AMC released their latest Q&A for The Walking Dead Season 3. This time, we hear from Dallas Roberts, who talks about preparing to play Milton, failed experiments, and a rivalry between the prison and Woodbury actors:
Q: Milton is quite the egghead. Did you do anything especially geeky to prepare to play him? Hit up some trivia nights? Sit in on some graduate school seminars?
A: I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies. I understand that part of Milton. I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper and you put something back on film and that affects what they put on the paper the next time. It's been a growing, evolving relationship with Milton and I feel like hopefully everyone is working together to make him as great as possible.
Q: Is there any rivalry between the Woodbury actors and the prison gang?
A: The early episodes are either highly prison or highly Woodbury-centric -- it's rare that those two locations would work on the same day. I don't think I met Andrew [Lincoln] or Norman [Reedus] until Episode 8! But we started to write letters to each other on the makeup mirrors. Laurie would write like, "Woodbury's great," or "What are you guys doing?" or "Woodbury rules." And then the next day, Andrew would write back something like, "We're coming to kill you."
Q: At Woodbury, there's a lot less zombie slaying going around, but if you were going to pick out a weapon for Milton, what would it be?
A: That's the bad thing about being Milton; you don't do a lot of zombie slashing. The good news about that is that you're not running through the woods with a bunch of fake blood caked all over you. I don't even know what weapon they would give Milton. Some sort of slingshot, maybe.
Q: Are you hoping that Milton will bloom into a full-blown mad scientist?
A: Eagle-eyed viewers will recognize that literally every idea that Milton has forwarded since he showed up on the show has failed. That will probably keep the megalomania necessary for a true mad scientist from taking hold.
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To read the rest of the Q&A, head over to the official AMC website. We'll be talking to Dallas Roberts later this week about his upcoming movie, Shadow People, and we'll try to get in a few Milton questions as well. Catch up on our recent coverage by visiting the following links:
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