‘The Walkg Dead’s’ Merrt Wever on #BuryYourGays and Denise’s Last Victory

Contents:

• MERRT WEVER MARRIED STAT, GAY, MOVI & TV SHOWS, FACTS
• IS MERRT WEVER GAY?
• IS MERRT WEVER MARRIED? HER BOYIEND, & GAY RUMORS
• MERRT WEVER MARRIED, BOYIEND, GAY, WALKG DEAD, WEIGHT LOSS, EMMY AWARDS
• ‘THE WALKG DEAD’S’ MERRT WEVER ON #BURYYOURGAYS AND DENISE’S LAST VICTORYHEROISMTHE EMMY-WNG ACTRS OPENS UP ABOUT DENISE’S SHOCKG EPISO AND WHAT MEANS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE SHOW. [WARNG: MAJOR SPOILERS] MELISSA LEONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 6:46PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 20, 2016 10:00PM EDT GENE PAGE/AMCTHOUGH ENDS WH ATH, NFN AND THE APOLYPSE EQUIVALENT OF A TEXT MSAGE BREAK UP (WHAT THE HELL, CAROL?), SUNDAY’S EPISO OF THE WALKG DEAD, “TWICE AS FAR,” STARTS OUT AS A REMPTN STORY FOR TWO SELF-DOUBTG UNRDOGS: EUGENE AND DENISE, WHO FALLY NONT THEIR FEARS AND FIGHT TO SURVIVE—AT LEAST, UNTIL ONE OF THEM DON’T.THE GREEN-FLETCHED ARROW THAT PIERCED DENISE THROUGH THE BACK OF HER SKULL STRAIGHT THROUGH TO HER EYE WAS A HORRIFILLY UNEXPECTED BLOW. NOT ONLY BEE THE LOVE-STCK PSYCHOLOGIST TURNED RELUCTANT DOCTOR WAS THE MIDDLE OF A ROG MOTIVATNAL SPEECH ABOUT REGRET AND MISSED OPPORTUNI, BUT ALSO BEE, AS FAR AS IC BOOK REARS KNEW, THAT ARROW OM DARYL’S OLD CROSSBOW ONCE KILLED SOMEONE ELSE. (SPOILERS AHEAD FOR WALKG DEAD ISSUE 98.) WHAT THIS MORBID SWCHEROO OM ABRAHAM TO DENISE MEANS FOR THE SHOW’S OTHER IMMENT, INIC MURR AT THE HANDS OF THE SAVRS’ LEAR NEGAN IS UNCLEAR.DENISE’S STORY, MEANWHILE, IS LEFT UNFISHED. SHORTLY BEFORE HER ATH—MA ALL THE MORE STOMACH-TURNG BY THOSE FEW WORDS SHE SLURS AFTER IMPACT—DENISE HAD EXPRSED REGRET AT BEG TOO AAID TO GO WH HER GIRLIEND TARA ON A TWO WEEK-LONG HUNT FOR SUPPLI. SHE REGRETTED NEVER TELLG TARA “I LOVE YOU” RETURN. AND, SPE HER REPEATED SCREW-UPS, SHE HAD JT BEGUN TO BUILD NFINCE HERSELF AS A DOCTOR AND VALUABLE MEMBER OF THE ALEXANDRIAN MUNY.STILL, MERRT WEVER, THE EMMY-WNER WHO PLAYS DENISE (BT KNOWN FOR HER WORK ON NURSE JACKIE AND HER CHARMGLY BRIEF 2013 EMMYS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: “THANKS SO MUCH. I GOTTA GO. BYE.”), SAYS THERE IS A SILVER LG DENISE’S FAL MOMENTS: THAT SODA SHE FALLY FOUND FOR TARA. “IT’S A BIG W WHEN SHE FDS SODA FOR TARA. I THK SHE WANTS TO FEEL RPECTED BY ROSA AND DARYL FOR ,” WEVER SAYS. “AND THEY DON’T. AND SHE’S TIRED OF TRYG AND TRYG TO PROVE HERSELF.”DENISE’S FAL WORDS ARE ANGRY, BERATG HER PANNS FOR NOT TAKG MORE CHANC. BUT THE WAY WEVER SE , THERE’S TRIUMPH DENISE’S FAL MOMENTS TOO, A FEELG THAT THE BOOKWORM WHO HAD TO DROP OUT OF MED SCHOOL DUE TO CHRONIC PANIC ATTACKS, THE ONE WHO WAS FORCED TO THE ROLE OF DOCTOR AND HATED THE PRSURE, FALLY FELT ACPLISHED. “SHE GETS TO EXPERIENCE FEELG LIKE SHE DID ,” WEVER SAYS. “LIKE, SHE GOT . SHE WAS BRAVE. SHE WAS REWARD BY GETTG HER GIRLIEND’S SODA AND SHE GOT TO EXPERIENCE FEELG PABLE—EVEN IF WAS ONLY FOR 30 SENDS.”THE DAILY BEAST TALKED TO WEVER ABOUT DENISE’S PREMATURE MISE, WHY SHE WON’T BE WATCHG THE SHOW ANYMORE, AND WHETHER DENISE'S ATH FEEDS TO TV'S PERNIC "BURY YOUR GAYS" TROPE, AN ISSUE RAISED AGA RECENTLY AFTER A LBIAN CHARACTER ON THE CW'S THE 100 WAS SUDNLY KILLED OFF.DENISE’S ATH IS SO BTAL AND PLETELY OUT OF THE BLUE. DID YOU KNOW GOG THAT THIS WAS THE RDS FOR HER?I KNEW WAS G. [LGHS.] I KNEW THAT STT ONLY WANTED [DENISE] FOR ONE SEASON SO I KNEW THAT [MY TIME ON THE SHOW] WOULD BE G TO AN END. AND