‘The Walking Dead’ season 6, episode 9 reaction: Alexandra Breckenridge on key Jessie scene

It’s always difficult to see your character go on “The Walking Dead,” and we have to imagine that this is even more true in a midseason premiere. You know that there are so many more cool things to come, and you don’t get to be a part of it.

This, unfortunately, was the case for many characters this season, with Sam and Jessie being two of the more notable ones alongside Ron. As you would imagine doing these sequences were incredibly difficult on set, and Alexandra Breckenridge explains this further to The Hollywood Reporter:

“Filming the scene was really hard because I was playing this woman watching her young son being eaten. It was one of the most devastating things. When we started filming it, and one of the first few takes was Sam’s coverage and I was off-camera. It affected me so much that I had to walk away because I started feeling overwhelmed with emotion about what the reality of that must be like. I got too connected to the character. The amazing thing was all the cast came to that day-of filming just to be supportive. We shot until 6 a.m. and most of them stayed until 2 or 3 a.m. Lauren Cohan (Maggie), Christian Serratos (Rosita) and Alanna Masterson (Tara) stayed the whole time and had a bottle of champagne to open at the end. It was amazing.”

There can be light sometimes in even some pretty dark moments, and it’s therefore nice to read such evidence of the supportive relationship between several different members of the cast. Yet again, it’s a reminder that this is more than just a group of people working together, and you bond with them during this closed-off environment in the Atlanta area over the course of many hot days and weeks.

The good news for Breckenridge is that you may get a chance to see her again fairly soon in something; after all, we are currently in the thick of pilot season, and maybe she will pick something up.

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