I saw Paola Lázaro, who plays Princess, with you on Friday Night in With the Morgans talking very openly about growing up with ADHD. So came about from production limitations a practical reality of, "Well, what do we want to talk about?" And then, "What can we learn about her without getting ahead of what we have planned for season 11?" And so it sort of makes sense to illuminate a little bit more about who she is and where she came from, and the challenges she's faced as somebody who has had to live by herself for a very, very, very long time, and the things that has done to her mental state. So then the writers started working on it and had this wild pitch for the twist at the end, which I was not expecting, but which I thought was really interesting.
I think the audience, anytime we have a new character, they're hungry to know more about them and live through their experience. Since Princess is the newest of that group, we thought what a great time to dive in more with Princess. It's got to come through a character's individual experience because then you can live it through what they are seeing, hearing, and experiencing. We felt like we wanted to touch on them, but how do you do that and just leave a member of the foursome out of the episode other than via voice and the effect shots?Īnd we're like, the way you can do it is if you make the story about a POV. It wouldn't have made sense to not have her in the episodes and it didn't make sense to not deal with that grouping at all. But we made a decision for safety reasons. and Germany, at home until we could get a little more of a handle on what was going on, which sucks because we love Eleanor, and she desperately wanted to come back to work. So the decision was made to leave Eleanor and Nadia, who hail from the U.K. With Princess, there was this very practical thing that ended up happening, which is that when we were filming these episodes, we didn't fly our European-based actors here because at the time we started prepping, the epidemiologist was like, "Well, air travel across the country, there's ways to mitigate the risk, but anybody who doesn't have to fly right now really shouldn't."
Where did the idea come from to delve into both Princess' past and her mental illness? That's according to showrunner Angela Kang, who shared more insight and intel on the installment. Where are they off to next? Turns out it may not be where comic book readers familiar with this story arc think. Princess eventually cut a deal with the soldier, answering the questions she had refused to answer before and giving him his weapon back - only to then see her friends with bags over their heads, and then one placed on hers as well. That trauma came back into play later as we watched Ezekiel brutally assault one of the captured soldiers, only to then realize it was actually Princess - who confessed to suffering from ADHD, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and "crushing loneliness" - that was beating the soldier and that she had been imagining the interactions with her traveling companions all along. Through conversations (either face-to-face or through walls) with her new friends, we learned about Princess' devastating past, which included her being physically assaulted by her stepfather. The episode then focused on what happened immediately in the aftermath to Princess, who was thrown into a train car (never a good place to be on The Walking Dead, incidentally). Picking up right where what was originally the season 10 finale ended, "Splinter" showed what happened next to Princess, Eugene, Yumiko, and Ezekiel after they were surrounded by white-armor clad stormtrooper-looking soldiers at the train yard meeting spot designated by Eugene's radio buddy Stephanie. Something didn't quite add up during Sunday's "Splinter" episode of The Walking Dead. Warning: This article contains spoilers about Sunday's episode of The Walking Dead titled "Splinter."
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