Here's why this star 'Walking Dead' did not appear in Rick's latest episode

Coral! Where is the coral? Someone saw Coral?

During the nine seasons of "The Walking Dead", Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) has taken seriously the personal saga of Rick Grimes, which ended Sunday night. In his latest episodes, the character of Andrew Lincoln has repeatedly mentioned the name of his deceased son, evoking the better world he wanted to create.

But finally, our guy Coral was MIA in the Grime final. Happy paths, cowboy?

Before Rick drove a herd of zombies to their watery grave this week and (spoiler alert) making his own outing on a helicopter, Mr. Grimes suffered a series of hallucinations in which three "Walking Dead" characters seemed to him offer advice. They included Shane (Jon Bernthal), Hershel (Scott Wilson) and Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green). To the chagrin of the fans, Carl was not found. In addition, Lori Grimes (Sarah Wayne Callies), former ex-wife of Rick and terrible show conductor, was also absent.

What gives, the Internet wondered? The star of the show "Walking Dead" Angela Kang phoned the phone with HuffPost on Monday to answer people's question: why did not Carl show up?

"There is a reason," she says.

"We plunged into this idea of ​​the" third man phenomenon, "Kang said. "When people are close to death, they sometimes imagine seeing someone they knew or did not know, which led them to survive and keep them alive. We had these three particular characters [Shane, Hershel and Sasha] who are kind of filling his emotional need for the moment, but Rick's entire trip is looking for his family, and I felt, creatively, that if he saw Lori or Carl, he would have the feeling: "OK, I fulfilled my mission. I found them. I'm at home. I can go to bed and die now.

She continued, "He had to keep going for the family that is still there, and so have this kind of hustle and bustle," I have not found them yet. Where are they? Where are they? ", Bringing him back to the realization that his family has always been present – that the people he is fighting for now are still his family – that's what makes him move forward. So he can not find them, otherwise it would be too easy for him to give up. "

That's why Carl and Lori do not appear in this episode – although Lori voice makes a cameo for astute listeners.

In his latest episode, Rick hears several voices whispering "What's your injury?", A reminder of Morgan's (Lennie James) first words to Rick in the series. One of those voices was Lori Grimes herself.

She said, "What is your injury? "Before seeing Shane," Kang revealed. "Every" What is your injury? "Is somehow related to the hallucination that he has in the moment."

So we did not have Lori or Carl, but the episode had a jump in time that landed on a pre-teen Judith Grimes, played by actress Cailey Fleming. Fleming's most notable role outside "The Walking Dead" in turn remains as a young Rey in "Star Wars", a fact confirmed by Kang jokingly that helps explain the true lineage of the Jedi: Rick Grimes is Rey's father.

"Absolutely," laughs Kang. "Well, you know, Cailey came in and completely stunned us. She was amazing and I am a big fan of the Star Wars universe, as it is the case for [creative content officer Scott Gimple]like many people on our show. It was so very exciting for us to have little Rey on our show. "

Kang has answered a last question that haunts fans who are wondering about the dark and seemingly cell-free housing of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Yes, the Savior Chief has a place to go to the bathroom. This is what is called a bed pan.

"We do not see it here, but [the bed pan] will appear at a very important time later this season, "said Kang. "Or he might even have a bucket at this point, but we really wanted to hide this cell in such darkness that the corners are very dark."

"But we thought about that," she added.