David Morrissey - The Governor on zombie drama The Walking Dead - received a true villain's welcome at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego. "Ten thousand people started booing me and I just loved it," the Liverpool-born actor says on the line from London.

"I walked to the front of the stage and did a Liam Gallagher pose in the sense of 'bring it on!' and the boos went higher and higher. I've never been booed with such affection in my life."



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The 49-year-old was well-known in Britain long before The Walking Dead, starring in quality dramas including State of Play, Blackpool, The Deal and Nowhere Boy. There was also a strange nine-month period where he was expected to take over as Doctor Who from David Tennant, after he played "The Next Doctor" in the 2008 Christmas special.
Showrunner Russell T Davies asked Morrissey if he wouldn't mind playing along…
"For nine months my kids kept coming up to me saying, 'Are you the next Doctor Who?' and I had to say, 'I can't tell you,' " he says with a laugh. "People were just obsessed with it, in a way that was very good groundwork for the obsession on The Walking Dead - it made me realise what a great fanbase can do. I rode that one."
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"Here in the UK it's on one level, I think people have known me for a long time from various things, but in America it's very full on, it's the biggest show in America so of course people (gather) when you're walking down the street," he says. "But I think the eye patch helps - it does now and then give me about 100 yards safety without the eye patch!"

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