Gisteren kon het Amerikaanse en download publiek kennis maken met David Morrissey aka The Governor in The Walking Dead TV serie. Nu heeft hij dit interview gegeven en spreek over zijn rol en het verschil tussen hem en hoe anders hij is dan The Governor uit de comics.

He is somebody who has an iron fist and a kid glove and he rules like that. If he needs to come down hard on people he will, but he's also somebody who's not averse to putting his arm around someone to get the best out of them as well. I think he's a good team person. Woodbury is everything to him when we meet him. It's a really wonderful place. It's a secure place. You can leave your door open, and the kids can go for a run outside, and that, in this world, is unheard of. Security is everything to him. So anybody who threatens that security will be really severely dealt with, and I think in this world, the danger from beyond the walls he's created is very real.

He differs massively. I think what happens in the comics is we get to meet the Governor later on in his genesis. He's fully formed, really. He's arrived at this sadistic person. My Governor isn't like that. We see him much earlier on. He's dealing with the problems of leadership, which are trying to keep people fed, and safe, and comfort them, provide things for his people. So he isn't the sadistic man that we see in the comic books. He's somebody who's ruthless and does terrible things, but he does them from a really important place. I think he can justify everything he does.