Josh McDermitt Explains How The Walking Dead Is A Double-Edged Sword

The Walking Dead's cast and producers have become all too familiar with over-eager fans and cameramen who try as hard as they can to get new information about the show's plot. It's become even more intense after season six's huge cliffhanger involving Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Negan.

It's gotten to the point where people are enlisting the help of Drones to spy on the set, and to combat this the show has filmed extra death scenes just to keep the real death a mystery until season seven premieres later this year.

TMZ caught up with actor Josh McDermitt, who plays Eugene on the show, and asked him his take on the situation, and how the show has handled it.

"That they should go to the lengths that we've reportedly been going through? I mean, I can't discuss whether or not we've done that, um, but I mean look it's a show that people love, and people want to know, they're impatient, they don't want to wait until October, I get it. I get it. I mean I was a fan of the show before I started working on it so like I would want to know everything about it too, but at the end of the day, it makes our jobs harder, so that's you know. Does every show need to do that? No, because not every show is The Walking Dead."

He's right. Not every show is this big a juggernaut, and when you have such an impactful product, people are going to want to know everything about it. Still, he would rather have that than a show no one cares about.

"What if I went to your job and I was like "hey, uh let me take this project that you're working on and just, it's not even finished and just go tell everybody. Let me give it to your boss. You wouldn't want that. That's the other thing man, it's like, we could be on a show that people don't give a s*** about, so it's kind of a double edged sword. It's great, you know."

The Walking Dead returns for its seventh season later this year.