THE WALKING Dead actor Andrew J West has revealed he was so horrified by a cannibal slaughterhouse scene where men hung from hooks and had their throats slit.
Speaking out about the season five premiere, Andrew recalled he was surprised that one particularly gruesome set made it through without being heavily edited.
The actor played cannibal Terminus leader Gareth and at one point he and his gang of butcher-like ‘Termites’ violently offed several survivors in front of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Glenn (Steven Yeun).
Speaking on Skybound’s Talk Dead to Me podcast, he said: “I remember shooting that trough scene in the beginning, where my henchmen are going across and cutting the guys’ throats.
“[Greg] Nicotero was directing that episode, and I remember going up to him and saying, ‘Is this gonna air? How much of this are we gonna see?’”
Andrew recalled: “He’s like, ‘I don’t know, we’re going to try and get as much as we can.’ I remember thinking, ‘There’s no way. There’s no way AMC is gonna show all of this.’ And they did, they really did!”
The actor also spoke about his character’s brutal death at the hands of Rick, which saw the Sheriff-turned-leader hack at his body to avenge his murdered mates.
He said: “It blurred all these lines, and suddenly you were like, ‘What is okay in this world? What is not okay? How do you calibrate any sort of moral compass?’”.
“It really sort of played with the idea of heroes and villains, and it complicated things, and that’s what was so cool about that arc and the show in general.”
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