MOST LIKELY THAT END WOULD BE, I ASSUMED, A ATH, ‘E OF THE NATURE OF THE SHOW. THEN I FOUND OUT HOW WAS GONNA GO DOWN MAYBE A UPLE OF WEEKS BEFORE WE SHOT . WERE YOU SURPRISED THAT THEY’D CHOSEN DENISE TO REPLACE ABRAHAM THIS FAMO ATH OM THE ICS?YEAH, I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT ALL THAT UNTIL PEOPLE TOLD ME. I’M SO NAIVE—I DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE THAT DENISE IS THE IC BOOK AND THAT THEY FOLLOWED THE BOOKS AND BROUGHT THE CHARACTERS LIKE THAT. SO I DIDN’T KNOW THAT I WAS PLAYG SOMEONE WHO WASN’T JT ON THE SHOW UNTIL I WAS HAIR AND MAKP AND THEY SHOWED ME A PICTURE OF HER.DID YOU GO BACK AND READ ANYTHG ABOUT HER?I DIDN’T BEE HADN’T SEEMED LIKE STT [GIMPLE, THE WALKG DEAD EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND SHOWNNER] THOUGHT THAT WAS THE WAY TO GO. I GOT THE IMPRSN THAT THEY WEREN’T GOG TO BE FOLLOWG TO A T, SO I HAD A FEELG MIGHT NOT BE AS EFUL AS SHOWG UP AND JT WORKG WH THE SCRIPT AND SEEG WHAT HAPPENS. BUT I DIDN’T KNOW THAT MY CHARACTER WOULD BE WEARG GLASS. THAT WAS A CHALLENGE. I DON’T WEAR THEM, SO THEY TOOK A LOT OF GETTG ED TO.GLASS ARE REALLY WEIRD TO GET ED TO AT FIRST.YEAH, AT FIRST. I FELT LIKE A HORSE THAT WAS TRYG TO BUCK OFF S MOUTH GEAR OR SOMETHG. [LGHS.]HAD YOU BEEN A FAN OF THE SHOW BEFORE YOU WERE ST?I HAD NEVER SEEN THE SHOW, BUT I HAD BEEN TOLD BY PEOPLE I RPECTED THAT THEY THOUGHT I WOULD LIKE . SO THEN WHEN I GOT THE JOB I BUM-SHED ALL THE EPISOS AND BGE-WATCHED THEM SO THAT BY THE TIME I SHOWED UP ON SET, I HAD JT SEEN ALL THE CHARACTERS DIE AND ALL THE PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR EMOTNAL STUFF.YOU EMERGED A TRMATIZED HK OF A PERSON.YEAH. [LGHS.] UGH. LIKE, HOW YA DOG? THGS WERE A LTLE H. PEOPLE HAD JT DIED AND I’D TAKEN HARD—WHEN PEOPLE DIE, ’S LIKE, “OH MY GOD.” SOME OF THE CHARACTERS HAD BEEN THERE FOR SEASONS! THAT WAS HARSH. THAT WAS TOUGH, OH MY GOODNS. PEOPLE ARE GOG TO BE PRETTY SAD ABOUT DENISE TOO, I IMAGE.WELL, I WASN’T AROUND ALL THAT MUCH. IT WAS A PRETTY PARATIVELY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.JT BEFORE SHE IS KILLED, SHE DO UNLOAD THIS REALLY STIRRG SPEECH ABOUT BEG STRONGER THAN YOU THK YOU ARE—WHICH IS BASILLY DENISE’S CHARACTER A NUTSHELL. FROM THE BEGNG WE WATCHED HER TAKE ON MORE AND MORE, OFTEN AGAST HER WILL, THAN SHE EVER THOUGHT SHE WAS PABLE OF. WHAT DID THAT SPEECH SAY TO YOU ABOUT DENISE’S PARTG LEGACY?I THK YOU SAID PRETTY WELL. EVEN BEFORE THE WORLD CHANGED AND BEFORE SHE GOT TRAPPED ALEXANDRIA, SHE’D BEEN LIVG FEARFULLY. SHE DROPPED OUT OF MED SCHOOL BEE OF PANIC ATTACKS AND WAS A THERAPIST. BUT THE WAY I HAD THOUGHT OF WAS SHE’D LIVED MOST OF HER LIFE WH HER WEIGHT ON HER BACK FOOT. I THK EARLIER THE SEASON SHE SAYS SHE’D SPENT MOST OF HER TIME READG ALEXANDRIA UNTIL SHE HAD TO BEE THE DOCTOR. AND SHE HATED AND DIDN’T FEEL LIKE SHE ULD DO AND SHE WAS FORCED TO THE POSN—BUT SHE DID . AND KD OF PREVAILED.HER RELATNSHIP WH TARA ALSO BROUGHT HER OUT OF HER SHELL THAT WAY.I THK THAT SHE HAD THE SAME KD OF FEARFUL HATN ABOUT BEG A RELATNSHIP WH TARA. WHEN TARA ASKS HER TO GO OUT ON A N WH HER, I THK SHE REGRETS THAT SHE WAS TOO SRED TO GO AND REGRETS NOT SAYG THAT SHE LOV HER BACK. THIS [GOG ON THE N WH DARYL AND ROSA] IS HER ATTEMPT TO KD OF MAKE UP FOR . I THK ALSO THAT SHE WANTS TO FEEL PART OF THE MUNY AND SHE WANTS TO HAVE A SENSE OF MARARIE FOR OTHER, STRONGER PEOPLE. IT’S A BIG AL FOR HER TO ASK TO GO OUT AT ALL, BUT I THK ’S ALSO A BIG