Walking Dead Rick to Janus but Then Again if They Stick Their Heads Out

[WARNING: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for AMC'due south The Walking Dead: World Beyond Flavour 2 Episode half dozen, "Who Are You?"]

She'southward back!

Subsequently soaring away with a gravely injured Rick (Andrew Lincoln) on a helicopter to destinations unknown, ii seasons later, Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) has returned to the TWD-verse in Globe Beyond — with a new position in CRM, a new friend, a new last proper noun and a new haircut.

We chatted with McIntosh about how she brought her grapheme to a new corner of the Walking Expressionless world, what's up with that hairstyle, and — most chiefly — whether that "very valuable" something she says she gave CRM was a sure Mr. Grimes.

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How, and when, did you find out Jadis was making a comeback on World Beyond?

Pollyanna McIntosh: That's a good question! [Chief Content Officer] Scott [Gimple] and I were speaking, and it came up only about a week and a half before I headed down to Richmond. It was a pretty close thing because I was supposed to be in Republic of ireland shooting Vikings: Valhalla and our schedule got delayed. Scott heard this and went, "Hang on a infinitesimal. Mayhap we tin can make this piece of work." And so, it was really great. Groovy timing.

That's interesting because, with the way things are planned in this universe, I figured that had been baked in perhaps even from the beginning of Earth Beyond. But information technology doesn't audio that way.

Well, they definitely wanted to go into the CRM world that we're exploring more than and more. I think information technology was just one of those kismets, that information technology could happen in this identify. What luck and joy for me!

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I have to enquire nearly the haircut. When nosotros saw Jadis concluding on The Walking Expressionless, she'd grown information technology out — at present she has what fans refer to as the "basin cut." What made her cutting it like this again?

Well, as she says, information technology's been vi years—goodness knows she may take had a few wonderfully awful haircuts during that fourth dimension. But Jadis is very practical, and she is a really good manipulator. I think she oft does things that permit people know to exist on the back foot, a little bit. To be just a footling uncomfortable around her. I call up sporting a look like that is one of the ways to do that, you know? I idea it would exist fun for the fans [for Jadis] to make an entrance with those very short bangs; shaving the lesser half was a way to make it more farthermost, and also to give a lilliputian nod to Joan of Arc, who Jadis might feel she was—not doing God's work, merely trying to save the world.

On The Walking Dead, Anne had precious few friends — was it prissy to play her esprit with Huck (Annet Mahendru) in this episode?

Yeah! It was really fun. I loved playing connective scenes. They have this history, and that was great fun to piece of work with. We actually enjoyed finding those moments to connect that show we accept this real history together. It's the in one case I get to accept my gloves off, as well. [laughs] We have a little rum together. There was a lot of fun in there—they almost float around things, as former friends do. They pick up on each other's jokes and vibes, and I like that a lot.

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To what extent was Jadis' offer to Huck at the end of the episode genuine? Is she really trying to help her, or is she trying to dig up some dirt?

She's e'er doing her job, yous know? She's genuinely thinking of herself. But she as well genuinely loves Huck and wants her to be well. She knows her chapters and wants that to be used in the right style, for the right cause, and and so that Huck can accept a future as well. Jadis wants what's all-time, and certainly, in her mind, Huck being on the right side is what's best. Just we besides know her to be somebody who is a great manipulator, so she tin can flip on a dime as to what's required.

That leads nicely into one of my other questions — Jadis says her purpose is to create a "new era" on the planet. What does that expect similar, in her head?

We remember Jadis equally being an artist and going her ain style while holding a position of leadership. Those things are the same for her at present. But this is a time when the CRM really seems like the only hope, and the only lite in the globe, as she sees it—where we could actually get back to humanity with culture, with art, with the same freedoms we used to have. She has seen what they do, and she is very impressed past information technology. And so that is the new era as she sees information technology; i in which nosotros tin have truthful civilization once more.

The subject of names came upward in that scene besides. I noticed that in the episode and the preview for it, Jadis introduces herself equally Jadis "Stokes," which is Gabriel's (Seth Gilliam) last name. Why did she exercise that?

Information technology was really fun when she and Gabriel were together on The Walking Dead only she was trying to discover a way out, and she was trying to involve him and include him, and she just couldn't become him to go with her. In the end, she could've actually used him, but she didn't. I e'er thought there was love and respect there. But I don't think information technology's done without a sense of irony, though. Jadis is non to exist a "wifey," you lot know? She also doesn't want to reveal much of herself, and then why not have somebody else'south name? Remember that brief, cursory love. [laughs]

How would she experience about him and Rosita (Christan Serratos), then?

She's all for people getting what they need, so I think she'd be down with it. But she'd probably have something witty to say about it.

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In this episode, the language Jadis and her people used comes up. That was always a bit polarizing to fans—some were okay with it, some weren't. Were you happy information technology was explained?

That was e'er something I felt was the reason for her to create that language. For me, it was on three levels; to make others uncomfortable with her, and then that she had the upper mitt; simply also to bond the customs and give a sense of "the outsiders" and "u.s.a.,"; and lastly for speed, because the Scavengers didn't like to waste material anything. Aye, information technology was kind of cool for me. I made that stuff upwardly myself, and information technology made sense—that'due south what you practice with a character, y'all endeavour to make sense of everything so it all feels in the body—and and then they wrote these wonderful lines. It was like, "Yeah, I thought and then! Okay, cool." I thought that was fun for the fans, too, because I practise get asked that question a lot. They're like, "How could they forget to speak after such a short fourth dimension?" I'm like, "No, no, no, that'due south not what nosotros're saying."

Jadis says she had given CRM something "very valuable." Was that a Rick reference?

I call up nosotros can assume it is, yep. It'due south safe to presume so. It is difficult to talk near Rick, as Jadis, and non put a flake of centre in there. She did have a truthful connexion and relationship with him. I quite liked that he was valuable, at least! She did at least say that. That was sort of hint number one; yous'll take to continue watching for more than info!

The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Sundays, ten/9c, AMC

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