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“It Was About My Relationship With Myself”: Lauren Cohan Reflects on Stepping Back From ‘The Walking Dead’ Due to Payment Discrepancies
Britta DeVore & Perri Nemiroff   May 18, 2025
https://collider.com/the-walking-dead-lauren-cohan-payment-departure-explained/ 

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... So, when Cohan parted ways with the production after the first few episodes of the ninth season, fans were in shock. Eventually, it came out that her departure was related to payment discrepancies — a feeling that women in Hollywood (and so many other industries) know all too well.
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“When I left the show, because we were at an impasse, I got 13 offers to lead my own show. And I don’t say that to gloat, I just say that because it gave me faith. There will always be undulations in popularity or reasons that you do and don’t get jobs, and I experience that all the time. But it was a great moment because I went and I met so many amazing creators and producers and writers that I was so excited to go do stuff with, and I felt so invigorated. It was twofold, too, because I knew I’d done the show for a long time, and I knew it was healthy for me to go do something else.”
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“Then, when I went back, it was because it was healthy for me to go back at that moment. When I went to do Whiskey Cavalier, which was such an incredible experience and so sad that the show didn’t get to go for longer, I had talked to Angela Kang, who was our showrunner on The Walking Dead in those years, and she was like, ‘Okay, how do we make this work? If you shoot that show, you come back part time and do this thing…’”
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“Then Angela was also really encouraging and supportive of me directing. She was one of the first people that was really supportive of that. It was a really good shift. I think that I sort of sometimes just quietly go through things, and then there’s a moment, and I’m like, ‘Well, what am I going to do? Am I going to meet the moment?’ And I don’t do that unless it’s time, and it was time. So, that was a good experience on that show. That was not about the show at all. It was about my relationship with myself.”

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Lauren Cohan was interviewed by Tommy DiDario on his I've Never Said This Before with Tommy DiDario podcast (go to link if you want to listen to interview or read transcript)...

Lauren Cohan of The Walking Dead/Dead City
June 9, 2025
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-ive-never-said-this-befor-117748070/episode/lauren-cohan-of-the-walking-deaddead-280065338/ 

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This week, Tommy is joined by actress Lauren Cohan who you know and love from starring in one of the most watched drama series in the history of television, THE WALKING DEAD. Lauren now stars in the spin-off series, THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY. Season 2 is out now and Lauren continues to light up the screen playing the strong, resilient, and very layered character, Maggie Greene. Today, Lauren opens up about why she has wanted to continue playing Maggie for over a decade, how the darkness of THE WALKING DEAD can sometimes affect her, what it was like losing her on-screen partner in that traumatic scene, how her own spin-off came to be, the most surprising thing about working with co-star Jeffrey Dean Morgan, what exploring that relationship has been like, making her directorial debut this season, if she ever thought about leaving the franchise, what she thinks of the future of THE WALKING DEAD franchise, if she thinks her character will ever die, how much of the season’s plot she knows before production begins, if there was ever a storyline for Maggie she did not agree with, how she navigates imposter syndrome, why she is trying to slow down when she can, the journey of learning how to be kind to herself, why sharing life with the people who matter to you is so important, and so much more. 

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