It’s completely understandable that actor Steven Yeun, who played the ever-popular ‘Glenn’ on the hit AMC series The Walking Dead would feel this way.

You may remember (really, how could you forget?), his character suffered a brutal and shocking death during the Season 7 premiere of the show (viewer discretion is advised)

 

 

Well now, in a new interview with Vanity Fair, Yeun says he feels like ‘Glenn’ never really got his fair shake.

He said, “I’ll be honest with you and put a full disclaimer here: I might not be objective, but I truly feel like people didn’t know what to do with Glenn. They liked him, they had no problems with him, and people enjoyed him. But they didn’t acknowledge the connection people had with the character until he was gone. I look at what happened and I think, That wasn’t any more gory than what we’ve done before, per se. No one got their face ripped in half! People got their guts smashed out and their heads caved in. But this one felt gratuitous because one, it kept going, and two, I think they took away someone that I didn’t realize I had made such a connection with until they took him away.”

Asked about the characters’ brutal death he added, “Internally, it was incredible,” he said. “Externally, it was tough sometimes because I never felt like he got his fair due. I never felt like he got it from an outward perception. I don’t say this as a knock on anything. He always had to be part of something else to legitimize himself. He was rarely alone. And when he was alone, it took several years to convince people to be on his own.”

Don’t worry Steven, we agree with you and we miss Glenn!

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