‘The Walking Dead’: Actor Appears On ‘Talking Dead’ To Address Shocker

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“The Walking Dead” suffered another big loss on Sunday night.

A member of the gang since Season 2, “The Walking Dead’s” little songbird, Beth Greene (Emily Kinney), didn’t make it out of Grady Memorial alive. She was shot and killed by Dawn after she stabbed the Grady Memorial boss in the chest in an episode titled, “Coda.” On Sunday’s “Talking Dead,” Emily addressed leaving the show.

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“Shooting the episode was stressful, because, you know, you’re not just leaving the character, but, oh no,” Emily said, trailing off as she got caught up in her emotions while appearing on “Talking Dead.”

Emily told show host Chris Hardwick that she, “found out in [Episode] 7 that [Beth] would die in 8.” Since she had to keep the news from her loved ones, Emily said she is now dealing with Beth’s “TWD” exit.

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“It’s funny ’cause in some ways I feel like, even though I was done shooting a while ago, I feel like I’m going through it now in a certain way,” she said.

“It’s almost like you have relive the end again, and with everyone else. … Luckily, I was travelling so much, so I felt like I didn’t have to lie too much to my friends and family,” Emily said, adding, “I got really good at kind of being sneaky, and lying.”

Emily Kinney in ‘The Walking Dead’ (AMC)

Daryl sprang into action when Beth was killed, shooting her killer, Dawn. And it was Daryl who carried Beth’s body outside.

“Carrying Emily out of that hospital – that was rough,” Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl, said in taped footage from the set, which aired on “Talking Dead.” “Right before we shot that, I was sitting on an apple box or something and I was just (hangs head down) like this, just like crying and crying and crying.

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“That was a really crazy day because I really like Emily and I like that character and I don’t know, that was a tough one,” he added.

Executive Producer Robert Kirkman appeared on Sunday’s “Talking Dead” and he addressed the decision process that goes into killing off a major character.

“That’s always a really tough decision for us to make,” he said. “It’s literally like the worst thing we do in the writers’ room, ’cause this is a show where characters have to die to keep this world real. If people were just surviving non-stop, it wouldn’t really be [an] apocalyptic situation and a lot of really hard work goes into making that decision and figuring out when it’s a character’s time to go and it always has something to do with what comes out of that, what other characters are gonna be affected by that and when everything kind of falls into place, that’s kind of when it happens.”

“The Walking Dead” returns February 8, 2015 on AMC.

— Jolie Lash