Norman Reedus on how long he sees himself playing Daryl Dixon and what it is about The Walking Dead spinoff series that keeps him coming back.

With only a little more than two months to go until AMC’s Norman Reedus (Daryl) and Melissa McBride (Carol)-starring The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol makes its way onto our screens (Sunday, September 29th, to be precise) and rumblings about a third and fourth season already in play, it doesn’t appear that Reedus will be departing the TWD Universe anytime soon. But how long does he see himself playing the iconic character? In the past, Reedus has shared that he could see himself playing the character for the rest of his career as long as the quality of the storylines remains high and there’s a legitimate reason for Daryl to continue. Speaking with Mr. Feelgood in support of his film The Bikeriders, Reedus now has a number in mind – while also sharing what it is about the spinoff series that keeps him coming back.

“I think maybe six or seven more years. The ‘Daryl Dixon’ spin-off has given me an opportunity to take the show in a direction that’s different to the original show. I didn’t want to make the same show again in a different location. I wanted to reinvent it. And they let me, with the other like-minded people involved, invent something new. So it feels fresh to me. It’s in a different language. It’s shot a different way. It’s not really about zombies, and who’s going to get bit this week, it’s completely different. So, as long as I keep reinventing it, it’s fun,” Reedus shared.

Having the series take place overseas and uniquely represent the country that they’re filming in are important factors for Reedus. “We went to Paris, and we didn’t want to make an American show and drop it in a European country, not have it reflect anything of the place that we were filming it at. So we wanted the French people to look at it and feel like it was their show, too. And it worked. French people love the show. So I’m excited for them to see season two,” Reedus added.

Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon – The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon _ Season 2 – Photo Credit: Emmanuel Guimier/AMC

During the first season of AMC & AMC+’s The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Daryl (Reedus) washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan. The new season picks up where the first season left off, following Daryl and Carol (McBride) as they both confront old demons while she fights to find her friend and he struggles with his decision to stay in France, causing tension at the Nest. Additionally, Genet’s (Anne Charrier) movement builds momentum, setting Pouvoir on a violent collision course with the Union of Hope in the fight for France’s future.

The second season stars Reedus, McBride, Charrier, Clémence Poésy, Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, Laika Blanc Francard, Romain Levi & Eriq Ebouaney. Back in November 2023, we learned that Manish Dayal (The Resident) had been cast as Ash, an engineer from Boston who moved to the family weekend house in Maine after the onset of the apocalypse. Ash lives by a strict schedule based mostly around his daily flights in a retrofitted single-engine plane and mysterious visitations to his backyard greenhouse. Showrunner David Zabel, Scott M. Gimple, Greg Nicotero, Angela Kang, Brian Bockrath, Daniel Percival, Jason Richman, and Steve Squillante join Reedus & McBride as executive producers.