10 Actors Who FREAKED OUT When Their TV Character Died
8. Laurie Holden "Felt Like She Got Shot" - The Walking Dead
According to Laurie Holden, when she initially signed up to play Andrea in The Walking Dead, she had an eight-year deal which would've eventually made her one of the show's longest-tenured characters.
And so, it was quite the surprise to Holden when she was suddenly killed off in just season three.
Holden, believing her job to be secure for the next five years, was even in the process of buying a house in Atlanta - where the show is filmed - when she got the call that Andrea was being axed. She said of the experience:
"Well I had an eight-year deal, I was supposed to be there until the end. I was supposed to end up with Rick. I was supposed to save Woodbury on a horse, and I was buying a house in Atlanta. I got the call at 10 o' clock the night before, while I was shooting, from the showrunner who is no longer a part of The Walking Dead, saying that they couldn't write the episode and that he was killing my character. So we all got the script, everybody on the set was sobbing. I felt like I got shot. None of it was supposed to happen the way it did."
Holden added that she felt it was a "mistake" to deviate from Andrea's arc in the comics, feeling that having her enter a relationship with the villainous Governor (David Morrissey) was "complete and utter nonsense."
Though she was understandably upset at having her life unexpectedly uprooted in the middle of a lucrative gig, Holden is at least more pragmatic about Andrea's demise these days:
"It wasn't the way that I wanted but I loved the way I went out."