When Andrew Lincoln confirmed his exit from The Walking Dead, many speculated who might take his place as the drama’s leading man. Norman Reedus? No chance.
Distancing himself from co-star Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s cryptic “stepping up” comments, Norman Reedus has insisted that Lincoln’s character, Rick Grimes, will not be replaced.
Not by him, anyway.
Responding to rumours that his character Daryl Dixon will be the so-called ‘new Rick’, Reedus told TV Guide: “I don’t think anyone’s gonna step up and be Rick.”
“I think everybody on the show is gonna step up and elevate their game and fill that hole,” he added – insisting he doesn’t think there will be “a new Rick.”
“I know the internet’s like, ‘Screw Norman! Who does he think he is?’, [but] I’ve just got to sit there [and] go, ‘Huh, whatever’. Everybody sort of steps up to the plate.”
While Norman Reedus clearly doesn’t want the role of Alexandria’s new leader, that doesn’t mean Daryl can’t do it – or does it?
When asked if Daryl had the potential to follow in Rick’s unifying footsteps, Reedus disagreed. “He’s got that antihero, anti-leader thing going on, you know what I mean?” he said.
The Walking Dead airs on AMC in the US, and on FOX and NOW TV in the UK. Season 9 premieres on October 7 in the US and October 8 in the UK.
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