Spoilers The Walking DEAD saison 8Le père de
Chandler Riggs s'exprime plus clairement sur la sortie de son fils et comment elle leur a été annoncée. En gros, il précise en effet que
Chandler ne voulait pas quitter la série, il venait d'ailleurs d'être accepté à l'Université de Georgie et aurait suivi des cours par correspondance comme il faisait depuis 8 ans pendant les périodes de tournage. Il venait même de s'acheter une maison près du lieu de tournage pour ne pas avoir à faire la route matin et soir.. et ils l'ont appelés alors que 6 épisodes étaient déjà tournés pour lui apprendre que s'en était terminé pour
Carl dans quelques épisodes (3, donc).
Je trouve ça vraiment dégueulasse qu'ils aient laissé ce jeune acteur prendre de si grosses décisions (université, maison) et encore plus qu'ils ne l'aient prévenu qu'au dernier moment.. 3 épisodes c'est quoi, 6 semaines de tournage ? Pauvre gosse.
"Just to clarify once and for all: Chandler didn’t want to leave the show," William Riggs said in a Facebook post on Satrday. "He had been accepted at [Universiy of Georgia], and would complete school while working (online when filming) as he had done high school for the last 8 years. Scott Gimple personally called him and said on a conference call in April that they needed him for 3 years. Chandler agreed to a 2 year contract, which was typical. 1 year guaranteed and the next one at their option, which was also typical. He signed the deal, graduated from high school and went back to work. He bought a house near the set and enrolled at UGA so that he could be close to work since we had been commuting nearly 2 hours each way all these years. It was the middle of June, his 18th birthday was coming up in a couple of weeks, 5 episodes were filmed, and they asked for my wife and I to both be at a meeting with Chandler- which was a little odd. It made me nervous but he and his manager assured me it was to plan for filming schedule, etc. Scott Gimple was the only one there and he told us that Carl would be gone in a few episodes. Chandler was absolutely devastated. I was disappointed Scott had been dishonest with a 17 year old making life decisions and waited to tell us. After it aired, I was asked to comment on how I felt. I did, maybe shouldn’t have. 3 hours later AMC asked me to take the comment down- which I did- 6 hours later TMZ called and wanted me on and I declined. None of it has ever really been about me. Don’t know why anyone would say anything about me- but that’s ok- teaching Chandler to disregard negativity came with the deal so I can do it too lol. I never made it difficult for my son, our family had to work together to make it possible for him. Extremely grateful for the opportunity and 8 great years; as a parent I felt Chandler had earned better treatment, but that’s the biz. Unkind timing."