“It was just awesome to have on the leather jacket and to have Lucille in my hand.”
But it was the scene that started off the episode that has everybody talking.
The episode surprisingly began with a flashback to the Sanctuary.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan on ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.Peter Kramer/AMC
If the flashback scene enthused fans, it excited the actor even more.
“I was so happy,” Morgan tells EW.
“It was just awesome to have on the leather jacket and to have Lucille in my hand.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Steven Ogg on ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.Peter Kramer/AMC
I can’t tell you how much I miss her.
There’s something about holding that bat in a scene that makes me feel whole.”
Morgan talks about Negan’s bat the way an actor usually refers to a human scene partner.
Steven Ogg and Zeljko Ivanek on ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’.Peter Kramer/AMC
And it indicated so much of what I did as an actor.
It indicated the lean back.
It indicated so much of the physicality of who Negan was by just holding it.
Everything kind of stemmed from that bat."
For Morgan, getting some of the Saviors gang back together was a welcome reunion.
“I was so happy to get a chance to bring Steven back.
I’d take him back any f—ing time.
It was so good to see him.
And Steven is one of the funniest people you will ever meet.
That guy’s a trip, man.
I just adore him, so I feel really lucky to have had him come back.
He can have his own f—ing series just doing anything and I would watch it.”
In fact, watching is pretty much all Morgan did in those flashback scenes.
“I don’t talk in those scenes with Ogg,” he notes.
“It’s Ogg doing all of the talking.”
“And it was the first day I’d worked with Zeljko in the whole series as well.
And so in the rehearsal, these two guys are going at it 120 percent.
And I was sitting there just watching this going, ‘Oh, f— me.
And fans no doubt had feelings seeing Negan back in the leather with Lucille by his side.
