“It’s honestly a blast,” Sebastian actor Teo Rapp-Olsson says.
Though Rapp-Olsson has previously appeared in television projects like Blue Bloods, The Deuce, and Law & Order: SVU, Sebastian is his biggest TV role yet and he’s relishing the opportunity.
“Rarely do you get to go to work and be an asshole to people you work with and then they thank you for it.”
The appeal of Sebastian to Rapp-Olsson is partially that the character isn’t a preternatural monster but rather the logical result of a lifetime of privilege and coddling. Anybody could break bad like Sebastian, it just so happens that he was the one who got to be born into a powerful political family.
“I think there’s a human in there. For anyone in this kind of position I don’t think it’s as simple as ‘I’m just evil for the sake of being evil.’ I think there’s something behind that.”
Longtime fans of The Walking Dead comic know that even if Sebastian isn’t pure evil, he does commit one of the most unforgivable acts in the series’ run. Yes, incompetent lil’ Sebastian is somehow the man to finally take out uber-hero Rick Grimes. After Rick gently deposes Sebastian’s mom Pamela from her leadership position in The Commonwealth, the youth lashes out and shoots Rick in the gut. He immediately regrets his decision but the damage is already done. Rick Grimes is dead and The Walking Dead series at large ends two issues later.
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