{"id":70805,"date":"2015-01-14T11:25:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T11:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=70805"},"modified":"2015-01-14T14:46:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:46:49","slug":"the-walking-deads-chad-coleman-reveals-tyreese-backstory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-walking-deads-chad-coleman-reveals-tyreese-backstory\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Dead’s Chad Coleman reveals Tyreese backstory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Where did I come from? Where am I going?’ muses Tyreese. ‘We are alone in the universe.’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Walking Dead<\/strong> <\/em>survivors are always looking towards the future, but the show\u00a0has also\u00a0confirmed a few things about the past: we know Rick was a cop (obviously), we know Michonne was a mother and we know now-badass Carol used to be her husband’s punching bag. Even new (and dead) characters like Bob, the alcoholic ex-army medic, have backstories.<\/p>\n

But Tyreese (Chad L Coleman) and his sister Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) are still mostly blank slates as far as their pre-apocalypse lives are concerned. Do we even know their last names?<\/p>\n

Coleman has had a few seasons to think on it.\u00a0Talking to SciFiNow before the conclusion of Season 5, he divulges his Tyreese head-canon.<\/p>\n

“He was an ex-NFL football player, so that\u2019s what he did,” Coleman tells us. “He\u2019s the type of guy who had a coach or a father who wasn\u2019t larger than life but was a man of great character and integrity and instilled a lot of wonderful qualities in him about what it means to be a human being and what it means to be a man.<\/p>\n

“He and his sister are tight and he’s a very protective guy.”<\/p>\n

Seeing as the head-canon came from the actor’s mouth, we’re upgrading it to show canon and sticking with it.<\/p>\n