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‘Walking Dead’ director unpacks the ‘senselessness’ of Glenn’s brutal death 8 years later: ‘That was rough’

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“The Walking Dead.”The Post spoke to Greg Nicotero, the special makeup effects creator and executive producer for the beloved zombie apocalypse series.

He also directed the episode in which Glenn meets his gruesome fate and shared that Rhee’s death was amongst the hardest to accept. “The Walking Dead” lasted for 11 seasons on AMC from 2010-2022 and sparked several spinoffs that Nicotero has also worked on — so, that’s a lot of death and blood.

He provided The Post with behind-the-scenes photographs of how he made the gory kill scene look realistic with prosthetics and makeup — but, warning, these pics (keep scrolling) aren’t for the faint of heart.Admitting it’s “hard” to say goodbye to the characters and actors who played them, Nicotero — who was in charge of making the gruesome and always violent scenes come to life — told The Post, “It was always really very dramatic when we knew that any of them were going to die,” adding that the cast would come together for “death dinners,” which were designed as “little celebrations of each of the characters” when they met their haunting demise. “We would do a death dinner and half the time we would do them at my house and the cast would come over and we would have a really nice dinner,” he shared. “And then everybody would sort of talk about what they loved about working with that person.

So, it was a celebration.”When asked which actor he found particularly hard to let go, one person came to his mind.“I think Steven Yeun,” Nicotero responded.

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