After announcing this summer that he’d be leaving the show, Andrew Lincoln has just two episodes of The Walking Dead remaining, with AMC confirming this week that Rick Grimes’ final episode will air on November 4th.
“There’s something beautiful in the original DNA of the show in that it is all about change,” said Lincoln during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “The show will live on and it will continue to be great. What I don’t want to do is stay too long when I think the show will actually benefit from other people taking the reins and forging a new path. And that’s what I think is happening now. It’s beautiful watching and seeing my dear friends who are incredible actors doing extraordinary things and turning it into a new show. And that is enormously gratifying.”
“It’s exciting because there is a sense that there is a new vision for the show,” Lincoln continued, referring to the show’s changes in its ninth season under new showrunner Angela Kang. “I think Angela and everybody involved in it are performing out of their socks. To the best of their ability they’re putting it all out there. It’s a really exciting landscape that all of the characters are inhabiting. It’s the show I always thought we’d get to when I did the pilot — a pared down, much more dangerous and compromising and spare landscape.”
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While Rick is on borrowed time, Lincoln has already suggested that he’s keen to return to the world of The Walking Dead for its tenth season, albeit behind the camera as a director.
