00:00It really feels like the first couple of years of walking that it did.
00:04It feels good, like that gritty. Remember how dirty we were?
00:08It was all gritty.
00:10We were genuinely entering into new territory.
00:13Yeah, that's true.
00:14And that's what it feels like here.
00:15It does feel a little bit like we're starting over.
00:18Yeah.
00:26You had a huge Hall H panel today.
00:28What is it like being up on that Hall H stage and just seeing all of the fans in the crowd going crazy for footage of the show?
00:35I think it feels great.
00:37Like Greg was saying on the panel, we used to come here, we would work on the show in Georgia,
00:42and we sort of cut off from the outside world, and we'd come here, we'd get energized from that crowd,
00:48and we'd go back to work.
00:49It feels great to be able to still fill up Hall H after all these years.
00:54It's awesome.
00:55It's great.
00:56What was it like giving them a preview of season three today?
00:59What was their reaction?
01:01Great.
01:02The trailer's exciting, you know, continuing Daryl and Carol's European voyage and adventure from France to Madrid through London.
01:12It's awesome.
01:12The cool thing about Spain is it's right across the border from France, but it's totally different in so many ways.
01:17So, like, architecturally and geographically and culturally and historically, and so there's all these really cool things for us to explore and let infuse the story
01:26and to create a new environment and a new story for these great characters to be engaged with and get involved in.
01:34And so the show, it's the same show, but it has a completely different vibe, which is really exciting in season three to sort of go,
01:40okay, we're doing the show, and it's about these two people, but it looks different, it smells different, it feels different, it sounds different, and it's fun.
01:46Like you were saying, The Walking Dead has been coming to Comic-Con for years.
01:50How would you compare, you know, your early days at Comic-Con with The Walking Dead now being here with, you know, the spinoff?
01:56Well, it's like we're kind of family here now, you know, I mean, the fans, I see the same people, and they're like,
02:01oh, look, here's a picture of us ten years ago.
02:04I mean, Norman was, Norman met a little girl today who he had a picture of holding her as a baby.
02:09So our fans are so loyal and so devoted that they will continue to come and support the show and support, you know, everything that we do.
02:16And that's pretty, that's pretty amazing.
02:18Why do you think fans have connected with Carol and Daryl in the way that they have?
02:22And so many have just said that this is, in their minds, the best spinoff so far to come out of The Walking Dead universe.
02:28So true, so true.
02:29I'll take that.
02:30I think it's hard for people to fake having real friendships and the bond that we have on the show we've earned.
02:42You know, we've put the time in to have this kind of a relationship.
02:46Nothing's fake.
02:47We get on each other's nerves.
02:49We love each other.
02:50It's all there on camera.
02:51It's all real.
02:53I get on your nerves all the time.
02:54Don't lie.
02:55I get on yours.
02:56So much.
02:57True.
02:58Yes.
02:59But it's true.
03:00Like, I think you can feel it on screen.
03:02You can feel how close they are.
03:04But I love you.
03:04I love you, too.
03:05I know.
03:06What can you tease about the journey we're going to see them go on together in season three?
03:10What he just said.
03:13Yeah.
03:14Well, you know, it's season three.
03:18Season three, it gets complicated in ways that we come across another group and they have a certain way of doing things.
03:26And it goes south.
03:29And then we sort of get involved.
03:31And then season four, which we just started filming, there's a tone in it of all we do is run and fight.
03:39All we do is run and fight.
03:40Like, there's got to be a better way to live.
03:42And I guess we're maturing as characters.
03:46I guess we're starting to realize things we didn't quite realize before.
03:49So, how am I doing?
03:51That's good.
03:51Also, ending up where we end up, we're kind of maybe disrupting a little bit other people's systems of survival as we try to understand them.
04:02Learning how to sort of integrate ourselves into this community while we try to find a way home.
04:10And some things happen.
04:12And there is a love story.
04:14There's love stories involved with these young people.
04:17And then there's a mystery man that Carol is kind of curious about.
04:23And yes.
04:26Anyway, there's a lot to look forward to in season three and four.
04:29There's a lot of evolution.
04:30Yeah.
04:31Yeah.
04:31And it's gorgeous.
04:33It was announced today that season four will be the final season.
04:36How does it feel stepping into this final chapter?
04:38You know, you want this?
04:40No, you say it.
04:41You know, I would say this.
04:42I would say this, though, if I might jump in.
04:44Do.
04:44No, good.
04:45You know, we were of two minds.
04:46We were of two minds to talk about it.
04:47Only because that's like getting so far ahead of things.
04:51You know?
04:51Like, we're putting season three out.
04:53We're super proud of it.
04:55It's an amazing season that reinvents the show and does it in a way that it brings in
05:03Western, like, you know, cowboy kind of Westerns, like man with no name, like Sergio Leone.
05:10There's so much history in there.
05:12And I remember just going to one of the main places where we shot this village.
