Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays Negan in The Walking Dead, recently revealed that he sustained injuries to both of his feet while filming the show’s final season.
The actor revealed that he broke both feet on set, but due to commitments, he couldn’t have surgery on them. With Morgan now filming The Walking Dead spin-off Dead City, it doesn’t appear that the injuries have stopped him from pushing forward.
Morgan initially mentioned breaking his foot back in March while in the middle of filming, and in a recent interview with Insider, the actor elaborated on exactly what happened. He also explained that he ended up with a hairline fracture on both feet and that his schedule just couldn’t fit in surgery to repair them.
“I think I had, honestly, just shoes that weren’t very good and just jumping, landing a few times,” he said. “It started off as kind of nothing, a hairline fracture. And then it got worse. The bones in my heel aren’t smooth anymore. I was gonna have surgery in between the series and the new show [Dead City]. And I had like three months and I went to Spain to do a commercial. And I had a… [hernia], that happened to me. So I had to have surgery on that, and I’m like, ‘F—k it. My foot’s gonna have to survive.'”
The injury was not the first time Morgan had found himself nursing wounds during his stint on The Walking Dead, having had his nose broken by Andrew Lincoln while filming a season 8 episode.
At the time, Morgan said that Lincoln was meant to pull a punch but didn’t, but they completed filming their scenes. It turned out that Morgan didn’t need surgery after that injury.
The recent series finale of The Walking Dead brought the long-running zombie show to a close, with many of the storylines being closed off sufficiently. Next year, new shows pick up the threads left hanging as the credits rolled, following Negan, Maggie, Daryl, Rick and Michonne in their new adventures.
