The Walking Dead - Interview with Norman Reedus

When zombies are chopped, maimed and decapitated on the TV drama “The Walking Dead,” there’s often a crossbow-wielding New Yorker behind the carnage.

Norman Reedus, 43 years old, plays Daryl Dixon, a character frequently at odds with the band of survivors that AMC’s hit show follows through a zombie apocalypse. His character is angry — someone who “just flipped over tables,” as Reedus sees it — and finds humans as untrustworthy as the zombies.

Speaking in Café Roma near his Chinatown apartment ahead of the show’s Sunday return, Reedus said his love of tough guy roles comes from his hard-as-nails mother, a former resident of Hell’s Kitchen who now teaches in Kurdistan.

“My mom taught high school in the Bronx,” he said. “She taught kindergarten in Harlem. So when this job came up in Kurdistan, she was like, ‘I can handle Kurdistan.’”

Source: Full article @ The Wall Street Journal