Though we know that the upcoming
companion series for AMC's hit drama, The Walking Dead, will follow a dysfunctional
family in the four to five weeks Rick Grimes was in a coma, we still don't know
much about the characters other than Kim Dickens' character is named Madison,
and she has two children, or that Cliff Curtis' character is called Travis and
he's divorced, and that both are a couple.
Entertainment Weekly recently caught
up with the series creator Robert Kirkman and managed to pry some additional
details about some of the key characters in the highly anticipated Fear The
Walking Dead, like Kim Dickens.
Madison is a
character whose husband died. And she’s been raising her kids on her own, so
she’s a character that has experienced a very abrupt change to her life that
she has had to adapt to. So there’s an inherent strength in this single mother
that makes her in some ways uniquely adapted to live in the zombie apocalypse.
And I think Kim has shown that if you want to have a strong female character, a
no-nonsense strong character —but with a lot of warmth, because its hard
sometimes to find an actress that can have those two things and can be this
leader and also have this warmth and this kindness to her—that’s something that
Kim is very capable of.
Kirman also spoke about Travis, and revealed
that though the whole zombie apocalypse didn't faze him from his responsibilities
to her, he might still have feeling towards his ex-wife Liza, played by
Elizabeth Rodriguez.
Travis is a character
that represents a sense of stability in Madison’s life, and so he’s really 100
percent on board. With the craziness of her life, he’s her rock.
… He’s definitely got a darkness to his past. … He is finding himself
torn between Liza, his ex-wife, and Madison.
As for the dynamic between Madison's
children, Nick played by Frank Dillane and Alicia played by Alycia Debnam Carey (seen in the
image with her boyfriend Matt played by Maestro Harrell), Kirkman says:
In the face of that,
we’ve got Nick—who is played by Frank Dillane—who is pretty much a parent’s
worst nightmare. He has flunked out of college, had a lot of trouble, got mixed
up in some bad elements, and is definitely the problem child. And it’s
exacerbated for him to be next to this perfect sister who seemingly doesn’t
have anything going on in her life that is negative. But that’s not really the
case, that’s just his perception. So you have these two siblings that are very
much at odds with each other.
Fear the Walking Dead
premieres this August on AMC.
Source - EW
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