Hi there my name is Chris and my name is Jason and this is the talking dead a

podcast dedicated to the AMC TV series the Walking Dead I'm going to. Hello everybody welcome back to the talking dead this is episode

number 23 for September 20th 2010 thank you so much for joining us. It's wonderful to have you

back and we appreciate that you listen. On the program tonight we have a very

special guest. She is an actress from the Walking Dead TV show. You might know her or you will know her when the show is on as bicycle girl. We have Melissa Cowan.

Melissa, thanks so much for joining us.

You're welcome, thank you.

I meant to ask you, is it Cowan or Cohen?

Oh, Cowan, you said it correct.

Oh, great, good.

I didn't want to get it wrong.

So thanks so much for coming on.

We just hope to get a little bit of insight about you and your experience on the show and sort of what you went through while you were getting the makeup and on set and all that kind of stuff but before we do that why don't you tell us a little bit about about yourself and who you are how you got into the business and what kind of things you've been doing up until now.

I'm one 29 married with two kids and I've only been

acting for about a year and a half two years now and I was in HR for about five

and a half years. I quit my job and just kind of

started this board to want to get out of the house and thought it would be cool

to see how movies were made and stuff like that. So the first movie I did was you know as an

extra in Halloween too. So I've been pretty much doing not full-time or part-time

but you know probably two or three days a week since then and the people that I did a lot of

extra work for and a few other future roles for were doing the extra zombies

for the walking dad and Frank had told them that you know they were looking

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