‘The Walking Dead’: Behind-The-Scenes Video Of Shocking Death Released

Following Sunday night’s shocking episode of The Walking Dead, AMC has released a video taking fans behind-the-scenes of the major character’s graveyard death scene.

Spoilers for The Walking Dead Episode 9×08 follow. Major spoilers!

Sunday night’s Mid-Season Nine finale of The Walking Dead was the final outing for Paul “Jesus” Rovia as a character among the living in the present timeline — though he will appear in future episodes of the AMC series. In the video above, the work put into his final living moments as directed by Michael Satrazemis are revealed!

With Jesus being killed by the Whisperers, an intense new narrative complete with terrifying villains is introduced, while simultaneously satisfying the wishes of cast member Tom Payne.

“I had even said last season, I was like, ‘I mean, ’cause we’re having a war, you know, and people aren’t dying,’” Payne explained to Comicbook.com. “I was like, ‘There’s too many people on the show, you need to kill some people. Kill me, I don’t care, just kill some people.’ And then, lo and behold, they kill me!

“I was saying that knowing that I would be cool with it. All I care about is the story, and if the story is good, and they do it in the right way, then I don’t care. And if I help to tell that story, in a cool, surprising, and shocking way, then I’m down with that, and I think they really did that with the exit. So I’m super happy actually. I loved my beginning on the show, and I loved my ending on the show. The middle was meh, but the end was really cool and I’m really, really happy with that. So, yeah, I think it was kind of a mutual thing.”

Read Payne’s full exit interview with ComicBook.com right here!

The Walking Dead returns for the second half of Season Nine on February 10, 2019. Fear the Walking Dead will return for its fifth season later in 2019. For complete coverage and insider info all year long, follow @BrandonDavisBD on Twitter and watch ComicBook.com’s After The Dead each Sunday night following new episodes.