Most people are petrified by horror movies, but they are those who find scary movies - especially if the storyline is great - exciting and entertaining.
So If you’re looking for a show to binge-watch this winter, look no further.
All 10 seasons of the multi-award-winning show, “The Walking Dead” are now available for streaming on Showmax.
Based on Robert Kirkman’s hit comics, “The Walking Dead” is the definitive zombie show, having won 78 awards globally, including Emmys, People’s Choice and Critics Choice awards.
The show is entertaining and has a great storyline that will leave you craving for more.
With that being said, the series suffered a huge blow last year when one of its main actresses, Danai Gurira announced that she was leaving after 8 seasons .
“The Walking Dead” itself will end in season 11, although there are plans for an anthology series, “Tales of The Walking Dead”, and for a Daryl Dixon-Carol Peletier series starring Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride.
Here are 8 cool fact you need to know about Gurira.
She’s one of the few to survive eight seasons of The Walking Dead
If you still use Sean Bean in Game of Thrones S1 as your ultimate example of ‘How could they kill our favourite character?’ then you haven’t been watching The Walking Dead, where the swarming undead are often far less dangerous than the remaining living.
Michonne has survived eight seasons of The Walking Dead: only three other cast members can claim the same or better: Norman Reedus (Daryl), Melissa McBride (Carol) and Lauren Cohan (Maggie).
She’s Zimbabwean-American, but would choose Iowa if there was a zombie apocalypse
She’s Zimbabwean-American, but would choose Iowa if there was a zombie apocalypse
Danai was born in Grinnell, Iowa, to Zimbabweans Josephine and Roger Gurira.
When she was five, the family moved back to post-independence Zimbabwe, where she grew up in the capital, Harare.
Gurira later returned to the United States, where she studied social psychology at Macalester College, receiving her Masters of Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
She told Stephen Colbert that if she had to choose between Iowa or Harare during a zombie apocalypse, she’d pick Grinnell.
“Where I was born was so underpopulated, it was such a tiny town, I think it might be my best bet. [There] was a lot of corn - I could hide in the corn stalks.”
Danai smiles a lot more than Michonne
Michonne doesn’t smile much on The Walking Dead. When Conan pointed out that Danai smiles a lot more in real life, she agreed.
“I think I have a lot more to smile about. Playing her actually makes me smile more, because I can go home and turn on the faucet and hot water comes out, and there’s food in my fridge, and my car has gas and I know how to get more gas.”
Which is part of why The Walking Dead had a surge of interest at the start of the pandemic, landing on Parrot Analytics’ list of the 10 most streamed shows in the first two months of the pandemic.
There’s something strangely uplifting about watching the show and realising that, even during a pandemic, things can get so much worse, and that people will still want to keep fighting to stay alive.
Spoiler alert - she’s leaving The Walking Dead this season
No, we’re not saying whether she’s leaving the show dead or alive. But we will say Rick Grimes may not be dead after all, since there are plans for him to headline a movie spinoff.
So, we live in hope for a world where cinemas actually open again, so ‘Richonne’ may live on on the big screen...
The Walking Dead itself will end in Season 11, although there are plans for an anthology series, Tales of The Walking Dead, and for a Daryl Dixon-Carol Peletier series starring Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride.
Danai was Tupac Shakur’s mother
Not really - just on film. Danai was nominated for an NAACP Image Award as Tupac Shakur’s mother in All Eyez on Me.
Other memorable roles include her Black Reel-winning performance as Nigerian-American Adenike in Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George and as Senegalese immigrant Zainab in the Oscar-nominated The Visitor.
She’s an activist at heart
Remember when Michonne told Carl, “I can’t stop you, but you can’t stop me from helping you”?
Danai seems to have a similar attitude in real life. She’s the founder of LOGpledge.org (Love Our Girls), an awareness-building campaign focused on the plights of women and girls around the globe.
She serves as an ambassador for Bono’s ONE campaign and, in December 2018, she was named a Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women, supporting its mandate of gender equality and women’s rights.
She’s also the co-founder of Almasi Arts, which works to professionalise the dramatic arts industry in Zimbabwe through education, facilitation and collaboration with professional American dramatic artists and artistic institutions.
She’s a Tony-nominated playwright
Danai is also the playwright of Eclipsed, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play and won Best Costume Design.
Set in war-torn Liberia, Eclipsed starred Kenyan Lupita Nyong’o, among others, and was directed by South African Liesl Tommy - becoming the first play to premiere on Broadway with an all-female and all-Black cast and creative team.
Danai has also won the Sam Norkin Award, a Whiting Award, and an Obie Award, among other theatre honours.
Catch Gurira as Michonne for the last time in “The Walking Dead” on Showmax.
