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“This is not real blood. I work for The Walking Dead”: The cast and crew had to write notes to let hotel staff know they weren’t murderers
The Walking Dead cast and crew would return from shoots covered in blood, forcing them to explain to hotel workers that they weren’t murderers
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Imagine you’re a hotel worker. A guest walks into the lobby late at night, and they’re covered in blood. Would you suspect they were a murderer, or just assume they were filming an episode of a zombie apocalypse drama? For the cast of The Walking Dead, they couldn’t afford to take any chances, so they made sure to let hotel staff know by leaving notes.
Scott Gimple, who served as TWD’s showrunner, kept one of his notes, and shared it during a New York Comic Con panel. “It’s a piece of stationary from a hotel if that helps. That says please note this is not real blood. I work for The Walking Dead,” Scott Gimple says during a Walking Dead spotlight panel at New York Comic Con 2022.
“I’m staying at the Wyndham Hotel, they’re doing my laundry, and I have a blood covered shirt, and ergo, that note.”
This wasn’t an isolated incident. The Walking Dead cast have had to explain bloodied clothes many times over the years. “I think all of us have written that note at a hotel,” Daryl Dixon actor Norman Reedus says.
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