***Note that the following interview contains spoilers for tonight’s premiere episode***
Tonight, the highly-anticipated anticipated episodic anthology series in the universe of The Walking Dead, called Tales of the Walking Dead, premiered on AMC and AMC+. In the premiere episode, Joe (Terry Crews), an end of the world prepper, has isolated himself except for chatting with others through the internet. When he ventures outside his safe haven, he meets Evie (Olivia Munn), who still sees the beauty in the world. The two clash but must work together if they are to survive the apocalypse.
On Thursday, Crews talked to SciFi Vision during a roundtable with the press about what surprised him most about working on the franchise, which is how hard it would be. “A tremendous amount of effort goes into every episode,” explained the actor. “We only had ten days to do a full movie. We went twelve hours every day, and, I mean, it was basically me and Olivia in every scene. Thank God we were playing the apocalypse, because it felt like it. We were so exhausted and so tired, but that's what you want to be. The way I look at it is if you’re playing in the Super Bowl, you want to get dirty, bloody, messed up. If you come out of the Super Bowl with a clean uniform, did you ever play? This is what I knew coming in, that this was going to be a challenge, because you're playing the end of the world and the zombie apocalypse, and I didn't want it to be easy, but I was shocked at how hard it would be.”
On Thursday, Crews talked to SciFi Vision during a roundtable with the press about what surprised him most about working on the franchise, which is how hard it would be. “A tremendous amount of effort goes into every episode,” explained the actor. “We only had ten days to do a full movie. We went twelve hours every day, and, I mean, it was basically me and Olivia in every scene. Thank God we were playing the apocalypse, because it felt like it. We were so exhausted and so tired, but that's what you want to be. The way I look at it is if you’re playing in the Super Bowl, you want to get dirty, bloody, messed up. If you come out of the Super Bowl with a clean uniform, did you ever play? This is what I knew coming in, that this was going to be a challenge, because you're playing the end of the world and the zombie apocalypse, and I didn't want it to be easy, but I was shocked at how hard it would be.”