Before you started working on The Walking Dead were you a fan of the show?
Sam Ewing: I was! I remember when I was in college, I would fire up Season 1 on my laptop in between work-study shifts. I thought it was so fresh to have a gritty zombie apocalypse show shot on 16mm film, with Bernard Herrmann-esque style string ensembles in the score. But I never would have imagined I’d be scoring it alongside Bear 10 years later. I’m very fortunate.