The Walking Dead Casts Negan's Wife, Lucille

Due to the rather exhausting news cycle of this election week, we're playing some catch-up here as this item broke a few days ago. It being reported that The Walking Dead has cast the role of Negan's late wife, Lucille. Yes, that Lucille. The one Negan named his famous barbed-wire baseball bat after. But that's not the only fun element of this particular casting. Per ComicBook.com, Jeffrey Dean Morgan's real life wife, actress Hilarie Burton, will be playing Lucille. The two of them host AMC's Friday Night in With the Morgans, based out of their upstate New York farm, which began during quarantine back in April.

Been pretty hard to keep this a secret. But I love working with @JDMorgan . I love watching him become #Negan and take on that swagger. And I love the @TheWalkingDead family. They’ve been a part of our family for ages and I’m so grateful for their kindness. Xoxo #hereslucille https://t.co/9tRh7NB8WY

— Hilarie Burton Morgan (@HilarieBurton) November 3, 2020

This also means...fans are finally getting a Negan flashback! Though, at this point, we don't know it'll be an entire episode focused on Negan's past or if Lucille will just be in a handful of flashbacks. We do know, however, that Burton's Lucille will featured in one of the extra six Season 10 episodes AMC ordered for early 2021. Little is known about Lucille on the show except that, prior to the zompocalpyse, she was dying from cancer and that she actually passed away from the disease and not due to the undead outbreak. Burton, a former MTV TRL host, is known for One Tree Hill and, more recently, Fox's Lethal Weapon and NBC's Council of Dads. Back in September, AMC announced that The Walking Dead is ending after Season 11 and that Season 11 will consist of 24 episodes (which will air over the course of two years, concluding in 2022). [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/07/24/the-walking-dead-cast-react-to-season-10-finale-fan-predictions"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

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