AL THAT SHE ASKS DARYL, WHO REMDS HER OF HER BROTHER AND WHO DON’T PARTICULARLY TAKE A LIKG TO HER. [LGHS.]YEAH, SO I THK HER THERAPIST HAT IS ON A B THE CHOIC SHE MAK, AND SHE KD OF FAILS OVER AND OVER THROUGHOUT THE URSE OF THE TRIP. SHE DON’T GET TO DO MUCH AND SHE DON’T HAVE A LOT OF SKILL . IT OVERWHELMS HER. SEEG THE R ON THE SI OF THE TRACKS IS HER LAST CHANCE TO MAYBE PROVE SOMETHG, OR DO SOMETHG EFUL. IT’S A BIG W AND SHE FDS SODA FOR TARA. I THK SHE WANTS TO FEEL RPECTED BY ROSA AND DARYL FOR . AND THEY DON’T. AND SHE’S TIRED OF TRYG AND TRYG TO PROVE HERSELF.WHAT A BTAL NOTE TO END THE CHARACTER ON.I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN! I KNOW. BUT SHE ALSO GETS TO EXPERIENCE FEELG LIKE SHE DID . LIKE, SHE GOT . SHE WAS BRAVE. SHE WAS REWARD BY GETTG HER GIRLIEND’S SODA AND SHE GOT TO EXPERIENCE FEELG PABLE—EVEN IF WAS ONLY FOR 30 SENDS. I HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THAT SICKENG MOMENT WHERE THE ARROW GO THROUGH DENISE’S HEAD—’S THIS HORRIBLE SPL SEND OF NFN BOTH FOR THE CHARACTERS AND FOR VIEWERS BEE SHE NTU TO TALK FOR A SEND, WHICH IS ODDLY DISORIENTG. HOW DO YOU FIGURE OUT HOW YOU’D SOUND TALKG WH AN ARROW LODGED THROUGH YOUR BRA?I KNOW, YOU DO AND YOU’RE LIKE, “AM I DOG RIGHT?” “IS THIS HOW WOULD LOOK?” I MAY HAVE DONE SOME GOOGLG. YEAH, I JT HAD TO PRETEND I KNEW WHAT SOMEBODY WOULD LOOK LIKE. IT WAS THE SCRIPT THAT SHE KEEPS TALKG A LTLE B BEFORE EVERYTHG KD OF BREAKS DOWN AND SHE HS THE GROUND. BUT AT LEAST ONLY LASTED A SEND. IF SHE’D BEEN ATTACKED BY ZOMBI SHE WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT WAS HAPPENG AND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HORRIBLE. SO AT LEAST THIS IS A QUICK LIGHTS OUT.TE, THERE IS THAT BRIGHT SI. THERE’S ALSO BEEN NTROVERSY LATELY OVER THE EQUENCY WH WHICH QUEER FEMALE CHARACTERS ON TV ARE KILLED OFF. ANOTHER SHOW, THE 100, RECENTLY KILLED OFF A LBIAN CHARACTER AND ’S A TROPE THAT GO BACK TO BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER AND EVEN OLR SHOWS. I WAS WONRG HOW YOU MIGHT FEEL ABOUT FANS WORRYG THAT DENISE HAS NOW FALLEN VICTIM TO THE SAME TROPE.THAT’S TERTG, I HADN’T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT WAY. I’D KNOWN THAT THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN WHEN I SIGNED ON, BUT I NEVER FELT LIKE I WAS SOMEHOW NOT BEG VALUED. THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN. AND I THK THE IC BOOK, I THK [DENISE] IS WH A MAN. I THK THAT THEY SPECIFILLY WANTED TO BUILD A RELATNSHIP FOR TARA. BUT THAT SAID, I UNRSTAND IF VIEWERS WATCHG THE SHOW REALLY INTIFY WH THE CHARACTER OR LIKE SEEG THEMSELV OR SOME PART OF THE WORLD THAT THEY KNOW IS REAL AND TE AND VALID AND PREVALENT REPRENTED. AND THEN TO HAVE THAT TAKEN AWAY, I FELY SEE HOW THAT WOULD BE DISAPPOTG THE BROAR SCHEME OF THGS. I’M NOT SURE THAT THAT’S WHAT WAS GOG ON HERE BUT I UNRSTAND THE SENTIMENT VERY WELL AND I AM FAIAR WH THE [TROPE OF] BLACK CHARACTERS OR GAY CHARACTERS GETTG KILLED OFF BEE [THEY’RE NSIRED] LS HUMAN OR LS REAL OR LS IMPORTANT AND PEOPLE AREN’T GONNA RE AS MUCH. FROM MY END, DIDN’T FEEL LIKE THAT’S WHAT WAS HAPPENG THOUGH. BUT I CERTALY UNRSTAND THE NCERN THE WIR CULTURE.WILL YOU KEEP WATCHG THE SHOW AFTER THIS?I HAVE THIS THG WHERE ONCE I’VE SEEN HOW THE SSAGE IS MA, I N’T WATCH THE SHOW. I N’T ENJOY . MY TIME AS A FAN WAS BRIEF BUT VIBRANT. MELISSA LEON
• MERRT WEVER B, WIKI, AGE, THE WALKG DEAD, FAY, EDUTN, CAREER, HBAND, GAY, NET WORTH, HEIGHT, WEIGHT

