The Walking Dead: Michael Cudlitz Says Watching Abraham's Death Was Not A Big Deal

The Walking Dead started its seventh season with one of the most brutal sequences of the entire series. As the story goes which everyone knows by now, Negan bashed Abraham's skull to carry out the cliffhanger provided by Season 6's finale, before turning his attention to Glenn.

While watching these moments play out was tough for fans of the AMC series, the actors involved don't seem to have had too hard of a time with it.

"The getting killed wasn't bad," Cudlitz said. "I was a fan of the show before I came onto the show. I had seen my favorite characters on the show get killed off. I had taken the hardline where, if you came on the show from the third season on and you were surprised when you were told you were gonna die, then you're a moron."

One might assume watching yourself get hit in the head with a baseball bat until every bit of it is gone might be a surreal, or even terrifying experience. However, for Cudlitz, it was an easier experience than anyone else who watched because of the process he went through to create it. "It's hard to separate all the technical stuff. There's a lot of prosthetics that are involved in that night," Cudlitz said. "Myself and Steven [Yeun], we would film one baseball bat hit and they would take us out and film another prosthetic piece."

He goes as far as flat out saying watching the unforgettable sequence "was not a big deal."

"For us, that moment is broken down into two nights of six hours each night of prosthetics. For us, it's a very technical thing. We're looking to see if that technically looks good."