TWD: In previous post-mortems, we talked about Hershel’s influence throughout the season, even after his death. Do you think this wraps up his chapter in the show? Will we see Scott Wilson again? RK: I always love having the potential to bring these characters back. I don’t think Hershel’s influence is done at the end of this season. I think his influence will be felt throughout the entire run of the show because he was that important of a character and I think that this season proves that. Maybe we’ll see him again in another flashback or dream sequence. Although, I think that Scott Wilson might have cut that hair. Q:赫谢尔的演员还会不会再回归? A:我总是很喜欢让一些演员回归,赫谢尔对所有人的影响力是巨大的,也没有结束。可能以后还会在闪回或梦境中看到他。虽然我觉得Scott头发已经剪了
TWD: When did those flashback scenes get filmed? RK: They were filmed when we were filming this finale, we didn’t shoot that out of order or anything. We brought Scott Wilson back and we had to tell him not to alter his appearance in any way after his death scene, which is actually a good thing because then he was able to do public appearances and be seen out in public while the beginning of Season 4 was airing and not look like he wasn’t on the show anymore. It didn’t spoil anything by people seeing him at the grocery store and taking pictures or anything. Q:这些闪回戏份是啥时候拍的? A:是在拍最终集的时候拍的。不是一开始就拍好的,这样他还可以参加一些公开活动,还有被目击到拍摄。所以这样子人们就不知道他其实季中就死了。。
TWD: What about the prison set? Did you have to rebuild that? RK: If you go back and look at those scenes, we had to shoot around the parts of the prison that were destroyed, so there were key pieces of the set that were left intact after we filmed the mid-season finale to we could shoot this at the end of the season. So we knew this stuff was coming up and we were able to plan for it. Q:那监狱部分的故事还是在监狱拍的?你们重新建起来了? A:你仔细看闪回部分,都是在监狱附近拍的 这些还没拆掉(之前就想好要拍的)我们都计划好的
TWD: This episode we saw the controversial attempted-rape story line from the comic books. Was that hard to get approval on? RK: There was definitely a lot of discussion. That’s a scene that was really hard for me to do in the comics, and in the actual script for that scene in the comics it says, “Don’t worry Charlie, they’re not actually going to do it, it’s going to be stopped.” Scott [Gimple] and myself and all of the producers really had to sell it to AMC just to get them on board with what it was that we were trying to do, and thankfully they were. It’s a harsh world, and I think AMC has really invested themselves in a realistic portrayal of these characters and what they would be doing in this world, and that was a part of it. So while it is definitely a difficult thing to portray, I think it’s worth it for the integrity of the show and the realism of the show to sink to these levels and do these things and do them justice. Q:谈谈有关卡尔差点被OOXX的戏吧 A:很有争议,我在漫画里就觉得要把它展现出来是很艰难的。在剧本里直接写的“别担心,查理,这不会发生的,会被阻止的。”我们得游说AMC,有关我们的本意。 但是我们为了保证剧集的质量 以及描写这个现实的残酷还是把它完成了。
TWD: And one of the results of that is Rick ripping someone’s throat out with his teeth… how did that discussion go? RK: [Laughs] Rick goes a little zombie. That’s a pinnacle moment in the comic book series, seeing Rick get to that level where he’s so savage and so brutal that he is essentially behaving like a zombie. When we started off this season, Scott Gimple always knew that we were building toward that moment and that that was going to be the climax of this season. So that was another one where we definitely had to go over how we were shooting that, what we were going to see and what was implied. Having Michelle MacLaren to direct that episode really helped us because she’s such a visionary director and has done so many amazing episodes on Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones and really is an all-star director, so having her on board for this episode really helped us pull that scene off and do it right. Q:瑞克咬人的那场戏呢? A:瑞克几乎有点僵尸化了,这场戏也是全剧的高潮。也是讨论很久该怎么拍摄。值得一提的是拍摄的女导演Michelle MacLaren非常出色,这一集被她拍的很好。
TWD: Were there any standards and practices concerns in terms of having that done to a human instead of a zombie? RK: Sure, there are more restrictions for human-on-human violence rather than human-on-zombie, but how it works is we usually run through things meticulously before we shoot them, and it’s literally things like, “You can show a tooth going into human flesh for certain amount of centimeters for a certain number of seconds and that’s okay.” So we go into it knowing exactly where the edges of the envelope are and how close we can push them. We know what the parameters are and we do skirt the edges of that as much as possible. Q:拍这场戏,是把真人的脖子咬开,而不是僵尸,是不是拍摄上有所不同? A:是的,有更多的限制。不过我们都会仔细思考过,甚至都考虑到比如“牙齿咬到人肉几厘米,出现在镜头内几秒”之类的我们都仔细想过。
TWD: There’s a strange memorial room at Terminus. What’s that all about? RK: There’s a big story to Terminus. There’s a very long and involved way that Terminus came about, and that memorial is a big part of it. It’s what these people have lived through and what’s happened to them and what’s built them into what they are, which will be revealed in Season 5. There are a lot of hints when you watch this episode closely of what’s to come in Season 5, so I would definitely urge everyone to watch this episode multiple times and try to pick out the things we’re teasing because there’s a lot to find. Q:终点站的那个用来纪念的房间是怎么回事? A:跟终点站的故事有关。解释了终点站那些人是怎么变成现在这样的。第五季会一一讲述,不过这一集里我们已经埋下很多的伏笔,我建议大家把这一集多看几遍,可以找出很多东西。
TWD: Will comic book fans have a hand up on that? RK: You’ll definitely have a better sense of where we’re going if you’re a diehard comic book fan because there are always certain hints that pop out to you more if you’ve read the comics, but as the comic fans know there’s never any kind of clear indication of how we’re going to adapt a story. So even if we are moving into a storyline that’s very recognizable from the comics, we could be doing it in a completely different way. Q:漫画迷是不是更能预知之后的情节 A:确实看过漫画的人会知道得多一些,可以一下子认出很多的提示。但是我们改编的时候也可能会做很大的改动。
TWD: And where’s Beth!? RK: I don’t know! She got taken, she’s not back yet… I can say that Terminus has a lot of signs out there and it’s certainly possible that all kinds of different people out there could make their way to Terminus in some way, so maybe Beth shows up to Terminus in Season 5… maybe not. I think I can say that Beth’s story is not over. We’ll see her again, maybe in Season 5, maybe not. TWD:贝丝在哪里? RK:我不知道!她被抓走了,还没有回来。终点站有很多迹象表明各种人用某种方法渠道了终点站。所以可能第五季里,贝丝会出现在终点站。。也可能不会。我只能说贝丝的故事没有结束。我们会再见到她的,也许在第五季里,也许不是。