MERRT WEVER MARRIED STAT, GAY, MOVI & TV SHOWS, FACTS

Appeared a number of movi and TV the TV seri, Nurse Jacke and a worth the role of Mary Agn McNue, a gay characterMerrt Wever is one of the proment nam the entertament dtry who is well-regnized for her acts Nurse Jackie, Godls and Unbelievable.

As wh many other celebri, has always been speculated the qutn - Merrt Wever is gay? Yet, as often happens wh artists of this field, the mors that Merrt Wever is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg. More and more celebri adm every year that they are gay, but this is not the se wh Merrt Wever sce this celebry never said so.

IS MERRT WEVER GAY?

Although Merrt Wever has refed on numero ocsns to beg homosexual, mors are nstantly found on-le.

This awful event leav the town to be populated exclively by LADIES, and for viewers of a certa stripe, this rais an obv qutn: jt how gay is this sh gonna be? Well, judgg om the show’s trailers, the answer is: pretty goddamn gay.

For whatever reason, the laws of predictive stg dictate that if someone has played gay before, they are likely to aga.

IS MERRT WEVER MARRIED? HER BOYIEND, & GAY RUMORS

This mor has s roots her gay character Denise Cloyd The Walkg Dead. So, is the actrs gay or datg a girliend? Is Merrt Gay?

