Am I allowed to swear in this? Okay, because I almost did then.
Hi, I'm Tom Payne. I play Jesus on AMC's 'The Walking Dead' and this is Rolling
Stone's 'Fan Theory Exploder.'
That would be so fun. Like Jesus walking around with his knives and his ninja
skills. What is it? "Conquest for the Planet of The Walking
Dead?" Well, I guess that means that then the whole planet has been given up to
the walkers and we're not... we've given up on trying to make it human again
which I guess is pretty much where we are now so yeah that could work. Yeah I
like that idea.
Personally, I found it always... I found it a bit like
come on guys, like he's obviously helping us and he's putting himself at extreme
risk so give the guy a break. But then always say that's because I mean my
character doesn't actually really have much to do with that whole situation so
that's just me as Tom reading the scripts and watching the show but I can
totally see like Tara's girlfriend was killed by Dwight and he turned around
and said "I wasn't aiming... I wasn't aiming at her," which is kind of cold but it is
true. Like he didn't mean to kill her he was trying to kill Daryl! So Daryl does
have somewhat of a reason to be mad at him but I think he's paying a penance
now and, like I said, putting himself at extreme risk so I think they should cut
him some slack and I think I think that might be the way to the victory for
us, but we'll see.
Yeah... I mean that's obviously not gonna happen but I think
the plot armor is thick enough that they don't need the actual armor. But we'll
see I mean you never know on the show. I know lots of people are finding the
latest death tough and and completely unexpected but then I think that's how
things should go. I think the show should be completely unexpected and no
one is safe, including Rick and Daryl and I think with what's just happened I
think that rocks the boat a bit more and shows that no one has thick enough plot
armor. We'll see.
There's a lot of bloodthirsty fans that watch this show
who are just desperate for people to die as soon as they mess up or do something
that the audience don't feel is right. Eugene is basically just a coward and
he's all about self-preservation and we're in an interesting position with
him because I think fundamentally like he knows what Rick's group did for him
and how how they helped him out and how he survived for so long is in no small
debt to Rick and his group. I don't think Eugene is a lost character
He's certainly not being very helpful to our cause at this moment in time
So, "shippers" and "shipping" was an
entirely new concept to me before I got on this show and it was
really interesting situation because Norman actually warned me about it
before before my episodes aired and said you know this is gonna happen as I go
okay interesting is that yeah I get sent these pictures of me and people and we
all do from different people I was like, "hmm... okay, interesting." And then lo and
behold it happened and I get all of these pictures of Jesus with different
characters and quite a lot of Jesus's and Daryl pictures and I know it's a
very popular ship amongst the fans. I can I kind of... for me, it's just nice that the
fans are so invested in the characters and want the best for them and just want
them to be happy
The Whisperer War! I read all the
comic books and I'm super excited to see if we get to the
The Whisperers and if they come into the show because I actually think that Alpha, the
leader of The Whisperers, is the best baddie in the comic books. Worse than
Negan and worse than the Governor. She just... she has no... she doesn't give a fuck,
basically. Like she'll straight-up kill you. Yeah, I mean get to sort the Negan
thing out so we can get to The Whisperer War. Definitely.
So that's it for Rolling
Stone's "Fan Theory Exploder' and not much more to say apart from... Oh! there is one
thing that I can tell you. So oh okay...
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Oh, okay. Fine.