
Lauren Cohan, So It Goes Magazine
Lauren Cohan for So it Goes Magazine
What now is your own priority as an actor?
Story. To tell a good story.
Lauren Cohan photographed by Toby Knott for So It Goes Magazine
‘I feel like once you lose the people you learned the most from, that’s when you start to realize what you actually learned, you know when you don’t have anyone else to lean on. In some ways you become the most resilient remnants of the people that touched you.’
Lauren Cohan for So It Goes Magazine
The scale of the show has swelled so dramatically in the last few seasons. How has that tangibly changed the experience of filming since you very first started?
It feels like it hasn’t changed. Today we had some combat… and it’s running around your garden as a kid. We’re so lucky that its a big show, but the joys of it are so simple.
Lauren Cohan photographed by Toby Knott for So It Goes Magazine
‘I don’t think about the physical or the battle side of things, but I do think about the humanity in an apocalypse. That’s why i like it - the lives they live - it cuts all the fat. You get to focus on the humanity. It makes me feel like I want as rich a life all the time as the life these characters live. Grateful for every day.’
Lauren Cohan photographed by Toby Knott for So It Goes Magazine
‘I grew up watching Steve Martin movies just wanting to be Steve Martin.’
We’ll see through the season how Glenn lives in her. I think that what’s important here for her is that in the beginning, she goes to the grave and garners the strength that she can from where his body lays, communicates with him and the baby, creates a communication for them, and then even in the conversation with Sasha, not everything is lost, and it’s that Maggie thing. She’s just like, focus on the horizon, find strength from the loss, persevere and just keep doing that if you can until you find another solution. It’s just sort of keeping the next actionable task in your immediate sight. Just try to get through moment by moment. I think that’s really what’s happening here in this episode, and what continues to happen this season as everybody reels from these great losses of these two huge pillars in Glenn and Abraham.
-Lauren Cohan
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Amen.