The Walking Dead - Interview with Madison Lintz

How old are you now?
MD: I'm 12.

So you are almost a teenager! Now Madi, I am going to ask you a little bit harder question... How did you figure out, how you were going to play Sophia?
MD: So when I first got to set I had read part of the first comic – until my Mom said I couldn’t read them anymore because they were a bit intense. So I had read the first comic and knew sort of what was going on, and then I sat down and talked to my Mom. We sat and we figured out what I was going to do and how I was going to play. Then when I got to set, and started shooting it just sort of came naturally.

So tell me more about why you didn’t read the comic?
MD: They are a little bit more intense and bad wordish [giggles].

So your Mom didn’t want you to read the comic not because she didn’t want you to be influenced by the comic version but because it was a little bit grown-up?
MD: It was just a bit too grown up for me!

Source: Full interview @ Culture Mob