Eerder dit jaar verscheen er een spin off van de zwaar populaire TV serie The Walking Dead. Deze spin off speelde zich af in Los Angeles waar we als kijker het begin van de zombie uitbraak mee maken door de ogen van een familie wiens rustige leventje veranderd in een nachtmerrie. Nu is deze serie in de US (hier in Nederland verschijnt hij precies over een week) verkrijgbaar via de bekende digitale kanalen en fysieke media. Dus mag deze cast opdraven voor wat interviews en zo kwam Cliff Curtis (Smiley uit Trainings Day) aan bij de website Collider, waar hij sprak over onder anderen het tweede seizoen.

Collider: Congrats on such a successful first season and already receiving a pick-up for Season 2! Are you excited about getting even deeper into these characters and this story, with 15 episodes for the next season?

CLIFF CURTIS: I'm thoroughly excited about the second season. I think we'll have a really strong start. Season 1 started off very slow and was a slow burn while it revealed what it was all about. I'm really intrigued to see what happens, after how things were left for my character with the well-being of his family. We leave him after a terrible tragedy, and he's gotta somehow make good with that with his son (Lorenzo James Henrie) and reconnect with his girlfriend, Madison (Kim Dickens), and go on this crazy escapade that they're about to go on amongst the worst of circumstances.

How did you find the experience of making the first season and being a part of this world?

CURTIS: I had a great time. I really enjoyed going to work every day. We had fun. I was really impressed by how true to life they tried to make everything, and they achieved that beautifully. They created the traffic jam and the protests that turned into a riot, and that all felt real. And then, the thing that really topped it off was when the military turned up. I went, "Holy smokes, that feels so real! That's probably exactly what would happen with the military during a national disaster." The military would come in and lock everything down, you wouldn't have a clue what was happening, and you'd be completely at the whim of the military.