“The Walking Dead” cast has been thinned out over the last two weeks. Fans were shocked by (spoilers… for the entire article) Dale’s death last week and the most recent episode saw one of show’s most charismatic characters, Shane, fall by Rick’s hand.

The death of Shane was inevitable. Tensions have been building between Rick and Shane over the last few episodes and it was only a matter of time until that caused one of the characters to die. (And since Jon Berntha;, who plays Shane, recently signed on to star in ‘L.A. Noir,’ Shane was obviously the one who was going to die.)

Fans were shocked, however, to see Dale die last week. Series creator Robert Kirkman said that fans can expect a few more surprises during the chaotic season two finale which will see the cast change dramatically.

Kirkman told the New York Daily News:

“It’s exciting to me to think about someone who may have read 90 somewhat issues of ‘The Walking Dead,’ can watch one episode and go, ‘Oh my God, they killed Dale, I did not see that coming. That was totally shocking.’”
But Kirkman didn’t kill Dale purely for the shock value. Kirkman said:

“Carl would never have had the strength to pull the trigger and save his father from zombie Shane if he hadn’t had that ordeal with Dale and felt responsible for killing Dale because he wasn’t able to shoot that zombie.”

Kirkman didn’t give any hints to who would die during the finale, but did say that the episode would be chaos. At the end of the most recent episode, hundreds of zombies are bearing down on the farm which has been a safe haven for the cast for most of season two.

Kirkman said:

“The finale is probably our biggest episode so far. (It’s_ complete and utter chaos. The cast we begin the episode with is radically altered by the end of the episode.”

美國AMC電視臺王牌劇《行尸走肉》（The Walking Dead）第二季即將結(jié)束，而在最新播出的一集中，男主角之一、喬·博恩瑟（Jon Bernthal）扮演的沙恩（Shane）被打死，這也讓很多觀眾非常難過。但該劇主創(chuàng)羅伯特·柯克曼（Robert Kirkman）卻透露，其實早在拍攝第一季時，他們就已經(jīng)決定讓沙恩死去，只不過時間不夠才拖到了第二季。

“在邀請喬·博恩瑟出演沙恩以前，我們就已經(jīng)確定要讓這個角色死去?！绷_伯特·柯克曼在接受《好萊塢報道》采訪時說道：“如果第一季是13集而不是6集，沙恩的故事在第一季就能講完了，這也將與漫畫原著相類似，在原著的第一冊沙恩就已經(jīng)死了?！?/p>

柯克曼接著說道：“從坐進編劇室開始創(chuàng)作第二季以來，我們就知道沙恩將要在這一季中死去，所以我們就確立目標，向著這個方向工作，并在沙恩和瑞克（Rick）兩個角色間設(shè)立種種沖突和對抗。我覺得這（沙恩的死）給大多數(shù)觀眾帶來了驚喜?！?/p>

既然沙恩這個角色不存在了，那么喬·博恩瑟也將離開劇組，對此他本人也非常不舍：“最后的一個場景我們整整拍了一晚上，我無法想出一個更好的演員、一個更好的拍檔來完成這件事，在我的演藝生涯中能夠與安德魯·林肯（Andrew Lincoln，男主角瑞克的扮演者）合作，這絕對是個莫大的榮幸。他是我的兄長，是我演藝生涯中遇到的最好的朋友，所以最后的一幕我們拍的非常情緒化。”

作為戰(zhàn)友的瑞克之所以會殺死沙恩，是因為后者被僵尸咬傷感染了病毒，而對于自己扮演的這個僵尸角色，喬·博恩瑟本來還打算玩點兒花樣:“我試圖說服導演，讓我成為唯一一個會說話的僵尸，比如說：‘瑞—克’，但他沒同意?！?/p>