Samantha Morton didn't watch The Walking Dead before her new role "came out of the blue"

Entertainment Weekly

"I have to say, I didn’t know anything other than I’d seen billboards for it," the actress says in her first interview about her AMC role. "I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere in England in a national park, so there’s no advertising allowed in the national park. You can’t put up posters there, but I’d seen them on the freeway and stuff like that. And I was a huge fan of Andrew Lincoln, and I knew that a lot of actors that I’d admired had gone to America to be in this show. So I knew about it, but on the farm, I didn’t have television or anything like that. I have a film projector, so I sit almost outside of society a little bit. So I hadn’t seen it, but I knew of it."