Yahoo News Lennie James "hated" filming on Walking Dead this year
Upset that The Walking Dead split up its core cast in recent episodes? You're not alone...
Lennie James told press including Digital Spy that he "hated" working on the early part of season seven.
James's character Morgan featured in just two out of the eight episodes that've aired so far, with he and co-star Melissa McBride (Carol) shooting in a different location to many of their cast-mates.
"I swear to God, it was horrible... and it was the same for everybody," he said. "This season, everybody's had more time off than they have ever, ever had... but it was horrible. I hated it.
"You just didn't see anybody - because we film The Kingdom in a completely different area where they were filming either Alexandria or Hilltop or where the Saviours were... no-one was close to each other."
James revealed that, with so much time off, he flew back and forth from Atlanta - where The Walking Dead films - to his home in London several times.
"There was one point where I had three episodes off and I'm like, 'I'm just gonna go and see my kids, what am I doing in Atlanta for that amount of time?' - so I would leave town and that was exactly what everybody else was doing.
"No-one was around. I didn't see Andy [Lincoln, who plays Rick Grimes] for six weeks and in the end, when I saw him, we were both on a plane back to London to see our families. You just didn't see your mates!"
So aggrieved was James, he ended up taking his complaints to showrunner Scott Gimple: "I'm not a complainer, but I complained about it every day.
"I said to Scott, 'I see what you're doing, I really respect you, but don't ever do this to me again, 'cause I hate it!' - I just didn't see people, and then there's whole bunches of people at the wrap party that you've never met.
"It's like, 'Who are you? I don't know you! Where's my mates?' - it was horrible. I hated it."
Wow. The good news for Lennie - and, let's be honest, for all of us - is that The Walking Dead will be reuniting its scattered heroes this year as forces unite in the war against Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
The Walking Dead returns to FOX on Monday, February 13 at 9pm.
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