Morrissey On The Governor

Earlier this week, David Morrissey reaffirmed his intentions to stick around as The Governor on AMC's The Walking Dead for as long as possible.

He obviously had to keep quiet up until then, as his return last weekend was supposed to be a surprise. But now that he's well and truly back on our screens, you can't shut him up about the show.

Now he's been talking to Entertainment Weekly about what is to come for the character:

"He's looking for safety, and the main thing for the prison is it's the safe place to be," he said. "It's the alternative of our world in the zombie apocalypse.

"The prison is a place of protection, not a place of incarceration, so that's why he's looking at it. He's looking at the building, I would suggest, rather than the people in it. Although the people in it are an inconvenience, because they're in his way of getting safety. But it's more about the building than the people."

"He is a man who is aware of himself now. I think the Governor at the beginning of season three was a man who was building a future. He had a future for Woodbury."

Morrissey continued: "He had a plan for Woodbury. And those plans get smashed. And certainly the future for his daughter and any sort of cure experiment that he and Milton were exploring - that's out the window now. We leave him with himself and his two henchmen - he's lost everything. So he is a man that has lost everything.

"And I think what we see coming up is how he deals with that loss. He's a dangerous man still and he knows how dangerous he is. He knows what he's capable of and that is a very dangerous thing. And like I said, it's about whether he embraces that man and how dangerous he is, or whether he fights him."

The actor concluded: "That's the question coming in - which character is he happy to be? Which character is he trying to be? We see him at the end of episode 5 and he's standing outside that prison and looking at that prison and we don't know whether he's come in peace or come in war."

Though we comic fans can guess...

"We don't know that yet. So we have to wait for that reveal in the upcoming episodes. He might have had an about face, but we don't know. He's a man who recognizes his own capabilities. That is fair to say."

The Walking Dead airs on AMC on Sunday nights in the US, and on FOX on Friday nights in the UK.