MERRT WEVER MARRIED, BOYIEND, GAY, WALKG DEAD, WEIGHT LOSS, EMMY AWARDS

Up until now, Wever has not addrsed qutns about her sexualy, so we don’t know for sure if the actrs is gay or straight. The Manhattan native once starred a h movie ‘The Walkg Dead’ as Denise Cloyd, who was nfirmed to be a gay character.

Followg this rmatn, the mor about Merrt beg gay is probably unte.

Merrt Wever’s Gay Character In “The Walkg Dead”.

‘THE WALKG DEAD’S’ MERRT WEVER ON #BURYYOURGAYS AND DENISE’S LAST VICTORYHEROISMTHE EMMY-WNG ACTRS OPENS UP ABOUT DENISE’S SHOCKG EPISO AND WHAT MEANS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE SHOW. [WARNG: MAJOR SPOILERS] MELISSA LEONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 6:46PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 20, 2016 10:00PM EDT GENE PAGE/AMCTHOUGH ENDS WH ATH, NFN AND THE APOLYPSE EQUIVALENT OF A TEXT MSAGE BREAK UP (WHAT THE HELL, CAROL?), SUNDAY’S EPISO OF THE WALKG DEAD, “TWICE AS FAR,” STARTS OUT AS A REMPTN STORY FOR TWO SELF-DOUBTG UNRDOGS: EUGENE AND DENISE, WHO FALLY NONT THEIR FEARS AND FIGHT TO SURVIVE—AT LEAST, UNTIL ONE OF THEM DON’T.THE GREEN-FLETCHED ARROW THAT PIERCED DENISE THROUGH THE BACK OF HER SKULL STRAIGHT THROUGH TO HER EYE WAS A HORRIFILLY UNEXPECTED BLOW. NOT ONLY BEE THE LOVE-STCK PSYCHOLOGIST TURNED RELUCTANT DOCTOR WAS THE MIDDLE OF A ROG MOTIVATNAL SPEECH ABOUT REGRET AND MISSED OPPORTUNI, BUT ALSO BEE, AS FAR AS IC BOOK REARS KNEW, THAT ARROW OM DARYL’S OLD CROSSBOW ONCE KILLED SOMEONE ELSE. (SPOILERS AHEAD FOR WALKG DEAD ISSUE 98.) WHAT THIS MORBID SWCHEROO OM ABRAHAM TO DENISE MEANS FOR THE SHOW’S OTHER IMMENT, INIC MURR AT THE HANDS OF THE SAVRS’ LEAR NEGAN IS UNCLEAR.DENISE’S STORY, MEANWHILE, IS LEFT UNFISHED. SHORTLY BEFORE HER ATH—MA ALL THE MORE STOMACH-TURNG BY THOSE FEW WORDS SHE SLURS AFTER IMPACT—DENISE HAD EXPRSED REGRET AT BEG TOO AAID TO GO WH HER GIRLIEND TARA ON A TWO WEEK-LONG HUNT FOR SUPPLI. SHE REGRETTED NEVER TELLG TARA “I LOVE YOU” RETURN. AND, SPE HER REPEATED SCREW-UPS, SHE HAD JT BEGUN TO BUILD NFINCE HERSELF AS A DOCTOR AND VALUABLE MEMBER OF THE ALEXANDRIAN MUNY.STILL, MERRT WEVER, THE EMMY-WNER WHO PLAYS DENISE (BT KNOWN FOR HER WORK ON NURSE JACKIE AND HER CHARMGLY BRIEF 2013 EMMYS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: “THANKS SO MUCH. I GOTTA GO. BYE.”), SAYS THERE IS A SILVER LG DENISE’S FAL MOMENTS: THAT SODA SHE FALLY FOUND FOR TARA. “IT’S A BIG W WHEN SHE FDS SODA FOR TARA. I THK SHE WANTS TO FEEL RPECTED BY ROSA AND DARYL FOR ,” WEVER SAYS. “AND THEY DON’T. AND SHE’S TIRED OF TRYG AND TRYG TO PROVE HERSELF.”DENISE’S FAL WORDS ARE ANGRY, BERATG HER PANNS FOR NOT TAKG MORE CHANC. BUT THE WAY WEVER SE , THERE’S TRIUMPH DENISE’S FAL MOMENTS TOO, A FEELG THAT THE BOOKWORM WHO HAD TO DROP OUT OF MED SCHOOL DUE TO CHRONIC PANIC ATTACKS, THE ONE WHO WAS FORCED TO THE ROLE OF DOCTOR AND HATED THE PRSURE, FALLY FELT ACPLISHED. “SHE GETS TO EXPERIENCE FEELG LIKE SHE DID ,” WEVER SAYS. “LIKE, SHE GOT . SHE WAS BRAVE. SHE WAS REWARD BY GETTG HER GIRLIEND’S SODA AND SHE GOT TO EXPERIENCE FEELG PABLE—EVEN IF WAS ONLY FOR 30 SENDS.”THE DAILY BEAST TALKED TO WEVER ABOUT DENISE’S PREMATURE MISE, WHY SHE WON’T BE WATCHG THE SHOW ANYMORE, AND WHETHER DENISE'S ATH FEEDS TO TV'S PERNIC "BURY YOUR GAYS" TROPE, AN ISSUE RAISED AGA RECENTLY AFTER A LBIAN CHARACTER ON THE CW'S THE 100 WAS SUDNLY KILLED OFF.DENISE’S ATH IS SO BTAL AND PLETELY OUT OF THE BLUE. DID YOU KNOW GOG THAT THIS WAS THE RDS FOR HER?I KNEW