‘The Walking Dead’ season 5: How Norman Reedus went undercover at Comic-Con
If there is one group of people out there who has a very hard job trying to stay under wraps while at San Diego Comic-Con, it is the cast of “The Walking Dead.” Just think about that for a minute. They are the stars of the most-popular show on TV, and of course they are going to be bombarded with every passing second by people curious about this or that.
But in the end, some of these people still want the experience that everyone else does of seeing the booths, the costumes, and the overall atmosphere … even if that means dressing up in enormous, elaborate costumes. This is still something that Norman Reedus was willing to do, and you can hear all about his experiences with Steven Yeun at a recent Comic-Con in a new Entertainment Weekly story:
“It’s funny, because they know what you’re wearing. So if you just put on a mask, you’ll get caught right away. Steven Yeun and I decided to go walk the floor in San Diego, and he went and got us these square, cardboard box heads to wear. And we walked around with those for like a minute, but you can’t breathe in those things, you could barely see, and someone recognized us right off the bat. So we ducked around to one of those vendors and we just bought what they had. And he went as Spider-Man, I went as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. We walked around for a little while, and it was cool. When we came out of there, we went to the hotel and it was so hot that we were just dying in those masks. So finally we pulled them up for a second to just catch some air and we just got bombarded with people. So we got stuck in front of a hotel trying to get out of there. But it was a lot of fun.”
You can find out some more details about the “Walking Dead” Comic-Con panel here, and rest assured that it will be just as big and as crazy as you would think. Hall H seats thousands of people, and even the lineup outside can be chaotic.
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