The Walking Dead’s Paul ‘Jesus’ Rovia may have been a fan favorite, but actor Tom Payne had felt it was time to move on by the time his character was written off the show. Spoiler for anyone who hasn’t kept up with The Walking Dead. Jesus had met his demise in the middle of season nine and Payne states it was time to leave at that point.
“Ultimately it came down to just happiness in my job, and I was just like, ‘Well, I’ve done this for three years,’ and that was the longest I’ve ever done any acting job,” Payne told ComicBook.com’s Talking Shop. And I had kind of done everything that I wanted to do on the show, and I didn’t really see the point in hanging around and just waiting for something to happen. We’d done some fight stuff which was really cool, but it didn’t seem like it was really going to go… his storyline wasn’t going to develop much.”
Payne also laughed and added:
“And everyone is like jockeying for position on that show and waiting for their time to shine, and I was just kind of over it, really.”
Does it feel like The Walking Dead should end? And what did you think of Jesus’ departure from the story?
Source: NME
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