Steven Yeun Wants You To All Know It’s Going To Be Okay [Spoilers]


Steven Yeun appeared on Sunday night’s episode of Talking Dead to discuss the events of the Season 7, Episode 1 cliffhanger resolve.

For those of you DVR-ing this one, it goes without saying that you shouldn’t even be here right now. What is about to be discussed is for the eyeballs of fans who have already seen the episode.

(Sorry about the eyeball thing.)

Okay, with that out of the way, it’s time to discuss what happened with Steven Yeun in the shocking episode.

To start, you can all breathe a sigh of relief — for a few seconds anyway — because Steven Yeun, or his character of Glenn rather, was not killed in the Season 6 cliffhanger. That honor would go to Abraham.

The Walking Dead made a point of teasing you for a little bit longer, opening on Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and showing how he was coping with the slaughter he had just witnessed.

Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Rick have words with one another before Negan drags Rick to the RV and makes a cryptic comment about the group — “what’s left of them” — indicating that the real number of people who died could have been two or three or four or the entire group.

After about 15 or 20 minutes, viewers finally find out that it was Abraham who ate the bat. But as Negan has said in the promos, “I’m just getting started.”

And that’s when he teed off on Glenn, giving Steven Yeun the iconic moment from the comic books in a way that came across as even more shocking — because viewers thought their characters were “safe” at that point.

When Chris Hardwick later questioned Steven Yeun on his thoughts about the scene from the comics and whether it bothered him that he knew the scene was “out there,” Yeun had an unlikely response.

“I didn’t want anyone else to have that scene,” he confessed, calling it “such an iconic moment” from the comics that he didn’t want it going to anyone else but Glenn.

For any fans of The Walking Dead, who are still reeling from the manner in which Glenn died, this admission by Steven Yeun is sort of his way of saying it’s okay to be okay with it. After all, it’s what he wanted.

And judging by how much buzz the scene created ever since it first appeared in issue 100 of the comic book series, it’s clear to see just how right Yeun was for wanting to go out like that.

In fact, the scene had such power in the comics that executive producers Robert Kirkman (also the writer) and Scott Gimple made the wise choice of spreading the brutality across two characters and using the first death as a red herring of sorts for setting up the second.

Before signing off of Talking Dead, Steven Yeun had something very truthful to say about Glenn’s death — that he died like he lived, “thinking of others.”

So what is next for Steven Yeun now that he has an open schedule?

Watch out for him in the action movie Mayhem, which is currently in post-production and yes, it’s the starring role. Also, in 2017, he will join Jake Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins, Tilda Swinton, and Paul Dano in the action film Okja.

So what did you think of the premiere episode of The Walking Dead? And is it easier to take Glenn’s death knowing that Steven Yeun wanted it? Sound off in the comments section below.

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