WAS G. [LGHS.] I KNEW THAT STT ONLY WANTED [DENISE] FOR ONE SEASON SO I KNEW THAT [MY TIME ON THE SHOW] WOULD BE G TO AN END. AND MOST LIKELY THAT END WOULD BE, I ASSUMED, A ATH, ‘E OF THE NATURE OF THE SHOW. THEN I FOUND OUT HOW WAS GONNA GO DOWN MAYBE A UPLE OF WEEKS BEFORE WE SHOT . WERE YOU SURPRISED THAT THEY’D CHOSEN DENISE TO REPLACE ABRAHAM THIS FAMO ATH OM THE ICS?YEAH, I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT ALL THAT UNTIL PEOPLE TOLD ME. I’M SO NAIVE—I DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE THAT DENISE IS THE IC BOOK AND THAT THEY FOLLOWED THE BOOKS AND BROUGHT THE CHARACTERS LIKE THAT. SO I DIDN’T KNOW THAT I WAS PLAYG SOMEONE WHO WASN’T JT ON THE SHOW UNTIL I WAS HAIR AND MAKP AND THEY SHOWED ME A PICTURE OF HER.DID YOU GO BACK AND READ ANYTHG ABOUT HER?I DIDN’T BEE HADN’T SEEMED LIKE STT [GIMPLE, THE WALKG DEAD EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND SHOWNNER] THOUGHT THAT WAS THE WAY TO GO. I GOT THE IMPRSN THAT THEY WEREN’T GOG TO BE FOLLOWG TO A T, SO I HAD A FEELG MIGHT NOT BE AS EFUL AS SHOWG UP AND JT WORKG WH THE SCRIPT AND SEEG WHAT HAPPENS. BUT I DIDN’T KNOW THAT MY CHARACTER WOULD BE WEARG GLASS. THAT WAS A CHALLENGE. I DON’T WEAR THEM, SO THEY TOOK A LOT OF GETTG ED TO.GLASS ARE REALLY WEIRD TO GET ED TO AT FIRST.YEAH, AT FIRST. I FELT LIKE A HORSE THAT WAS TRYG TO BUCK OFF S MOUTH GEAR OR SOMETHG. [LGHS.]HAD YOU BEEN A FAN OF THE SHOW BEFORE YOU WERE ST?I HAD NEVER SEEN THE SHOW, BUT I HAD BEEN TOLD BY PEOPLE I RPECTED THAT THEY THOUGHT I WOULD LIKE . SO THEN WHEN I GOT THE JOB I BUM-SHED ALL THE EPISOS AND BGE-WATCHED THEM SO THAT BY THE TIME I SHOWED UP ON SET, I HAD JT SEEN ALL THE CHARACTERS DIE AND ALL THE PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR EMOTNAL STUFF.YOU EMERGED A TRMATIZED HK OF A PERSON.YEAH. [LGHS.] UGH. LIKE, HOW YA DOG? THGS WERE A LTLE H. PEOPLE HAD JT DIED AND I’D TAKEN HARD—WHEN PEOPLE DIE, ’S LIKE, “OH MY GOD.” SOME OF THE CHARACTERS HAD BEEN THERE FOR SEASONS! THAT WAS HARSH. THAT WAS TOUGH, OH MY GOODNS. PEOPLE ARE GOG TO BE PRETTY SAD ABOUT DENISE TOO, I IMAGE.WELL, I WASN’T AROUND ALL THAT MUCH. IT WAS A PRETTY PARATIVELY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.JT BEFORE SHE IS KILLED, SHE DO UNLOAD THIS REALLY STIRRG SPEECH ABOUT BEG STRONGER THAN YOU THK YOU ARE—WHICH IS BASILLY DENISE’S CHARACTER A NUTSHELL. FROM THE BEGNG WE WATCHED HER TAKE ON MORE AND MORE, OFTEN AGAST HER WILL, THAN SHE EVER THOUGHT SHE WAS PABLE OF. WHAT DID THAT SPEECH SAY TO YOU ABOUT DENISE’S PARTG LEGACY?I THK YOU SAID PRETTY WELL. EVEN BEFORE THE WORLD CHANGED AND BEFORE SHE GOT TRAPPED ALEXANDRIA, SHE’D BEEN LIVG FEARFULLY. SHE DROPPED OUT OF MED SCHOOL BEE OF PANIC ATTACKS AND WAS A THERAPIST. BUT THE WAY I HAD THOUGHT OF WAS SHE’D LIVED MOST OF HER LIFE WH HER WEIGHT ON HER BACK FOOT. I THK EARLIER THE SEASON SHE SAYS SHE’D SPENT MOST OF HER TIME READG ALEXANDRIA UNTIL SHE HAD TO BEE THE DOCTOR. AND SHE HATED AND DIDN’T FEEL LIKE SHE ULD DO AND SHE WAS FORCED TO THE POSN—BUT SHE DID . AND KD OF PREVAILED.HER RELATNSHIP WH TARA ALSO BROUGHT HER OUT OF HER SHELL THAT WAY.I THK THAT SHE HAD THE SAME KD OF FEARFUL HATN ABOUT BEG A RELATNSHIP WH TARA. WHEN TARA ASKS HER TO GO OUT ON A N WH HER, I THK SHE REGRETS THAT SHE WAS TOO SRED TO GO AND REGRETS NOT SAYG THAT SHE LOV HER BACK. THIS [GOG ON THE N WH DARYL AND ROSA] IS HER ATTEMPT TO KD OF MAKE UP FOR . I THK ALSO THAT SHE WANTS TO FEEL PART OF THE MUNY AND SHE WANTS TO HAVE A