When you take photos near the set of “The Walking Dead,” you never know what will happen.
Two high school students experienced that last Saturday when they posed in their evening wear in Senoia, Georgia, where the hit television drama about a zombie apocalypse is filmed.
While the two students, identified by their parents as Ethan and Leah, posed for the camera, more than one dozen zombie characters gathered behind them in an epic photobomb.
“Senoia a really popular place to take photos because it’s a pretty, almost Victorian-like town,” said the photographer, Stephanie Smith. “I was actually trying not to get the [‘Walking Dead’] set in there because we wanted a pretty background.”
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Smith estimated as many as 15 to 20 zombies crept behind the prom photo shoot. The zombies were not extras from the show, according to Smith, but are part of the tourist industry that sprung up after "The Walking Dead" began filming in the small town a few years ago.
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“They stayed in character the whole time,” Smith said. “I think they were playing around because they saw me shooting and walked right in front of me.”
“They circled back around [a second time] and we were like, ‘Okay, we get it,’” Smith said with a laugh.
She said she kept clicking her camera because she thought the photos would be a funny memento for the students, a sophomore and junior at a high school in nearby Fayetteville, Georgia.
Season 9 of "The Walking Dead" is currently airing on AMC. The post-apocalyptic drama was also recently renewed for a 10th season.
