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The action sequences deal with survivors fighting the Infected, which most people would call zombies. How did you deal with those battle scenes?
We werent allowed to say the Z word on set. It was like a banned word. They were the Infected. We werent a zombie show. Of course, theres tension building and jump scares but the shows really about our characters; The Infected are an obstacle they have to deal with. For example in Episode Three, Ellie hears an Infected trapped under some rubble. Initially, shes scared, but then you see her grow in confidence, cutting open the Infected and looking at the fibers. Through that interest, you see what the Infected means in Ellies own life. She was born into this world thats completely gone to hell because of this thing and now, maybe she has inside her a solution to this thing. We see Bellas performance as she goes from wonder to hate and you start to think, wow what is this girl capable of? Theres darkness and anger in there. So [even in scenes featuring the Infected], its character first and then just tell the story.