SENSE OF MARARIE FOR OTHER, STRONGER PEOPLE. IT’S A BIG AL FOR HER TO ASK TO GO OUT AT ALL, BUT I THK ’S ALSO A BIG AL THAT SHE ASKS DARYL, WHO REMDS HER OF HER BROTHER AND WHO DON’T PARTICULARLY TAKE A LIKG TO HER. [LGHS.]YEAH, SO I THK HER THERAPIST HAT IS ON A B THE CHOIC SHE MAK, AND SHE KD OF FAILS OVER AND OVER THROUGHOUT THE URSE OF THE TRIP. SHE DON’T GET TO DO MUCH AND SHE DON’T HAVE A LOT OF SKILL . IT OVERWHELMS HER. SEEG THE R ON THE SI OF THE TRACKS IS HER LAST CHANCE TO MAYBE PROVE SOMETHG, OR DO SOMETHG EFUL. IT’S A BIG W AND SHE FDS SODA FOR TARA. I THK SHE WANTS TO FEEL RPECTED BY ROSA AND DARYL FOR . AND THEY DON’T. AND SHE’S TIRED OF TRYG AND TRYG TO PROVE HERSELF.WHAT A BTAL NOTE TO END THE CHARACTER ON.I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN! I KNOW. BUT SHE ALSO GETS TO EXPERIENCE FEELG LIKE SHE DID . LIKE, SHE GOT . SHE WAS BRAVE. SHE WAS REWARD BY GETTG HER GIRLIEND’S SODA AND SHE GOT TO EXPERIENCE FEELG PABLE—EVEN IF WAS ONLY FOR 30 SENDS. I HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THAT SICKENG MOMENT WHERE THE ARROW GO THROUGH DENISE’S HEAD—’S THIS HORRIBLE SPL SEND OF NFN BOTH FOR THE CHARACTERS AND FOR VIEWERS BEE SHE NTU TO TALK FOR A SEND, WHICH IS ODDLY DISORIENTG. HOW DO YOU FIGURE OUT HOW YOU’D SOUND TALKG WH AN ARROW LODGED THROUGH YOUR BRA?I KNOW, YOU DO AND YOU’RE LIKE, “AM I DOG RIGHT?” “IS THIS HOW WOULD LOOK?” I MAY HAVE DONE SOME GOOGLG. YEAH, I JT HAD TO PRETEND I KNEW WHAT SOMEBODY WOULD LOOK LIKE. IT WAS THE SCRIPT THAT SHE KEEPS TALKG A LTLE B BEFORE EVERYTHG KD OF BREAKS DOWN AND SHE HS THE GROUND. BUT AT LEAST ONLY LASTED A SEND. IF SHE’D BEEN ATTACKED BY ZOMBI SHE WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT WAS HAPPENG AND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HORRIBLE. SO AT LEAST THIS IS A QUICK LIGHTS OUT.TE, THERE IS THAT BRIGHT SI. THERE’S ALSO BEEN NTROVERSY LATELY OVER THE EQUENCY WH WHICH QUEER FEMALE CHARACTERS ON TV ARE KILLED OFF. ANOTHER SHOW, THE 100, RECENTLY KILLED OFF A LBIAN CHARACTER AND ’S A TROPE THAT GO BACK TO BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER AND EVEN OLR SHOWS. I WAS WONRG HOW YOU MIGHT FEEL ABOUT FANS WORRYG THAT DENISE HAS NOW FALLEN VICTIM TO THE SAME TROPE.THAT’S TERTG, I HADN’T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT WAY. I’D KNOWN THAT THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN WHEN I SIGNED ON, BUT I NEVER FELT LIKE I WAS SOMEHOW NOT BEG VALUED. THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN. AND I THK THE IC BOOK, I THK [DENISE] IS WH A MAN. I THK THAT THEY SPECIFILLY WANTED TO BUILD A RELATNSHIP FOR TARA. BUT THAT SAID, I UNRSTAND IF VIEWERS WATCHG THE SHOW REALLY INTIFY WH THE CHARACTER OR LIKE SEEG THEMSELV OR SOME PART OF THE WORLD THAT THEY KNOW IS REAL AND TE AND VALID AND PREVALENT REPRENTED. AND THEN TO HAVE THAT TAKEN AWAY, I FELY SEE HOW THAT WOULD BE DISAPPOTG THE BROAR SCHEME OF THGS. I’M NOT SURE THAT THAT’S WHAT WAS GOG ON HERE BUT I UNRSTAND THE SENTIMENT VERY WELL AND I AM FAIAR WH THE [TROPE OF] BLACK CHARACTERS OR GAY CHARACTERS GETTG KILLED OFF BEE [THEY’RE NSIRED] LS HUMAN OR LS REAL OR LS IMPORTANT AND PEOPLE AREN’T GONNA RE AS MUCH. FROM MY END, DIDN’T FEEL LIKE THAT’S WHAT WAS HAPPENG THOUGH. BUT I CERTALY UNRSTAND THE NCERN THE WIR CULTURE.WILL YOU KEEP WATCHG THE SHOW AFTER THIS?I HAVE THIS THG WHERE ONCE I’VE SEEN HOW THE SSAGE IS MA, I N’T WATCH THE SHOW. I N’T ENJOY . MY TIME AS A FAN WAS BRIEF BUT VIBRANT. MELISSA LEON

