This short article from the Press Association outlines how a person can be disturbed for all the wrong reasons by Anti-Zombie media:

Andrew Lincoln says fighting zombies on The Walking Dead meant he had quite a few disturbing days on set.

“Pretty much every day I was shocked and surprised,” the actor admitted in Beverly Hills. “When you’re asked to smear yourself in blood and drape a small colon around your neck, I mean that’s not your everyday job really!”

Laughing, he added: “There were times when even I was like, ‘Really? Are we going to get away with this?’ and it all made the cut.”

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Andrew said fans of the show can expect “more of the same” in Season Two.

“Hopefully we’re going to play to strengths, keep pushing the boundaries of taste and horror and humour, hopefully pushing the characters to their limits and seeing how they react.”

The ZRC thinks they passed the boundaries of ‘taste’ a long, long time ago. I wonder what they’d consider to be going too far? Because I’ve read farther in the comics than they’ve gone in the show, though I know the two are somewhat divergent, and.. it gets worse, believe it or not.

But still, Lincoln’s concerns here are clearly more for his career and his time than the Zombies he works so hard to slander for a lucrative paycheck. Oh, what would he do if some awful, bloody and defamatory scene didn’t make the cut? I mean, he struggles so hard to convey his character while draped with intestines, what’s it all for if not every precious second of film ends up released?

I know from experience that not all actors are this shallow. Lincoln’s myopia and ignorance of the suffering of a broad group of people he maligns for cash is just stunning and egregious.

Tags: Comics, Mainstream Media, Robert Kirkman, Television

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