05:17It is unbelievable.
05:19The locations are unbelievable.
05:21We have so much to talk about with season four.
05:23But we've got September 7th, season three of this show.
05:28We want people to watch it.
05:29It's also an extended three and four.
05:32We have more episodes.
05:33So there's a lot of stories still left to tell.
05:36And it really feels like the first couple of years of Walking Dead, which is something
05:41I personally have been chasing forever.
05:43And I've gotten little bits and pieces of it.
05:45But it feels good.
05:47It feels good, like that gritty.
05:48Remember how dirty we were?
05:50It was all gritty and new territory.
05:54We were genuinely entering into new territory.
05:58Yeah.
05:58And that's what it feels like here.
06:00And in a way, it does feel a little bit like we're starting over.
06:05What is it like to really bring it full circle in that way?
06:09You said it's reminding you of the beginning.
06:10It's what I always wanted.
06:12It was a true family bond where it was creative and everyone had each other's backs.
06:19And you don't know you're making lightning in a bottle when you're making it.
06:23You know what I mean?
06:24But it's definitely a vibration.
06:27And it feels like we're on that same vibration again.
06:30It feels great.
06:31It's what I always wanted.
06:32And when people ask me about it, I always say I'm chasing that.
06:36And I feel like we've found it.
06:38Does that make sense?
06:39Yeah.
06:39Perfect.
06:40It's been a long Comic-Con weekend.
06:43But before you go, I want to have you answer a couple of our fun Comic-Con bucket questions.
06:47So, Melissa and Norman, if you want to grab them.
06:52And then maybe everybody can answer.
06:54Okay.
06:55What's something that makes you hulk out?
06:59Your biggest pet peeve.
07:00What do you hulk out over?
07:01Bad umbrella etiquette.
07:03I live in New York and there's just people in the middle of the sidewalk.
07:09Poke you in the head.
07:09Like, oh my God, look at me here.
07:11And you're like, whoa, whoa.
07:12Poke you.
07:12Yeah, umbrella etiquette.
07:14I think one of my pet peeves is when somebody advances to the front of the line.
07:19You know, you got like three, like you're at the grocery store and you have three lines that are open.
07:23And somebody's waiting a long time.
07:24It's always the guy at the end of the line who just got in line going to the front of the line instead of the one who's been standing there for 20 minutes.
07:33When they open a new line.
07:34Drives me crazy.
07:36I would say unqualified internet TV and movie reviewers.
07:41People that have no right to review something and they'll put a review out there.
07:47Box office projections drives me insane.
07:51Because when I was younger, it didn't matter how much money the movie made.
07:54It mattered if it was fucking good or entertaining.
07:58Just go see it.
07:59Because what happens is, oh, the movie's not making expectations.
08:02So people go, oh, it must not be good.
08:04True.
08:04So they don't go to the movies because Hollywood sensationalizes projections.
08:10Wait, wait, we're in interviews?
08:11Yeah.
08:12I didn't say Hollywood Reporter.
08:14I said Hollywood in general.
08:16We don't make those projections, but we do report them.
08:18So guilty.
08:19You should stop doing that, by the way.
08:21And then I would be happy.
08:22If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
08:24Destroy the internet.
08:24And why?
08:26Destroy the internet.
08:27Would it be a superpower?
08:28I do.
08:29I'm with you.
08:29When it was all kittens and stuff, it was much better.
08:32Yeah.
08:33Right?
08:34I just think mind reading would be the way to go for me.
08:36Why would you want to know what everyone's thinking?
08:38I would, that would crush me.
08:40What would yours be?
08:40I would want to heal people.
08:42I would say for the pet peeve, public whistling and then superpower, you know, Superman really
08:59covers a lot, but time manipulation is, I just need that.
09:04What is it about public whistling that...
09:07Public whistling is like, hey, listen to me solo.
09:10Really?
09:11Yeah.
09:11Are you a public whistler?
09:13I think I might be.
09:15I mean, have you been in the grocery store or somebody and somebody's like going to town
09:19whistling?
09:21No.
09:21Maybe they're just happy.
09:23Yeah.
09:23I guess I can't handle it.
09:25Are you guys all cool with public whistling?
09:27I am.
09:28I'm cool with it.
09:29I can't whistle, so.
09:31Wow.
09:31My pet peeve would be when people order fish on an airplane and then the whole plane smells
09:37like fish.
09:37Like, you have to be such an asshole to order fish.
09:40Terminal on to the plane.
09:41It's like, who ordered the fish?
09:42You know, it's so, it just upsets me so much.
09:46And then my superpower, like mute, I can mute, or like dim the sun.
09:50Yeah, that would be good.
09:52Dim the sun.
09:52Just put it on a dimmer switch.
09:54I like the mute.
09:55Mute.
09:56Yeah.
09:56But you see the mute?
09:57I think that.
09:59See?
09:59See how good that is?
10:02It's good.
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