‘The Walking Dead’ star Lew Temple says ‘I feel cheated,’ talks about the prison and last day of filming
Lew Temple has admitted that he is very disappointed his Walking Dead character Axel has been killed off.
Axel became the last of the prisoners killed on the most recent Walking Dead episode, which saw the character fall victim to an attack by The Governor.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Temple explained that he was hoping the prisoners would be more integral to the future of the AMC series.
“I feel a little cheated for what we represent – the prison story. I feel like that didn’t earn us anything. But clearly it did,” the actor commented.
He added: “The prison has been a sanctuary, that is now not a sanctuary at all. It’s well worth defending, and in that defense, the prisoners are all gone.”
Temple also opened up about his final day of filming on The Walking Dead.
“I decided I was not going to show up morose. I did not want to drag my feet with a lot of sorrow or depression, because that would be playing all of the things that were someone else’s emotion on the front end of Axel’s day,” he recalled.
“I decided I was going to have a pep in my step and be very happy and give that whole scene a certain peace.”
The actor went on to say: “People often listen to music on their iPods before a big scene. Andrew Lincoln is a big advocate of this as is Norman Reedus and Lauren [Cohan] as well.
“So I had a certain soundtrack for the day, which was a lovely song by Citizen Cope called ‘Bullet and a Target’. It’s a really upbeat, happy kind of tune with really heavy lyrics. So it’s a happy and sad kind of thing. It just served me for the day and got me into a certain bounce.”
