“And the people I trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts think it is hilarious – I am classically trained and yet I wear cowboy boots and a Stetson and I shoot zombies for a living.
He originally trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), and apparently his peers find his tenure on the zombie show quite amusing. “I didn’t realize that I would ever play something for six years,” he told the Express ahead of season 7.
Following season 6’s dramatic cliffhanger, The Walking Dead returns for a seventh season on 23 October – you can read everything we know about it here.
He says hilarious, I’m sure his non-AMC drama-starring friends find it hilarious in a ‘cry themselves to sleep’ kind of way.