Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus reveals Daryl’s gay storyline that was planned but didn’t happen
The Fox show favourite has revealed a chat he had with writer Frank Darabont about a gay storyline that may make some fans happy
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The Walking Dead Norman Reedus has revealed he’d had a chat with writer Frank Darabont at an Oscar party where he shared plans for Daryl to be gay.
The actor, who plays Daryl, told the Mirror Online at The Walking Dead European Tour ahead of the show’s finale, he’d had a conversation at the party where it had been discussed but nothing ever came of it.
“There was a time on the show where Frank was going to have me be gay, but he won’t admit it,” he confessed. “If he admits it’s like he’ll kill you. He referred to it as ‘prison gay’, and I didn’t know what that meant.”
The pair were heading to David O’Russell’s party after he made 2010 boxing movie The Fighter.
“We were there and he said ‘what do you think if we made Daryl gay?’ and I was like let’s do it, let’s do it!”
“He was like ‘I knew I picked the right guy for this job!'”
The chat never came to anything, but Reedus says he was ‘up for it’. Since then fans have asked if Jesus [played by Tom Payne] and Daryl will end up in a relationship. Greg Nicotero emphatically said no to the idea recently at comic con, but that hasn’t stopped the questions.
“It never happened obviously, but I’m not against it and if it happened I would be down for it and I’d try to kick ass at it but I don’t know if that’s where we’re going with it,” he explained. “It hasn’t come up other than fans, and Tom [Payne] joking about it.”
Reedus went on to joke the rumours only started because Payne wanted it – and to get more Instagram followers but added “he’s a cute guy”.
Shippers of Carol and Daryl may not be so keen on the news, but never fear. Reedus said they “definitely share a special relationship.”
Asked why he thought nothing had really happened between them, he said: “Once you throw someone up against a tree in the moonlight it’s done forever. You know what I’m saying? Anyone can do that.
“It’s playing out exactly how it should.”
Take from that what you will. Are you Team Carol or Team Jesus?
Mirror.uk
