The door is “slammed”

There are still eight episodes left until the end of The Walking Dead, but don’t expect to see Glenn one last time. Steven Yeun, who starred in the first six seasons of the AMC zombie drama, rules out a return to The Walking Dead Universe as Glenn Rhee. Like his comic book counterpart, Glenn’s fate was to be the victim of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), killed by the villain’s bloodthirsty baseball bat in the show’s Season 7 premiere. Unlike Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz) — the episode other victim who reappeared in a dream sequence later this season – Glenn has yet to return to the series in a flashback or an afterlife appearance.

And according to Yeun, Glenn never will. While promoting Jordan Peele Nope film about animator Conan O’Brien’s Conan needs a friendYeun recalls meeting two fans who asked him, “Is [The Walking Dead] kill you, or did you want to leave?”

Yeun replied that it was “complicated”, telling O’Brien, “Sometimes you just accept what it is and go for it. There’s no tension behind it.” Because Glenn suffered the same fate in issue #100 of Robert Kirkman’s comic, Yeun explained, “You’re like, ‘OK.’ …I’m not going to kick and scream.

Whereas The Walking Dead occasionally brings dead characters back as hallucinations, Yeun has no interest in reprising the role, either in flashbacks or in a Glenn prequel. (Yeun explained in 2018, “Sometimes people say to me, ‘Man, wouldn’t it be so cool if you did a Glenn origin movie?’ And I’m like, ‘No, that would be awful.’ was so long ago. I was a different person. I don’t think I could go back.”)

“The police voice in my head said, ‘If you do it again, you’re a hack,'” he told O’Brien. “So I’m not doing it again. I cringe [at the thought].”

When O’Brien noted that “it’s not like Glenn can come back and go, ‘I’ve got a terrible headache and my eye is knocked out, but I think I’m fine'”, Yeun said that he was grateful for the finality of Glenn’s death.

“These are the blessings I think I have in my life,” Yeun said. “An absolutely closed door. There’s not like a crack in the door. It’s closed and barricaded.”

AMC will soon release the first season of the spin-off Tales of the Living Dead, an episodic anthology series focusing on new and established characters from the walker apocalypse, including those who have already passed away. Premiere August 14 Tales features an origin story for Alpha of the Whisperers (Samantha Morton) after she was killed in a Season 10 episode of The Walking Dead.

The Walking Dead returns with the final eight episodes on AMC and AMC+ in October.

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