TheWalkingDead showrunner shares an intimate, inside look at the first 'Richonne' love scene between Rick Grimes and Michonne:
✖ The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang reveals an intimate inside look at the romance that blossomed between Rick Grimes and Michonne in Season 6 episode"The Next World." Kang, at the time a writer and producer under then-showrunner Scott Gimple, took to Twitter to share behind-the-scenes intel and the original scripted version of the episode co-written by Corey Reed.
3/ We rarely write romance scenes on TWD so here is me with my fan fic author hat on. pic.twitter.com/VJiWtuJup5 Kang then shared the final production draft version with revisions from Gimple, the steamy Michonne and Rick kiss lingering as"hands pull each other closer, the kiss becoming more passionate, urgent, like they're getting away from something. Getting away with something."
"The Next World" ends with Rick and Michonne in bed together, their postcoital consummation interrupted by Jesus. In 2016, Lincoln said he and Gurira"campaigned" for the subsequent nude scene showing Rick and Michonne bare from behind.