We’re all on tender hooks waiting for the new season of The Walking Dead after that cliffhanger. Looking at our watches, you’ve still got about four months or so to wait until that is all resolved, but here’s a little news bite revolving around the character of Negan (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan) show made a huge impression in the final episode of season six.
It seems that JDM wasn’t the only actor up for the role as Henry Rollins has revealed in a recent interview with Simon Thompson over on Forbes that he also audition for the role, which was apparently based on him.
“Since I didn’t get the part I can tell you this,” Rollins said. “I was up for the role of Negan because Charlie Adlard, who worked on the comic book, based that guy on me and so I was a shoo-in for an audition. The internet was wild with speculation because in the upcoming season, they were going to introduce the character. A woman that works in my office put my name and the character’s name into an internet search and all this speculation came up. I went for the audition, and there were five pages of really cool dialogue with all these curses and it was beautiful, but I didn’t get it.”
The musician and actor continued, “I later saw a photograph of the guy who did get it, and he looks almost exactly like the comic book rendering. The woman at my office watched the episode where he turns up. The dialogue that I auditioned with was in the show and she said, ‘It should have been you.’ Obviously it wasn’t or this conversation would be very different but that happened. I had to sign one of those documents where you can’t talk about it but now it’s over and done with… so yeah, I was up for that part. I get great auditions, I auditioned for stuff like Narcos too, but rarely does anything come my way. What usually comes my way is a no audition thing like The Last Heist or He Never Died that the film’s writer, Jason Krawczyk, wrote with me in mind.”
The Walking Dead returns later this year. For the full interview at Forbes, hit the link above.
