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“I didn’t know Frank as well as you guys knew Frank. It was only six episodes, I came on on number three,” Reedus recalled to Jon Bernthal on his Real Ones podcast. “Frank didn’t have the conversations with — he was like, in love with you and Andy [Lincoln] and Sarah [Wayne Callies], you guys were the group. I didn’t know him as well as you knew him, I just met him. You guys when to Comic-Con, I believe, and it was announced while it was at Comic-Con, some crazy sh-t like that. I was bummed.”
He continued, “I remember working with him and he was so in it, like I remember, at one point, I’m crawling under a car and I jump up on T-Dog and all of this stuff happens, and the makeup artist, [Frank] was like, ‘Norman needs more dirt,’ and she was like, ‘No, no, that matches.’ And he goes, ‘Ugh,’ picks up grease off the ground and just wipes it across my face. I was like, ‘Oh, my God, I love you so much.’”
Darabont wasn’t the only one who loved seeing Reedus covered in dirt, as the star himself took every opportunity to get even more messy, regardless of what the makeup team planned for him.
“You remember, back then, all I wanted to be was filthy, I was so dirty. I would steal the dirt, get back to my room, and apply more to it when they weren’t looking. They’d be like, ‘You’re so filthy,’ and I was like, ‘I want them to smell me.’ I loved it, I’m a dude, I thought, ‘Yes!’” the actor joked. “But Frank, to work with, he was so inspirational.”
Reedus will return to the zombie franchise with the upcoming spinoff The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.
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