There’s lots to sit up for in The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis Season 2, coming Spring 2025 on AMC, and TV Insider spoke with the forged and The Strolling Lifeless Universe’s Chief Content material Officer Scott M. Gimple throughout New York Comedian Con 2024 for all of the shocking scoop.
Within the sophomore spherical, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is below the management of theatrical antagonist The Dama (Lisa Emery) after making a tempting take care of her within the Season 1 finale. The Negan who followers will see in Season 2 is rejoined along with his beloved barbed-wire bat, Lucille, and is unquestionably as much as no good. “Jeffrey wears it like a beat-up leather-based jacket,” says Gimple of Morgan’s capability to slide again into the unique Negan persona. “It’s thrilling to play the hits, no pun meant,” the exec provides with fun.
In the meantime, Maggie Rhee (Lauren Cohan) is making her method into Manhattan alongside do-gooder marshal Perlie Armstrong (Gaius Charles), who lastly will get readability on Maggie and Negan’s bloody historical past on this spherical. “After we completed Season 1, [Maggie and Armstrong] weren’t essentially the very best of associates, however this season [they’re] going to need to work collectively,” says Charles.
One factor is for certain: It sounds prefer it received’t be a contented reunion after they meet Negan once more. “It’s difficult,” confirms Cohan. “Maggie has lots of emotions that she could or might not be conscious of about the place Negan is, and what this favor he’s carried out [with The Dama] has value him. And I feel whether or not she’s keen to confess it, admitting what she could also be keen to do for [Negan] is coming at the price of the very tentative relationship she’s simply regained along with her son.”
Cohan, who has been part of The Strolling Lifeless Universe since 2011, additionally made her directing debut this season with the sixth episode. “I undoubtedly sought all the recommendation that I might,” Cohan admits. “However the confidence that I had from enjoying Maggie and from being on this world for a very long time gave me the boldness to know the locations I wanted assist with and wanted to depend on different folks for. It simply made for an expertise that was a lot better than the sum of its components.”
The drama will even welcome some new faces this time round, like Sons of Anarchy‘s Kim Coates, who portrays Bruegel, the chief of one in every of Manhattan’s most fearsome gangs (“Coates is larger than life, each offscreen and on,” teases Gimple), and Orange Is the New Black‘s Dascha Polanco, who performs Main Lucia Narvaez.
Take a look at the NYCC video interview above with Gimple, Cohan, and Charles above for extra intel on the upcoming installment.
The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis, Season 2 Premiere, Spring 2025, AMC and AMC+