Who was the first person cast? (It wasn’t leading man Andrew Lincoln!) Laurie Holden - who went on to play Andrea - auditioned to play … Lori Grimes?! Fan favorite Norman Reedus read to play the other Dixon brother, Merle, even though Michael Rooker had already been cast. I must have been on their radar with Frank and he wanted me to test. I got a friend to replace me in this movie and the next day, this script came through from AMC. They'd been trying to find Rick for a long time and I was just about to film a movie in England but had to pull out because my son was born a bit early and when my daughter was born, I made a vow not to do that ever again. Lennie James (Morgan) was cast before anybody else. I remember meeting Sarah Wayne Calliesthe day before we started filming and she looked at me and said, "Don't f- this one up!" She was cast after me. I thought, "I'm never going to get this job." … AMC offered the part to me soon after I touched down back in England. We looked around and realized that one of Jon's dogs had fallen asleep and was snoring in the middle of my take. I remember doing the big car scene with him and thinking, "That was a really great take and one of them, we really clicked." I kept hearing this noise and I thought it was the car engine. ![]() Jon Bernthal (Shane) had already been cast. ![]() We were throwing ourselves off a cliff with this thing, holding hands and hoping the parachute would open. I felt like a lab rat, I was completely over obsessing about it. I remember pacing around my hotel since I was flying in from England and had terrible jetlag before going to have a screen test with Frank Darabont.
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