![]() “You get the cushion of having some income that you can save for a rainy day. “I had the luxury of being on a TV show,” he said. He’s been doing a flurry of voiceover work - for “Voltron” and “Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters,” among others - but has been more selective about movie roles. With that thinking in mind, he passed on a lot of projects. ![]() I fed into it and I believed in it, too - until I got out.” That person was inherently trapped in whatever people thought he was. “And I’m like, ‘No, that’d be horrible.’ That was so long ago. “Sometimes people pitch to me, ‘Dude, wouldn’t it be so cool if you did a Glenn origin movie?’” he said. He has no interest in returning to play Glenn, even if the opportunity came up. “And you go, ‘Holy shit, I am in charge of my life. “You get out of that show, and you’re about to have a kid, and you’re an adult now,” he said. “You get swallowed up by whatever the thing that you’re a part of.” After the show, he became a father. “I left ‘Walking Dead’ and I kind of had an existential crisis - not because I longed to be back there, but because I was made to feel the loneliness of life, which is that decisions aren’t made for you,” he said. With more time to consider that period, Yeun is looking at the bigger picture. I never felt like he got it from an outward perception.” …they didn’t acknowledge the connection people had with the character until he was gone.” He added that being on the show “was tough because I never felt like he got his fair due. Yeun has wrestled publicly with the aftermath of “The Walking Dead,” telling Vulture in 2017 that “people didn’t know what to do with Glenn. It reached out of the screen and became an experience for me.” I was like, ‘This is so bizarre, it’s like a funeral.’ It was perfect, because it was like, this dude is dead. “It never rains in L.A., but it was raining that day, and they only had black umbrellas,” he said. He recalled the scene at the Hollywood Forever cemetery, where the Season 7 finale screened followed by a “Talking Dead” discussion with the cast. Oscars 2023: Best Visual Effects Predictions Nightmare Film Shoots: The Most Grueling Films Ever Made, from 'Deliverance' to 'Mad Max' to 'Avatar 2' When Liam Neeson Looks Back at His Career, He Has a Few (but Not Many) Regrets 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' Doesn't Have Some Crazy Director's Cut, Peyton Reed Promises Also, there’s something very beautiful about the end, turning the page and closing the book.” It was just the story, and you service the story. “In hindsight, it was just a natural end,” he said, recalling Glenn’s grisly death scene at the start of Season 7. ![]() Having appeared in two acclaimed festival films this year - the Cannes-winning “Burning” and Boots Riley’s Sundance sensation “Sorry to Bother You” - he said he had gone from acceptance to appreciation for the opportunity to leave “Walking Dead” for good. Nevertheless, he’s put the whirlwind experience of the AMC hit behind him, and said that fewer people stop him on the street to discuss it these days. “I’m still really close with all the co-stars, so I get the down-low on what’s going on.” “I don’t watch it as much,” he said in an interview in New York, where he was promoting his role in Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s “ Burning” at the New York Film Festival. But he’s not always up to speed on the show. “One doesn’t do this in a museum.Two years after his character Glenn Rhee died on “ The Walking Dead,” Steven Yeun still talks to his former co-stars. “These are antiques, and in many ways, objects d’art,” one Facebook poster explained. Indeed, Cardenas, who seemed to admire the cars, had violated a key tenet of the classic car community: You don’t touch another person’s ride without their permission, let alone jump all over it. ![]() KMAX and Cardenas did not immediately respond to emails from The Associated Press on Tuesday, and Cardenas was not pictured as among the “Good Day Sacramento” staff on the station’s website.Ĭardenas says on his personal website he’s worked in all forms of broadcast news, including as reporter, anchor and camera operator in a career of more than a dozen years at several TV and radio stations.īascom said none of the cars were damaged but that the show’s producers were outraged nonetheless. The car show’s producer, Stacey Castle Bascom, told the Sacramento Bee that KMAX officials told her Monday Cardenas had been fired. “Oh boy, I’m going to get in trouble,” Cardenas says. The result was a loud crashing sound and the voice of someone off camera yelling, “Get off.” He ended the segment with a grand finale of sorts, ignoring a “keep off” sign placed in front of a new Ford hybrid SUV and leaping onto its hood. Then, looking around furtively, he quickly added, “I don’t think anyone saw it.” ![]() Next up, he yanked open the door of a pink 1957 T-Bird, accidentally dinging its door against a green T-Bird parked next to it. ![]()
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