Can love finally be in the air for The Walking Dead‘s Carol and Daryl?
“I think he would be happy (for him) to find love. It’s a tough world,” Melissa McBride59, special to Us Weekly when asked how her character, Carol Peletier, would feel when she saw her friend Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) finally found love on the PaleyFest NY red carpet for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol.
It looks like Daryl can finally find happiness with someone when he and Isabelle (Clemence Poesy) kissed in episode two, but his death kills any hope that Daryl’s love life will start thriving.
McBride and Reedus, 55, have both played Carol and Daryl since the first season of AMC’s flagship show, which aired in 2010. And there are layers to Carol and Daryl’s complicated relationship. They have a loyal and almost brotherly relationship. But there are flirtatious moments between the characters over the years – Carol jokingly asked Daryl to “shut up” in season 3 – causing fans to yearn for them to fall into the popular friend-to-lover trope.
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When the original series ends in 2022, McBride is set to star opposite Reedus in the spin-off’s first season, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon but withdrew due to location logistics.
McBride, however, shocked fans with his return to the franchise in the finale of Daryl Dixon season 1. He then entered into a series regular in the second season with the title, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol.
With Carol and Daryl reunited in the fourth episode, we cannot rule out the possibility of love for them.
“I just thought about what I love the most: telling Carol’s story,” McBride said us what he’s excited about going back to The Walking Dead universe “Finding new elements in his life and in this journey of exploration of the world, that I can tell a new story. That’s fun. And also, working with Norman.
Although McBride has played Carol for more than a decade, she believes the writing “remains fresh,” and she still wants to explore Carol’s journey.
“(Carol) has never felt guilty, all of that. When there’s a time? You’re always trying to survive and save your life. And then when it’s quiet. She’s in a safe place like the Commonwealth, where she gets a day job and a desk job. . It was a little quiet,” McBride said. “He misses his friend and then it causes some things. It only makes sense that we explore things that we don’t have inside ourselves.
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And as another season in The Walking Dead Universe airs, the series continues to do what it does best: show lots of blood, gore and other brutal deaths. After working on the show for more than a decade, McBride remembers what she enjoyed most was having lunch with the “Walkers” in full costume and prosthetics during season 3.
“We would share the lunchroom with the Walkers, and they would open holes to get food in the walker’s masks,” McBride said. us. “Then you see an actor underneath it, but it’s still like, ‘Oh, that’s too bad!'”
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol airs on AMC and AMC+ Sundays at 9pm ET.
