely had the lion’s share of it down. And it would concretize exactly what her story was. But it was really great because he had given a lot of understanding and thought to what her background was, and I materialized it.
Q: The dream sequence in Michonne’s apartment is memorable. Did you enjoy the chance to shoot a scene back in civilization?
A: Yeah, I got to be clean and pretty! That was great fun for all of us: great fun for Donna, the makeup artist; great fun for Taylor, who does hair. The more I read it and got into it, I’m like this is really deep and powerful. In her psyche, she’s so caught up on pushing down everything. And that’s what she does after she leaves the prison — she decides to go back to the old Michonne and that’s how she copes with pain and loss. But her conscious and her subconscious won’t let her do that anymore.
Q: Tell us about that epic kill scene in Episode 9. What part of that fight scene bears your mark?
A: I set up all those kills! So that was really fun. I’ve started to do my own choreography at times, so I had to come up with my own set of moves. For that scene, I created the choreography. I was only supposed to do like eight or ten kills, and then Greg just didn’t call cut so I just kept going. Every take, the first eight or ten kills was just me going without any specific setup that we’d done before. And the zombies just kind of came at me and accepted that I was going to kill them whichever way. So that was probably my most enjoyable zombie kill scene.
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To read the full Q&A, head over to AMC's official website for The Walking Dead TV series. To catch up on some of our exclusive interviews, check out our coverage highlights below:
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