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'The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon' cast and crew stop by THR's suite at San Diego Comic-Con and dish on their Hall H panel and teasing season three of the show. Plus, they react to their final season announcement and what the hope for the show.

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00:00It really feels like the first couple of years of walking that it did.
00:04It feels good, like that gritty, remember how dirty we were?
00:08It was all gritty.
00:10We were genuinely entering into new territory.
00:13Yeah, that's true.
00:14And that's what it feels like here.
00:15It does feel a little bit like we're starting over.
00:18Yeah.
00:26You had a huge Hall H panel today.
00:28What is it like being up on that Hall H stage and just seeing all of the fans in the crowd going crazy for footage of the show?
00:35I think it feels great.
00:37Like Greg was saying on the panel, we used to come here, we would work on the show in Georgia,
00:42and we sort of cut off from the outside world, and we'd come here, we'd get energized from that crowd,
00:48and we'd go back to work.
00:49It feels great to be able to still fill up Hall H after all these years.
00:54It's awesome.
00:55It's great.
00:56What was it like giving them a preview of season three today?
00:59What was their reaction?
01:01Great.
01:02The trailer's exciting, you know, continuing Daryl and Carol's European voyage and adventure from France to Madrid through London.
01:12It's awesome.
01:12The cool thing about Spain is it's right across the border from France, but it's totally different in so many ways.
01:17So, like, architecturally and geographically and culturally and historically,
01:21and so there's all these really cool things for us to explore and let infuse the story
01:26and to create a new environment and a new story for these great characters to be engaged with and get involved in.
01:34And so the show, it's the same show, but it has a completely different vibe, which is really exciting.
01:38In season three, to sort of go, okay, we're doing the show, and it's about these two people,
01:42but it looks different, it smells different, it feels different, it sounds different, and it's fun.
01:46Like you were saying, The Walking Dead has been coming to Comic-Con for years.
01:50How would you compare, you know, your early days at Comic-Con with The Walking Dead now being here with, you know, the spinoff?
01:56Well, it's like we're kind of family here now.
01:58You know, I mean, the fans, I see the same people, and they're like,
02:01oh, look, here's a picture of us ten years ago.
02:04I mean, Norman was, Norman met a little girl today who he had a picture of holding her as a baby.
02:09So our fans are so loyal and so devoted that they will continue to come and support the show
02:14and support, you know, everything that we do, and that's pretty, that's pretty amazing.
02:18Why do you think fans have connected with Carol and Daryl in the way that they have?
02:22And so many have just said that this is, in their minds, the best spinoff so far to come out of The Walking Dead universe.
02:28So true, so true.
02:29I'll take that.
02:30I think it's hard for people to fake having real friendships and the bond that we have on the show we've earned.
02:41You know, we've put the time in to have this kind of a relationship.
02:46Nothing's fake.
02:47We get on each other's nerves.
02:49We love each other.
02:50It's all there on camera.
02:51It's all real.
02:53I get on your nerves all the time.
02:54Don't lie.
02:55I get on yours.
02:56So much.
02:58Yes.
02:59But it's true.
03:00Like, I think you can feel it on screen.
03:02You can feel how close they are.
03:04But I love you.
03:04I love you, too.
03:05I know.
03:06What can you tease about the journey we're going to see them go on together in season three?
03:10What he just said.
03:13Yeah.
03:14Well, you know, it's season three.
03:18Sorry.
03:19Season three, it gets complicated in ways that we come across another group and they have a certain way of doing things.
03:27And it goes south.
03:29And then we sort of get involved.
03:31And then season four, which we just started filming, there's a tone in it of all we do is run and fight.
03:39All we do is run and fight.
03:40Like, there's got to be a better way to live.
03:42And I guess we're maturing as characters.
03:46I guess we're starting to realize things we didn't quite realize before.
03:49So, how am I doing?
03:51That's good.
03:51Also, ending up where we end up, we're kind of maybe disrupting a little bit other people's systems of survival as we try to understand them.
04:02Learning how to sort of integrate ourselves into this community while we try to find a way home.
04:09And some things happen.
04:12And there is a love story.
04:14There's love stories involved with these young people.
04:17And then there's a mystery man that Carol is kind of curious about.
04:22And, yes.
04:26Anyway, there's a lot to look forward to in season three and four.
04:29There's a lot of evolution.
04:30Yeah.
04:31And it's gorgeous.
04:33It was announced today that season four will be the final season.
04:36How does it feel stepping into this final chapter?
04:38You know, you want this?
04:40No, you say it.
04:41You know, I would say this.
04:42I would say this, though, if I might jump in.
04:44Do.
04:44No, get it.
04:45You know, we were of two minds.
04:46We were of two minds to talk about it.
04:47Only because that's like getting so far ahead of things, you know?
04:51Like, we're putting season three out.
04:53We're super proud of it.
04:55It's an amazing season that reinvents the show.
05:00And does it in a way that it brings in Western, like, you know, cowboy kind of Westerns.
05:07Like, man with no name, like Sergio Leone.
05:10There's so much history in there.
05:12And I remember just going to one of the main places where we shot this village.
05:17It is unbelievable.
