Movie Trailers - Movies Blog "We had a long conversation before I got on the plane for the screen test," Lincoln told MTV News of his early discussions with Darabont. "Frank skyped me and we spoke for about an hour and a half about his ideas for the show and my ideas about Rick and where we sort of met [and our] influences and ideas." "Certainly, there were sequences in the first episode where it did feel like a modern western," he said. "He's not like a Clint Eastwood character. He's not the man with no name," said Lincoln of the lessons he learned from "High Moon" and the way Cooper's character differs from subsequent western heroes. "He has a family, responsibilities. He's an everyman. These are themes that I really responded to." "What AMC does so marvelously is they ask the audience to come to the show rather than the other way around," he explained. "'Breaking Bad' is a perfect example of this. It just says, 'Wait, come with us.' They don't flatter to deceive with jump-cutting and loud music. They trust the integrity of the story and the characters, and I think that's exactly what Frank did." You can catch The Walking Dead Halloween night on AMC.
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