The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln Talks About "Heapsters" Or "Kraftwerk"

TV shows are really something epic. Not only they entertain us but also they give us stories that make us reflect, laugh, cry and even that bring us together. As they make us feel related to them or simply lead to us making new friends.

One of the most epic TV shows of recent times is “The Walking Dead.” Revealing to us what would happen if a zombie apocalypse took place. For many a useful surviving guide/documentary. Since it sets us in the struggle of the characters to get resources and really of how to survive.

The Walking Dead’s new episode.

On the Sunday’s new episode of “The Walking Dead,” the creators of the series introduced to us a new community and location. Adding a group of stoic scavengers who live in a Mad Max style junkyard and have regressed into a primitive way of language.

The leader of this scavenger society is Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh), who agrees on an awkward alliance with Rick (Andrew Lincoln). After he passed their strength test. By defeating a nightmare looking evolved walker, and by agreeing to give them food and guns in exchange for their help to fight against the Saviors.

New group new questions.

Since this new and odd group has been added to the show there are new things to learn, and obviously, more questions about them. To the point even itself Andrew Lincoln isn’t able to answer too many of them. Since Scott Gimple, the executive producer of the show keeps him in the dark about many secrets of the series. Including some key information about this new “tribe.”

They don’t even have an official name. But Lincoln gave us a provisional name by telling us how they call this new folk on set. “We called it “the Heapsters.” Not the hipsters, the Heapsters. Or as I liked to call them, “Kraftwerk,” because I felt like I was in some 1980s Kraftwerk video.”

The only thing we know.

Of the few things, Andrew Lincoln could confirm about this new episode is the influence of Mad Max. Due to the fact that the production designer Grace Walker, has worked on the post-apocalyptic action franchise before. Also, there was a big recognition to makeup special effects artist Gino Crognale, did and played the Pinhead Walker.

As Lincoln said “It got a round of applause from the set. Gino, who’s one of the best makeup guys in the business, he’s been working on the show since day one, he had to get into the suit, bless him, and he spent a full day getting beaten up and decapitated by me. It takes a certain kind of man to be able to put up with that pain.”