Walking Dead Maggie Easter Egg Honors Lauren Cohan’s Supernatural Role
Did you catch The Walking Dead's subtle connection between Maggie Rhee and Lauren Cohan's Supernatural character? As The Walking Dead season 11's «The Lucky Ones» begins, the Commonwealth is activating full-on sales pitch mode, encouraging Alexandria, Hilltop and Oceanside to assimilate with Pamela Milton's burgeoning empire. While Alexandria can't sign up quickly enough, Maggie proves a sticking point, unsure whether to trust these too-good-to-be-true corporate politicians with a glint in their eye and a knife behind their back. Maggie's mistrust means plenty of «back on the farm...» and «my daddy said...» discussions, and it's one such anecdote that crosses the divide between The Walking Dead and Supernatural.
Before Lauren Cohan was deftly avoiding the undead, one of her earliest breakout roles came in Supernatural season 3, where she made a handful of appearances as Bela Talbot, acclaimed thief of occult objects large and small. Occupying a gray area morally speaking, Bela left a lasting impression on Sam and Dean Winchester — and also on the motel room where she was decimated by hellhounds hungry for her soul. Bela Talbot's trip to hell meant Maggie Greene could walk among the dead on Earth.
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In «The Lucky Ones,» The Walking Dead nods to Bela with a line that only Supernatural fans can appreciate fully. Speaking with the serpentine Lance Hornsby, Maggie remembers, "I had a lucky rabbit's foot once. My dog brought it home with the rabbit still attached." Though carrying around a dead animal's severed limb has, oddly enough, lost favor in recent years, the rabbit's foot is a common symbol of good fortune. It was also the object at the center of
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