NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (UPI) — Louis Puech Scigliuzzi says his Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon character Laurent wasn’t trying to run away with the titular hero — or get him stay in France instead of going home to America — when he chased him down at the end of Season 1.
“I think Laurent just wanted to say ‘goodbye,'” Louis told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
“The meaning of him going to say goodbye to Daryl is really him saying: ‘I forgive you. You have to go to see your family and your loved ones,’ so I guess it’s just a goodbye and him accepting that [Daryl] has to go.”
Airing Sundays on AMC, Season 2 of the zombie-apocalypse drama picks up shortly after the events of Season 1.
Despite his intentions, Laurent’s naive actions caused the loyal and protective Daryl to miss his ship home, so he could escort Laurent all the way back to the Nest at Mont Saint-Michel, an isolated community in the French countryside, where his Aunt Isabelle (Clemence Posey) and other protectors were waiting for him.
While many of the characters on the show are either just trying to keep themselves alive or cynically attempting to seize power to control the unfortunate, Laurent deeply cares for and wants to help other people.
“Laurent is really such an empathetic little boy and he tries to spread love all around the world and, also, hope, which is a really important part to show because without hope, nothing would really happen and the Nest people would already have given up.”
The show also stars Melissa McBride, Laika Blanc Francard, Anne Charrier and Romain Levi.
