The zombies took over the stage at Comic-Con this past weekend in San Diego, California. During the convention, AMC premiered the awaited trailer for the sixth season of “The Walking Dead” and presented the first preview for the show’s spin-off “Fear The Walking Dead.”
During the event, the producers revealed that “The Walking Dead” Season 6 and “Fear The Walking Dead” Season 1 will air almost at the same time in more than 100 countries. This will be done to please their fans that eagerly wait for new episodes to come out between seasons, and holiday breaks.
The cast of “Fear The Walking Dead” showed up after the trailer was shown to the present audience members, and they talked a little bit about their characters and plot lines they follow in the show.
Elizabeth Rodríguez, better known for her role as Aleida Diaz in “Orange Is The New Black,” plays Liza in the show and during the panel she talked about her role, and mentioned that her character wasn’t meant to be a Latina:
“I can tell you that, she is Travis’ ex-wife, and the mother of Chris, played by Lorenzo. They were married for about 12 years and they’ve been separated, well divorced for (she gets interrupted by an actor who says: 13 years) …Oh sorry, I forget these things. We’ve been divorced for 3, separated for 3 year, and she is very protective of Chris, and she is going to nursing school, which plays a very important role in the outbreak. And she sort of had to put her life on hold and her dreams, and so now she is sort of burning the candle on both ends, and so she sort of doesn’t take any B.S., and I think she is really nurturing, and kind of comes into this world, into the Clark house, so there’s 2 adult women and 3 children, and my character wasn’t supposed to be Latina. That’s really important stuff. So, that’s exciting. Especially because there is a whole other story line that is that, and so I think that was really exciting for me, that I’m just playing…a woman.”
Also representing the Latino community is singer-songwriter Rubén Blades, who is no stranger to the sci-fi genre and gives life to Daniel Salazar, a barber that wanted to have a better living next to his wife Griselda (Patricia Reyes Spíndola) and daughter Ofelia (Mercedes Mason). Blades, who happened to have a lot of fans in the crowd, also shared details about his character and his over-all experience shooting the show:
“It was a…it was a wond…I always say that the first motivation for an actor to work is unemployment, and this role I felt good about accepting it because it is a very complex character. Daniel Salazar is a very complex character. And that…Also joined to the fact that I really like science fiction, were two deciding factors. I meant this is a really interesting character. He is a barber. He is a man that has come from a different environment, different society to start a life elsewhere with his family, daughter, and Patricia Reyes Spíndola, who is playing my wife is an excellent actress, Mexican actress. And ah, events occur that force him to revisit a past that he was trying to get away from. So, it is a really interesting role, and it’s a great group of people. And I’m a musician basically, and I’ve been very lucky that I’ve been able to work in film and television. In the past I did ‘Depredador 2’ with Danny Glover and then I did an episode of ‘The X-Files,’ which I really wanted to do and I hunted (haunted) Chris Carter until he gave me a role and I said ‘Please, don’t kill me and he did’ (…) So it’s a great opportunity, I am very, very grateful for the opportunity and to be able to work with this great group of people. Really, very, very lucky, I feel.”
Watch the rest of the cast talk about their characters and their experience, and don't miss "Fear The Walking Dead" on AMC August 23.
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