It Sounds Like Chandler Riggs Was Fired From The Walking Dead, and We Don’t Know Why

Author: Amanda Bell / Source: POPSUGAR Entertainment

Considering he hasn’t yet been killed off in the comics, a lot of fans of The Walking Dead have been pretty confused about why young Carl Grimes isn’t going to live to see the All-Out War with Negan and his Saviors come to a close (or witness how well his new pal Siddiq fits into the Alexandrian crew).

Taking his eye in gruesome fashion fits right in with the written storyline, so the fact that he’s still alive and kickin’ in Robert Kirkman’s version makes seeing him sport such a gnarly belly bite even more of a bummer.

So, why are we about to witness the slow-burning deterioration and demise of the kid who’s been the most important object of the Ricktatorship’s protection detail all this time?

Actor Chandler Riggs’s high school graduation and

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might seem like a logical reason he might ask for an out on his own, but the actor’s family cried foul on the producers’ decision to can him. Riggs’s father responded to the midseason finale shocker with a toothy Facebook comment that read: “Watching [Scott] Gimple fire my son two weeks before his 18th birthday after telling him they wanted him for the next 3 years was disappointing. I never trusted Gimple or AMC but Chandler did. I know how much it hurt him.”

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