The Walking Dead showrunner reveals scrapped plans for Maggie’s post-Glenn romance
The Walking Dead boss Angela Kang has revealed that the writers originally planned on giving Maggie Rhee an onscreen romance with Alden, following husband Glenn’s controversial death in season six.
The second chapter in the zombie drama’s supersized season 11 saw Maggie (Lauren Cohan) return to the hut where she had left an injured Alden (Callan McAuliffe), only to discover that he had turned undead in her absence. As not to leave him wandering around Georgia in his walker state forever, Maggie knifed Alden in the head, before collapsing on top of him in a devastated heap.
The pair had been close prior to his death, with Alden stepping in as Maggie’s second-in-command at the Hilltop Colony when former co-leaders Jesus (Tom Monroe) and Tara (Alanna Masterston) were killed by Alpha and her Whisperers. They might have become even closer, though, had Cohan not stepped away from the show for a brief spell in seasons nine and 10.
"[Alden] was originally cast as a Dante-like character," Kang recently told TV Line, referring to Maggie’s same-named love interest in Robert Kirkman’s graphic novels.
"Not Dante himself - we obviously used him in a different sort of context as we do sometimes," she continued, noting how show-Dante, who was played by Juan Javier Cardenas, turned out to be a havoc-wreaking Whisperer spy hiding out in Alexandria.
"We changed gears at a certain point because Lauren left the show for a while, and we knew she was coming back at some point. But by the time she did, it felt like the characters had sort of evolved along different tracks than they would have if she’d been there the whole time.
"That happens frequently, like when one of our cast members takes a job and leaves the show or takes a hiatus. The
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