I am nothing without pretend

I know my faults

can’t live with them [x]

I will let you down

I will make you hurt [x]

idbangshanewalsh:

Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) essentially told Rick (Andrew Lincoln) to kill Shane (Jon Bernthal) in the closing scene. Has she turned evil in a way?

Yes and no. People are very interested in seeing us develop the characters. What’s interesting is when you consider that scene, that character is now developing in a way that is going to surprise everybody, and, to me, that scene is pretty clear-cut. We know that Lori makes foolish decisions. We saw her attempt to take morning-after pills as a birth control method. That’s clearly not plausible, but she doesn’t know that. So, she is a woman who does exercise poor judgment.

So, when she drives off now, she’s trapped, and we see that she is actually surprisingly adept in this world, that she can single-handedly kill two zombies with her bare hands. Shane’s going out to save her, but she doesn’t need to be saved. Yet it’s Shane’s speech to her saying, “You know what we had was real, that you’re trying to rewrite history because you’re trying to sanitize the truth,” that strikes a chord with her because Shane is right. That frightens her and threatens her and it leads her to that whisper in Rick’s ear, à la Lady Macbeth. It’s very interesting because she is clearly playing one man against the other, and she favors things in both men. She would think the ultimate man for her would be a combination of the two.

How will this affect Rick, knowing that his wife basically told him to kill his best friend?

It will be played out in the next episode. The next episode is an episode that really puts Shane and Rick at odds, and Rick is tired of secrets, and a lot will come spilling out.

With news that Jon Bernthal is in talks for Frank Darabont’s new TNT pilot, it seems that Shane’s impending demise is the worst kept secret of this year. What would you say to fans who feel cheated by the news possibly being out there already?

Let’s say this: You know the Shane character was killed off in the comic book very, very early. We are a show that is going to surprise people. People can speculate. I haven’t read the Frank script, but it is conceivable that Bernthal’s character gets offed in that pilot. I haven’t read it. So I don’t want to say anything about secrets or spoilers or anything like that, but I think fans will be satisfied with our story, and I’m just going to focus on that, not other material.