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All hail King Ezekiel! We were introduced to a brand new community Sunday night on The Walking Dead, as Carol and Morgan were brought to a place called the Kingdom to recuperate.
We spoke to Khary Payton, who plays Ezekiel, about the two faces of the character, whether t is a romantic connection between Ezekiel and Carol, a fascinating theory he has about Ezekiel’s relationship to Negan, and how the Kingdom is different from the other communities.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What’s it like to finally get out t and be able to talk somewhat freely about playing Ezekiel?KHARY PAYTON: Honestly, it’s a relief because not only keeping a secret about Ezekiel, but even the secrets about this story in the first episode.
T are a few great scenes between Ezekiel and Carol, but let’s start with the first one w they both are putting on faces and acting.
Ezekiel says later that she had him fooled at first.
I’m familiar with this scene from the comic, but what you can’t pick up in the comic, but you do , is listening to Ezekiel’s voice as the tone and the language change as he shifts from post-apocalypse king to pre-apocalypse Ezekiel.
I said, “I’m finding it hard to slip into this,” and she looked at me and said, “You’re not feeling my pain.” It made all the difference to me, because in that moment, she really insults Ezekiel, and I was taking it as an insult, but what I realize is that she was fighting out of fear.
Can we expect a similar trajectory for Ezekiel and Carol, because t seems to be some chemistry t and we see him knocking on her door at the end?I think t’s obviously a spark and a connection between the two of them, but I think that the cool thing about relationships like this one is that it rides that fine line of – have you ever known a person and you’ve been attracted to them and you’ve known them for awhile and nothing ever happens until it does? That’s kind of the way I see this.