TV seri fans seem to be fur and trated at the ath of the proment lbian character, Denise hence the trendg e of the hashtag #BuryYourGays.

MERRT WEVER B, WIKI, AGE, THE WALKG DEAD, FAY, EDUTN, CAREER, HBAND, GAY, NET WORTH, HEIGHT, WEIGHT

Some fans still see Denise’s ath as part of a larger cultural trope of the unfair killg of gay and lbian characters on televisn seri of which “The Walkg Dead” isn’t the only example. When terviewed on her role as Denise the seri and how the character’s premature mise sparked up h” Bury Your Gays” issue after a lbian character on the CW’s The 100 was sudnly killed off, Merrt Wever simply said that though she knew that the character Denise was meant to die, she only recently realized how that didn’t go down well wh fans. Perhaps this raised the qutn of whether or not Merrt is ed gay.

Is Gay/Lbian. ”The Daily Beast talked to Wever about Denise’s premature mise, why she won’t be watchg the show anymore, and whether Denise's ath feeds to TV's pernic "Bury Your Gays" trope, an issue raised aga recently after a lbian character on the CW's The 100 was sudnly killed ’s ath is so btal and pletely out of the blue. I’m not sure that that’s what was gog on here but I unrstand the sentiment very well and I am faiar wh the [trope of] black characters or gay characters gettg killed off bee [they’re nsired] ls human or ls real or ls important and people aren’t gonna re as much.