AMC's latest interview feature is with Sarah Wayne Callies, who plays Lori on the show, and talks about last night's episode of The Walking Dead. If you haven't seen the latest episode, you'll want to pass on reading this, as there are spoilers:

"Q: Looking back, what are some favorite memories from being on the show?

A: One of my favorite movements was watching Andy Lincoln drive! I think he got his license about a year before we started the show. And he's English. Watching Andy try and drive the Cherokee was hilarious. At a certain point we had to pull it over because green flames were coming out of the hood. He'd never really get it into gear because the labels that showed you what gear you were in were gone. In a late episode last season, Lori is on the porch while Rick and Glenn are leaving to go after Hershel. I've said goodbye to Rick and he's supposed to drive away, but he couldn't get that thing into gear! He was just staring daggers at me.

Q: Did you do anything in particular to put your character to rest?

A: We started having death dinners for everyone who got killed off the show beginning in Season 1. After some one's last episode, all the actors would go out to dinner together and raise a glass to them. Those dinners became a big tradition. We're a bigger cast so we have to be a bit more private. Steven came up to me during Episode 1 this season and he said, "I don't think you should have to do your own death dinner," and he said he'd do it for me. And I said, "Wow, that's incredibly sweet." And he came up to me a week later and said, "How do you do it?" And I said, "You find a restaurant that has a private room and you tell them that you're throwing a birthday party." And he kept coming up to me, and was like, "But which restaurant?" It ended up being, adorably, twice as much work! The whole cast came though and I said a farewell.

Q: When did you find out that this season would be Lori's last?

A: I was at a refugee camp in Thailand in February. I came back and got off the plane and basically did an interview right away. I got off of that call and got one from Glen Mazzara, who said we're going to lose Lori. It was an interesting sequence of events because my mind was not on the show at all; it was wrapped up with issues about medical care and gender safety in this refugee camp. I think it put it in its proper perspective: which is that it's very hard and very sad and it's a television show. I'm grateful I got to do this for two and a half seasons.

Q: After you left the set in Atlanta, was it difficult to keep Lori's death a secret?

A: Most of what I told people was true, which was that this season has such a big cast that it takes place in two locations -- and every character has time off. But I was also deliberately misleading people...There have been a lot of questions that I've had to answer really creatively. I'm really relieved that I can stop doing that now."

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We just wrapped up a seprate interview with Sarah Wayne Callies today and will have our interview feature later this week. To read the rest of AMC's feature, visit: http://blogs.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/2012/11/sarah-wayne-callies-interview.php

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