The Walking Dead: Dead City is fighting against a horde of invaders scarier than any zombie. Two unsuspecting members of the camera department eating breakfast burritos by the craft service table jump up and scream as an intruder from the offending group advances on their position.
While the actors playing Negan and Maggie are harnessed to ensure their safety, that doesn't make the journey any less harrowing as they look down at the sliver of beam that separates them from a fall onto unforgiving concrete, not to mention dozens of of hungry zombies.
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, Karina Ortiz
Morgan is the first to make the journey and wants to make sure the event is captured from all angles for posterity. "Make Barry shoot me across the beam," he bellows, referring to the handheld cameraman. "Nobody's going to believe I did this!"
As the cameras start rolling, Morgan hits the beam at breakneck speed, giggling after completing the crossing in a matter of seconds. "F--- I almost fell!" As for his Usain Bolt beat, the actor thought the less time he was on that beam, the better. "It goes slow when I start to freak out," he explains to the episode's director, Gandja Monteiro.
Freaking out also describes the current state of Lauren Cohan. "I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it," the actress repeats seemingly to no one and everyone. But while Cohan may have a problem with heights, she has an even bigger problem with not getting the job done. And after playing a farmer's daughter turned post-apocalyptic badass for over a decade, she knows a thing or two about overcoming fear.
Cohan could easily call her trusted doppelganger D.J. of her to perform her task for her, and certain angles would be used so that no one looking at the scene would be the wiser. But the crossing has now become a point of pride, and after taking a minute to calm down and then psych himself up, Cohan leaps over the railing and slides across the beam, cameras catching every second of the action. "
Looking back later on at the crossover, Cohan sees it as a defining moment. "My feet literally wouldn't move," she recalls of freezing in place. "I started crying, I was definitely hyperventilating."
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