05:19The locations are unbelievable.
05:21We have so much to talk about with season four.
05:23But we've got September 7th, season three of this show.
05:28We want people to watch it.
05:29It's also an extended three and four.
05:32We have more episodes.
05:33So there's a lot of stories still left to tell.
05:36And it really feels like the first couple of years of Walking Dead, which is something I personally have been chasing forever.
05:43And I've gotten little bits and pieces of it.
05:45But it feels good.
05:47It feels kind of like that gritty.
05:48Remember how dirty we were?
05:50It was all gritty and new territory.
05:54We were genuinely entering into new territory.
05:58Yeah.
05:58And that's what it feels like here.
06:00And in a way, it does feel a little bit like we're starting over.
06:05Yeah.
06:06What is it like to really bring it full circle in that way?
06:09You said it's reminding you of the beginning.
06:10It's what I always wanted.
06:12It was a true family bond where it was creative and everyone had each other's backs.
06:19And you don't know you're making lightning in a bottle when you're making it.
06:23You know what I mean?
06:24But it's definitely a vibration.
06:27And it feels like we're on that same vibration again.
06:30It feels great.
06:31It's what I always wanted.
06:32And when people ask me about it, I always say I'm chasing that.
06:36And I feel like we've found it.
06:38Does it make sense?
06:39Yeah.
06:39Perfect.
06:40Everyone's like, look.
06:41It's been a long Comic-Con weekend.
06:43But before you go, I want to have you answer a couple of our fun Comic-Con bucket questions.
06:47So, Melissa and Norman, if you want to grab them.
06:52And then maybe everybody can answer.
06:54Okay.
06:55What's something that makes you hulk out your biggest pet peeve?
07:00What do you hulk out over?
07:01Bad umbrella etiquette.
07:04I live in New York, and there's just people in the middle of the sidewalk.
07:09They poke you in the head.
07:09Like, oh my God, look at me here.
07:11And you're like, whoa, whoa.
07:12Poke you.
07:12Yeah, umbrella etiquette.
07:14I think one of my pet peeves is when somebody advances to the front of the line.
07:19You know, you got like three, like you're at the grocery store, and you have three lines
07:22that are open, and somebody's waiting a long time.
07:25It's always the guy at the end of the line who just got in line, going to the front of
07:30the line, instead of the one who's been standing there for 20 minutes.
07:33When they open a new line.
07:34Drives me crazy.
07:36I would say unqualified internet TV and movie reviewers.
07:41People that have no right to review something, and they'll put a review out there.
07:47Box office projections drives me insane.
07:50Because when I was younger, it didn't matter how much money the movie made, it mattered
07:55if it was fucking good or entertaining.
07:58Just go see it, because what happens is, oh, the movie's not making expectations.
08:02So people go, oh, it must not be good.
08:04True.
08:04So they don't go to the movies because Hollywood sensationalizes projections.
08:10Wait, wait, were it interviews?
08:11Yeah.
08:12I didn't say Hollywood Reporter.
08:14I said Hollywood in general.
08:15We don't make those projections, but we do report them, so guilty.
08:19You should stop doing that, by the way, and then I would be happy.
08:22If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
08:24Destroy the internet.
08:24And why?
08:26Destroy the internet.
08:27Would it be a superpower?
08:28I'm with you.
08:29When it was all kittens and stuff, it was much better.
08:32Yeah.
08:33Right?
08:33I just think mind reading would be the way to go for me.
08:36Why would you want to know what everyone's thinking?
08:38I would, that would crush me.
08:40What would yours be?
08:40I would want to heal people.
08:43That's lovely.
08:43Oh, that's good.
08:45Yeah, I love that.
08:46Just, be good now.
08:48Do it again.
08:49Yeah, I need like three or four.
08:51I would say for the pet peeve, public whistling, and then superpower, you know, Superman really covers
08:59a lot, but time manipulation is, that, I just need that.
09:04What is it about public whistling that?
09:07Public whistling is like, hey, listen to me solo.
09:10Really?
09:11Yeah.
09:11Are you a public whistler?
09:13I think I might be.
09:15I mean, have you like been in the grocery store or somebody and somebody's like going to town whistling?
09:21I'm, no.
09:21Maybe they're just happy.
09:23Yeah.
09:23I guess I can't handle it.
09:25Are you guys all cool with public whistling?
09:27I am.
09:28I'm cool with it.
09:29So.
09:30Yeah.
09:30Wow.
09:31My pet peeve would be when people order fish on an airplane, and then the whole plane smells
09:37like fish.
09:37Like, you have to be such an asshole to order fish.
09:40Terminal on to the plane.
09:40Oh, it's the worst.
09:41It's like, who ordered the fish?
09:42You know, it's so, it just upsets me so much.
09:46And then my superpower, like mute, I can mute, or like dim the sun.
09:50Yeah, that would be good.
09:52Just put it on a dimmer switch.
09:54I like the mute.
09:55Mute.
09:56Yeah.
09:56But you see the mute, I think that.
09:58See?
09:59See how good that is?
10:00It's good.
10:02It's good.
10:03It's good.
10:03It's good.

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