It's been four years since AMC's The Walking Dead characters Abraham and Glenn were brutally and graphically murdered, but the controversy over their deaths remains quite alive. Michael Cudlitz, who played Abraham on the series, still has his own thoughts on the characters' deaths.
“I always think it was a bridge too far, personally. I thought it was too much,” Cudlitz told the Talk Dead to Me podcast. “Either one of us should have lived a little bit longer because I think it was, people were very affected by it. They said, ‘Oh, my gosh, it was the most graphic brutal deaths. It was murder porn.’ All this stuff.”
“The fact that I think you loved Abraham and Glenn so much as an audience, that’s what makes it more brutal," Cudlitz continued. "And you sort of think, ‘Oh, OK. Oh, my gosh. It was Abraham. We’re sad that it was Abraham, but thank God it wasn’t Glenn.’ And, ‘OK. Oh, my gosh. OK.’ And, ‘Oh, my God. It’s Glenn, too! What are you doing to me?’ I think it’s the one-two punch that was maybe a little too much,” Cudlitz said.
After a suspenseful summer for viewers following the Season 6 finale, the Season 7 premiere revealed it was Abraham who fell victim to Negan's barbwire baseball bat. However, it was later revealed in the same episode that Glenn, played by Steven Yeun, was also subsequently killed in the same manner -- just as the character was in the comic series. Fan speculation had largely focused on a single character, but few surmised that the scene would deviate from the comic and kill two characters, rather than just one.
“I think you want to start the season with a little bit more of a hug than a punch to the face or throat,” Cudlitz said.
via Huffington Post