On Sunday at Harrisburg Comic Con Scoop talked to actor Steve Coulter about conventions, The Walking Dead, and his upcoming projects.

Scoop: Are you having a good time this weekend?
Steve Coulter (SC): I’m doing great, it’s been a lot of fun. People are very nice.

Scoop: Have you had fun with the fans?
SC: What’s really fun is the kids. Some of the kids don’t know who you are. They go, “Who are you?” I’ve gotten to hold a three-month-old baby, who I know did not know who I was. It’s funny because sometimes people know me from The Walking Dead, but we have these pictures laid out on the table and they go, “Oh, wait a minute, you’re that guy? Are you that guy?” [nods] “Yeah, I’m that guy. I think I am.”

Scoop: Do people want to talk about specific movies or shows?
SC: They’ll want to know, for example, how I died in The Walking Dead, how did they do that. If it’s questions about The Conjuring, they’ll want to know is it scary making a scary movie. It’s actually not, and I think it’s because it’s so...the story’s so dense that it’s pretty light shooting it. Stuff like that. Or they’ll want to know about a certain moment in the film, like “How did you guys do that?”

Scoop: You’ve had several notable roles in horror. Is that a genre you enjoy working in?
SC: Nothing against scary movies, but I don’t like them, because they’re scary. We want to see – I hadn’t seen The Conjuring 2 until last night, and I jumped in my seat like six times and I was like, “Oh man. Oh no, oh no, no, no.” So, I don’t like the genre only because it scares me and I sort of fell into it because of James Wan, I’ve done, like, five movies with him. So, I don’t care for the genre, only because I think it’s great, but it scares the heck out of me.

Scoop: What are you working on now?
SC: I’m about to do a new Hank Azaria TV series, a comedy, so there’s no zombies or ghosts. I have a Tom Cruise movie I did called, Mena, which comes out in January. And a Michael Keaton movie called The Founder, which comes out in August, it’s about Ray Kroc, who founded McDonald’s.

Scoop: Alexandria and your character were different on the show than in the comic. Did that freedom help your performance?
SC: I did research the comics to see if there was anything I could take from it and there wasn’t a lot. They are similar, even though I was Regina in the comic book, and I should’ve known I was going to die because in the comic it’s very similar to how she dies. But, I naively did not realize, because I knew Pete was going to die, so if Pete’s going to die that means I have to die. [laughs] I think I was just living in denial for a while. You want to get the sense of that because you want to honor [the comic] if there’s something you can use or something you can avoid. The main thing I got was the clearheadedness, he was sort of the voice of reason.

Scoop: I thought they were both really cool characters, especially since there are so many nasty people in that show. It was fun to see these people who, I felt like, were sweet.
SC: I was a big, big fan of the show – I watched it from the beginning. When I got the role, I was very excited, but I was nervous, because this was my favorite show. But as an actor, Reg is so calm and relaxed and confident, so to get into character I just had to be relaxed, which really helped. That was kind of fun to play. Like you said, they are sweet, they’re kind, they’re not – at least Reg – was not conflicted. He was very wise. It was fun to play someone who was calm.”

Scoop: I loved the moment when Reg was talking to Noah – things were looking up and then what happened to Noah…
SC: When I read that script and I saw that scene is at the beginning of the script I thought, “Oh great, this is going to be a nice relationship.” Of course, later on in the script when Noah is in the revolving door I was like, “Ooooh, man!” But that kind of scene is rare for The Walking Dead. It was a very calm, sweet positive scene. A lot of people said that when they saw that scene they knew Noah was going to die and they also thought Reg would probably die.

Scoop: Yeah, that’s true. Do you have more cons coming up this summer?
SC: Not this summer. I’ve done a bunch, I’ve been in England, Canada – so I’m actually looking forward to being home for a while, which will be nice. But, I do like traveling and meeting people, but I miss my family.