One of the most compelling villains to come out of ‘The Walking Dead’ was Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan, and now he’s back in ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ (June 18 on AMC). “Since we’ve last seen him, he’s not doing great,” Morgan told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. The story picks up two years after the original series, where Negan and Maggie (played by Lauren Cohan) came to a truce after Negan killed Maggie’s husband. “Some of the old Negan is back; he’s a showman and not afraid of violence.” The new series explores why Negan is so violent. “What was most important to me was that he wasn’t one note [in Dead City]; it would have been easy to be that same guy. How can we show other sides? A villain that’s interesting is [one] you can understand why he became a villain.” We’ll also “learn a little bit more about Negan’s life pre-Walking Dead.” And he’s more than happy to keep playing Negan. “I wouldn’t still be here if it hasn’t been one of the coolest experiences of my work life. I just feel incredibly blessed to be able to play what I think is one of the coolest villains in the history of film/TV.” 

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