Who is Pope in 'The Walking Dead'? A war veteran, Pope was spiritual after surviving a bombing through hiding inside a church. Read on for extra.
One of the most brutal villains to appear in The Walking Dead to date, Pope (Ritchie Coster) is on direction to establish himself as the face of cruelty. As the leader of the Reapers, a group of war veterans in a position to do no matter it takes to survive, Pope has already proven his true colors via burning a person alive. So, what is there to learn about Pope? Who plays the personality in The Walking Dead?
Pope is the specifically bloodthirsty leader of the Reapers in 'The Walking Dead.'
A soldier who managed to go back from Afghanistan, Pope now serves as the leader of the Reapers. He most probably become spiritual after taking refuge with a bunch of others at a church at the onset of the outbreak. While their setting had been razed to the flooring, Pope and his partners emerged from the church intact. The enjoy gave them a newfound sense of goal, consistent with Entertainment Weekly, main them to make the will of God their driver.
'Their mission now is to live on in any respect prices. And I believe they really feel as phase of their philosophy that they're in some ways selected. It's type of like non secular concepts gone to their maximum excessive," Angela Kang, the showrunner of The Walking Dead, said. "They're like locusts that will sort of burn through a space, and then as soon as an area is now not helpful to them, they will move on."
Unlike most religious believers, Pope uses fire to test the people around him. What's more, he isn't afraid to lean into his pyromaniac tendencies to dole out punishment either. In a Season 11 episode, he pushes Bossie into the fire and watches him die. Pope's righthand woman is no other than Leah (Lynn Collins), Daryl's old acquaintance and Dog's original owner.
Not one to trust even those closest to him, Pope tested Leah's and Daryl Dixon's (Norman Reedus) loyalty by locking them in a cabin and setting it on fire. Leah and Daryl got out just in time. The ordeal more or less doubled as Daryl's initiation ceremony, with Pope proclaiming that Daryl was "solid by way of fire, ordained by way of God" after he got out.
Ritchie Coster appeared in movies like 'Let Me In' before joining the cast of 'The Walking Dead.'
A mightily talented actor with considerable experience to boast, Ritchie starred in TV shows like Sex and the City and Jonny Zero in the past. Ritchie's latest projects include Shades of Blue, Happy!, and The Flight Attendant.
A graduate of London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Ritchie frequently appears in theater productions like Erica Schmidt's adaptation of Cyrano at the Daryl Roth Theatre, New York, and Sam Gold's Hamlet at The Public Theater, New York.
A long-time friend of The Walking Dead alum Lennie James, Ritchie was excited to play Pope.
"We wrote this personality and knew we wanted him to have those intense and unpredictable qualities," Angela Kang told Entertainment Weekly. "And then I spoke with [Ritchie] on the telephone expecting to do a complete gross sales pitch to him about why he should come do it, however he'd learn the script and liked it."
"And then he is in point of fact just right pals with Lennie James, who played Morgan," she added. "And so he had performed some digging, and Lennie obviously still has many friends on the show and used to be like, "It's such a great place for an actor. You'll have a great time." I was very grateful that Lennie laid that groundwork."
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