Dead City’ star Kim Coates reacts to Bruegel’s fate

Well, he said many times how much he wanted methane. And, in the end, he understood it.

Bruegel by Kim Coates finally managed to obtain methane gas which he desperately sought on the final of season 2 of The Walking Dead: Dead CityBut not in the way he considered. Bruegel found himself on his knees next to Armstrong (Gaius Charles) in a classic range from Negan. Even if the character of Jeffrey Dean Morgan put an end to his Eeny-Meeny-Miny-Moe on Armstrong, the man with the baseball battling of barbed wire decided to call an audible. “What do you know?

After hearing Bruegel’s calls once again on the electrical power of methane, Negan had enough. “The methane. The fucking methane,” replied Negan. “That’s all you’re talking about. Do you really want methane to be so bad? Take it. ” And with that, he put a methane pump in Bruegel’s mouth and lit a torch before looking at his opponent burning from the inside and finally breaking his head with Lucille.

It was a brutal end for Bruegel, one of the most exciting additions to The Walking Dead franchise in years. This is mainly due to an incredible and idiosyncratic performance of coats. Weekly entertainment Sitting with the Son of anarchy Veteran to discuss the ardent end of his character.

Entertainment Weekly: Let’s start at the end. Did you know when you took the job for the premature disappearance of Bruegel in the final?

Kim Coates: This is a great question, because it’s a bit complicated. I know it was a year ago, in April, that my people said [showrunner] Eli Jorné wrote a game for you as a bad guy. Go on board just for the season. I read the first episode then the fourth episode, which was an episode of very heavy Bruegel, and I signed right away. They looked at daily newspapers every day and checked this and did their thing. And Jeffrey Dean Morgan and I are attached to the hip, and I also loved Lauren Cohan, and Lisa Emery.

I do not know if it was perhaps the fifth or the sixth episode when Eli just said to me: “My boy, we really find it difficult to pass by killing Bruegel.” And I took this as a compliment, of course. And I think Bruegel has brought real spices to the season, and I think you need it. I know in Son of anarchyWe had our three main tracks, then 10 of us head actors. And guy, when a guest person came for a season to make things burst, it just made people want him even more.

So I always knew that Bruegel was not going to get to the end. I always knew that this scene of death was going to be memorable for all those who watch the spectacle. I was sad to say goodbye, but I knew it was going to happen and I was completely agree with that.

So what are you doing with death by methane?

It’s as Dracula bite into another vampire and sucks his own bloodless body. I mean, everything Bruegel talked about was the methane of all season with these funny and dangerous little plots he had in his brilliant mind. I knew that methane would probably come back to bite it in the ass, and that’s for sure. And it was a funny day, guy. We had to be very careful that the pipe in my cheeks, and Jeffrey were super safe and I am still safe when I work. The waterfall team therefore did a great job with this.

I guess death was a mixture of certain practical effects as well as elements added in post-production. How do you act as if you burn from the inside?

It was incredible. The makeup team was phenomenal. I was in this makeup chair for hours and hours and hours to get different stages of burning makeup. When Bruegel came out of this planet, they had small pumps that would pump my face and these large balls in bags on which they had stuck and painted it on my face to give the impression that I was reducing with methane.

So it was a real deal. And when I was lying on the ground there in the cement, I mean, how do you die by methane? How do you stop breathing from methane or what does he do? Does this explode your face? So me and Mikey Satrazis, the director, let’s talk about it and they just let me go and do my thing. And I think what came out at the end was really dynamic and brutal, and I think it worked very well.

How was it on the set with Jeffrey and Gaius making the Negan range with you and Armstrong on your knees?

I didn’t like it. [Laughs] I didn’t like him at all. But I think, my boy, when you get a guy like Bruegel, and Armstrong by the way, surrounded by a henchman with rifles and tasers and baseball bats and masses and things like that, he always thinks he’s going to talk about it. And when he realizes that he can’t, that’s all. The ship has sailed and there is nothing left to do than die. And that’s what I tried to do and make it credible.

Boy, oh my boy, I arrived so much in Lib in this show. I mean, Eli’s writing was so brilliant and everyone loved him so much. I certainly did it. But when they hired me, they knew what they were going to get, and I left, and I think I also left for this scene. I don’t remember what I said. I can’t wait to see him again.

Bruegel was a different cat, just a different wavelength. Different city centers in New York, CEO of billionaire designer funds – a hole that comes out of its bunker and has this team. I called my gang the silk stockings. I don’t think it was used much in the show, but that’s good. They were my little silk stockings. They were so pretty and with all their armor all the time. And we were the largest gang in the city and we were different for this show. So I will never forget to do it.

You have just mentioned Bruegel’s past. To what extent did you think of his pre-apocalyptic background in terms of his life before everything went to hell?

I thought about it a lot. I have read a few books on this guy of hedge funds and what it means to lift and lie for so much money that you don’t even know what to do with this money. At the end of the day, the money of others that grows up and grew up and grows, and if you succeed, which I believe that Bruegel was probably, he had illustrations in the Wang wing.

He loved history. He lives at the Met, as you know. I was very lucky to be able to go before starting the shooting, and they really left me hanging out after the hours and feeling and absorbing it. And this painting by George Washington crossing Delaware is obviously five times the size as it was in our show, but the replica of the show I thought seemed incredible. So Bruegel is just an accomplice, brilliant, funny, sarcastic and loose stitching. And when you need someone like that, yes, call Kim Coates!

I guess they just didn’t have time with only eight episodes, but I would have liked we could see an episode of flashback with the pre-apocalypse version of Bruegel.

It’s so smart, Dalton, because that’s what people say. And, of course, you don’t take time for that because you try to throw it, then you have your tracks, and then you invited me with an advance in the show. And then where are we going to film it? And we are not going to Jersey this year. We are going to go to Boston. You have to prepare it all. There is no time, unless we have done 13 or 14 episodes, so you might be able to immerse yourself in something like that.

As we did In the sons of anarchyRIGHT? The third season of SonWe went to Ireland. No one thought we were really going to go to Ireland, but we certainly did not go before this third season when we knew that the show was already a massive success. But yes, it would have been funny to see Bruegel strut Manhattan.

You knew it came all the time, but is it difficult to say goodbye to a character like this now that everything is done?

No, not really. I will never forget Primordial American. I will never forget to play this guy. I will never forget to play Bruegel or Tig Trager – never forget. Double in the south in Atlanta with Tommy Schulman, Oscars winner for Society of dead poetsLili Simmons – I will never forget them. So I think that my experiences, they were certainly good, but no.

I will Miss not to see Jeffrey and Lauren and the team because it was special. But I think it helps to know that you are going to go at the end of the season before you start. You know what I mean? You can put it in a part of the library you know you are going to go. So, let’s take advantage of it along the way and create a real high-time art, hopefully, for people. And I think we did it. I really do it.

This interview has been modified for duration and clarity.

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