Former The Walking Dead star Michael Rooker says that he thought the show would fail, and that “middle America would hate it.”
Of course, The Walking Dead did the polar opposite of fail, quickly becoming the highest rated scripted series in all of TV.
While Rooker has been a consistently working actor in both films and TV for decades, it’s amusing to learn that he thought of playing Merle on The Walking Dead as a paycheck gig that wouldn’t last.