Walking Dead star Tom Payne says he was 'kind of over' show by the time he left

Actor claimed everyone in the show is ‘waiting for their time to shine’

Walking Dead star Tom Payne has said he was “kind of over” the show by the time his character, Paul “Jesus” Rovia, was killed off after three seasons.

“Ultimately it came down to just happiness in my job, and I was just like, ‘Well, I’ve done this for three years,’ and that was the longest I’ve ever done any acting job,” Payne told ComicBook.com’s Talking Shop.

“And I had kind of done everything that I wanted to do on the show, and I didn’t really see the point in hanging around and just waiting for something to happen.

“We’d done some fight stuff which was really cool, but it didn’t seem like it was really going to go… his storyline wasn’t going to develop much.”

The actor claimed that everyone is “waiting for their time to shine” on the show and “I was just kind of over it, really”.

Pane is now the star of Fox’s crime drama Prodigal Son, in which he plays criminal profiler Malcolm Bright, the son of a notorious serial killer (Michael Sheen).

Fans of The Walking Dead were recently disappointed after being told that season 10 finale has postponed until later this year due to the coronavirus.