Yahoo News Walking Dead star: 'You won't be prepared for season 8'
The Walking Dead's eighth season will be unlike any other before – according to one of the biggest stars of the show.
Danai Gurira, who plays the katana-wielding Michonne, promised that viewers will be shocked at how "deeply, deeply different" the new episodes are.
"We don't tend to tread the same ground twice," she told Entertainment Weekly. "It is a deeply different season premiere – deeply, deeply different and unpredictable and very, very rich in the story that's being told and powerfully acted and all of that.
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"That's what's amazing about the writers of the show.
"You can't be prepared for it. If you thought, 'Well, I've seen this, I've seen that, so I can be prepared for what's coming next' – no, you can't. You won't be prepared."
Gurira continued by saying that all of the cast have been impressed with the writing and the material that they've had to work with.
"It's like nothing before," she said. "We've all been knocked clear off our feet, and there's just so many ways everybody's story is expanded and deepened and sharpened.
"And the clashes that we're in take turns no one's going to expect. And at the same time, it remains palpably human, you know?
"It's definitely a season that is going to knock everyone off their feet. That, I can guarantee you."
One thing that seems to be happening this season is that Carol (Melissa McBride) is going to return to her old self.
"The strength and bravery that she shows as a person this season and the ingenuity that she employs... is very satisfying," showrunner Scott Gimple previously said.
The Walking Dead launches its eighth season on October 22 on AMC in the US and October 23 on FOX in the UK.
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