[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 15, “Amina.”]
Just as Fear the Walking Dead is welcoming back Kim Dickens as Madison Clark, the AMC drama said goodbye to another Clark.
The May 29 episode, “Amina,” marked Alycia Debnam-Carey’s last, and following its airing, the actress posted a long farewell on Instagram about “the end of an extraordinary and life changing journey of playing Alicia Clark.”
The show “has gifted me so much,” she wrote. “It has been the most extraordinary training ground as an actor where I’ve been given the chance to grow and learn. I’ve had the honour of working with so many inspiring and talented people. It provided new opportunities, such as directing and it has bonded me to such incredible fans that have supported me along the way.” The star made her directorial debut with the Season 7 episode, “Ofelia.”
Debnam-Carey was with the show from the beginning, and her exit came in its 100th episode. “I decided it was time for me to move on as an actor and as a person,” she explained. “As is the nature of our jobs I needed to seek out new challenges, new opportunities and carve out a new chapter for myself. I have been so lucky to be a part of something so awesome for so long but I hope you can understand and respect my choice to further expand and grow. I wouldn’t be here without you all and I am so grateful.”
She noted that she spoke with showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss “a lot … over the years … and I think we found a fitting way to conclude Alicia’s story. It is beautiful, hopeful and elusive.” The episode ended with what looked like Alicia’s death, only for her to wake up, apparently healed after being bitten.
Read Debnam-Carey’s full statement below.
Debnam-Carey’s exit shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, given that fans had to be wondering if it was coming after she joined the cast of Hulu‘s Saint X.
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