Lauren Cohan has opened up about how her "The Walking Dead" character, Maggie, has changed since her first appearance in the show.
Maggie, who is half-sister of Beth (Emily Kinney) and wife of Glenn (Steven Yeun), was introduced in the second episode of the show's Season 2 titled "Bloodletting." In her debut episode, Maggie volunteered to find Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) after Rick (Andrew Lincoln) came running towards their farm house with injured Carl (Chandler Riggs) in his hands. She boldly headed into the woods on horseback and convinced Lori to come with her - that was after she first saved Andrea (Laurie Holden) from being bitten by a walker.
She was already tough from the very beginning and she is just as tough now, if not even more, according to Examiner.
"I feel like in the beginning we always knew that Maggie was a physically strong person," Cohan told Entertainment Weekly. "She's a farm girl. She would have been doing work on the farm."
"But where we've gotten to by season 5 now is that she is so dependent on that physical strength. Like that's all she is, almost," added the 32-year-old American-born British actress. "They live a pretty barbaric life. She's definitely still a sensitive vulnerable person, but I feel like we're kind of all animals now."
While details about what is actually in store for Maggie in Season 5 is being kept under wraps, rumors have it that she will give birth to a child with Glenn sometime in the future.
The speculation broke right after the release of a "Walking Dead" comic book cover, where Maggie was holding a baby in her arms.
When asked at Fan Expo Canada in Toronto last August if she thinks her character in the TV adaptation will give birth to a child at some point, Lauren laughed, according to Comic Book Resources, and said: "I don't read the comics that far [in advance], so don't spoil it."
"I actually intentionally don't," she said. "I read the comic books up until we got to the prison, and so many things differ with the characters. [If you read the comics,] you kind of get hooked on the storylines, or excited about the storylines, and you don't really think too much about it."
"There are probably a lot of people who do read the comics," Cohan continued. "I think you can appreciate how the show diverts from the comics, because it keeps us surprised. I know our writers like to mix it up. Sometimes you'll see things happening to one character in the comic that will end up happening to somebody else on the show. That helps keep it fresh on a lot of levels -- fresh, when you're talking about 'The Walking Dead.'"
"The Walking Dead" Season 5 premieres on Oct. 12, 9 p.m. on AMC.