Nicotero on the European aesthetics that infuse every frame of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
“There is something romantic about the European flair. We had alternating directors of photography: Tommaso Fiorilli was our first, and then Michel Amathieu in the second block. There was a lot of candlelight. There was a lot of soft focus. There was a lot of ethereal feeling with the way that things were shot with a lot of depth of field. The camera moves a lot. I don’t think they ever set up a dolly track once – it was always Steadicam. There is a fluidity and a graceful element to it that makes the show feel distinctly unlike something we’ve seen before.”
FOR 11 YEARS, ACROSS 177 episodes, AMC’s TV adaptation of Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s The Walking Dead comic books told just about every kind of post-apocalyptic story you could imagine, while showing the progression of its eclectic set of characters. The survival of sheriff ’s deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and those closest to him was the show’s central focus, but it took almost no time for many viewers to zero in on the character of Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) as their favourite.