One storyline on The Walking Dead was completely cut out because of just how dark it was. Speaking on the “Talk Dead To Me” podcast, actor Lew Temple revealed that his character, former prisoner Axel, originally was going to be a serial killer. “I showed up with the idea that it was going to be serial killer and foreboding, and then, the day-of, got a note to switch that. ‘No, no, we’ve gotta lighten things up a little bit.
We’ve been pretty dark’,” he shared. Lew continued that there were some scripts that had Axel abducting and murdering Hershel Greene’s daughter Beth. “There were some episodes that were written where I do take Beth out into the woods and slaughter her.
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