The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln Doesn't Know What's Up With the "Heapsters" Either
Sunday's episode of The Walking Dead, "New Best Friends," introduced yet another new community and location into the mix -- a group of emotionless scavengers who live in a junkyard and have regressed to a primitive form of language in which conjunctions no longer exist.
[...] he was able to answer some of our other questions, like confirming that there's definitely a Mad Max influence on this episode thanks to production designer Grace Walker, whose history working on George Miller's postapocalyptic action franchise has been referenced on the show previously.
[...] a big shoutout to makeup special effects artist Gino Crognale, who took the abuse as Winslow the Pinhead Walker.
Was Mad Max a conscious influence on this episode? I know your production designer worked on Mad Max.
Gino [Crognale], who's one of the best makeup guys in the business, he's been working on the show since day one, he had to get into the suit, bless him, and he spent a full day getting beaten up and decapitated by me.
When we started filming the cheese-slice sequence from last week and then this extraordinary monster showing up on set, we just thought oh, wait a minute.
[...] the beautiful thing is that because Pollyanna McIntosh and the others landed the roles so well, instantly, they arrived on set and just owned it, I totally bought it.