The Walking Dead: Steven Yeun Discusses Glenn's Fate

10/24/2016 11:02 am EDT

Major spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere follow.

The Walking Dead Season 7 premiere delivered on all of its promises to be brutal and spectacular. In fact, the episode shocked fans by tossing in an extra death than the originally promised farewell tied to the Season 6 cliffhanger mystery.

The first to go was Abraham Ford. The soldier stayed true to himself until the end, telling Negan, "Suck my nuts!" in his final moments. However, the taunting of his ex-girlfriend didn't sit well with Daryl which prompted a swift punch in the face landing on the new villain. It all spelt the end for Glenn as punishment for Daryl's actions.

Steven Yeun, one of very few remaining actors who had been with the show since the very beginning, weighed in on Glenn's death during the Talking Dead special which followed The Walking Dead on Sunday night.

"Personally for me, I think the death in the comic, Robert wrote in such a messed up but at the same time incredible way to take something away — to make a story as impactful as it is," Yeun said. "When you read that comic, you don't want that moment to go to anyone else."

However, the farewell to The Walking Dead is bittersweet for Yeun. While he is saying goodbye to a family, the actor can finally open up about what's next for him after so many months of secrecy.

"Going into it, there was excitement in the sense of when you know something someone else doesn't know, you're like, 'Yeah, I know stuff. It's cool.' Then after a while you're like, 'I don't like knowing this by myself,'" Yeun said. "And then you just dive into a hole after a while because you're not allowed to say anything. But I'm very lucky to have my castmates and my friends here to bounce my feelings off of or however I'm processing things…. It was fun to lie to people for a minute. But after a while you just can't lie anymore so I just stopped talking to people."

In the end, Yeun is grateful for his time with the show. Talking Dead host Chris Hardwick specifically asked Yeun to share a favorite memory from his over six years with the show. He couldn't narrow it down to just one.

"I've had so many wonderful experiences with everybody," he said. "I think what's cool is that I didn't watch this episode until about a week before. And going in, you're like 'Yeah, I know what happens. I've seen it. I lived it. I did. It's going to do what it's going to do.' But watching it you realize the way [Scott M. Gimple] constructed this episode, the way [Greg Nicotero] directed this episode, the way that every single person crushed it. Every single person crushed it. You look at the whole of that and you realize all of those memories just imbue every look part of that episode. You get that whole full rush of like seven seasons of watching this show and it was really gnarly to see that. And so for me, the lasting memory is that, this whole experience."

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