The Walking Dead Season 5 Spoilers: Andrew J. West Reveals Some Terminus Secrets About Gareth

Andrew J. West has joined the cast of Season 5 of The Walking Dead as Gareth, the presumed leader of Terminus. In an interview with EW.com, the actor discussed some of what fans can expect in the fifth season.

Firstly, he talked at great length about how he views Gareth as a character.

"I think he's definitely a practical guy. And I think he's a guy who is concerned with surviving. He's very much concerned with figuring out a way to live in the new world. What's interesting about the character, too, is that Gareth isn't really the Governor. Really he's more like Rick or even Glenn in a lot of ways. He's a guy who's searching and struggling for a new way to exist, because he has acknowledged and accepted that the old way just doesn't work anymore. Society is different now. The world is different now. And the old rules just need to be reexamined. And he's willing to do that. And I think that's where the leader qualities come in. He is willing to sort of abandon certain ideas about the way the world used to be and find what the world needs to be now. And he's sort of a strong-willed guy, too.

"So, to answer your question, I don't think of him as a bad guy. And really, when you're playing a character, you can't really think of them as a bad guy. Even the Governor, for instance - a lot of people would definitely say 'The Governor is the bad guy of season 3 and season 4,' or whatever. I've never talked to David Morrissey about this or anything like that, but I would imagine that he wouldn't want to go into those scenes thinking 'I'm the bad guy.' You want to go into scenes thinking not that you're the good guy or the bad guy, but that you've got a job to do.

"And I'm not talking about as an actor, I'm talking about as the character. The character has something that they need to accomplish. And no one's just trying to be evil, or walking around saying, 'I'm just trying to do good.' Everybody, of course, wants to believe that they're doing good, but you're thinking about what it is that you're trying to accomplish. And that's what I love about Gareth. He's got things that he's after. He's got things that he's trying to accomplish and things that he's trying to do. That's the main thing. And what's so cool about the way that the relationship between him and Rick is set off in the finale, is that we immediately see some tension between them because you see two characters who are both strong-willed, and who both want to survive, and who have histories and ideas about the best way to do that. And right off the bat in that finale, they seem to sort of be at odds with one another. So I think it's going to be really interesting to see how that relationship continues to play out when the new season starts."

He also discussed how Gareth views Rick (Andrew Lincoln).

"I think he probably sees Rick in a lot of ways as a kindred spirit. Obviously, right off the bat he identifies him as the ringleader. It's kind of the nickname that he gives Rick in the finale. And right away he can tell that this guy's tough, that he's survived and that he knows how to survive. And that he is a really strong-willed guy. And I believe that Gareth respects that kind of person. So yeah, I think that's generally how Gareth views Rick when he meets him in the finale. Even after the brief encounters that they have."

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