<p>Spend just a little time with The Walking Dead&#39;s Norman&nbsp;Reedus and it&#39;s obvious the modest motorcycle-riding megastar is rip-roaringly alive. That&#39;s exactly how he&#39;d like to keep his zombie-hunting alter ego, Daryl&nbsp;Dixon, but will he?</p>

- Jessica Shaw

IT'S A WARM FALL EVENING IN NEW YORK CITY'S WEST VILLAGE, AND ACT OR NORMAN REEDUS steps out of a vintage Mercedes convertible and onto a quiet street where an angled sun casts a pale glow across the neighborhood’s famous cobblestones. Though only a handful of pedestrians stroll and mingle about, Reedus hasn’t even shut the door behind him when a crush of bodies almost magically appears. Men, women, tourists, residents, college students, and even a few AARP-eligible old-timers all stand frozen, staring at the svelte tough guy in the black leather jacket, that unmistakable jagged hair dangling down to his collar.

“My government professor always talks about The Walking Dead,” says a bystander, before an overexcited fan cuts him off.

“Are you…I mean, you’re…I’m John. It’s my birthday. Can I take a picture with you?” he says. An onlooker from across the street takes a less subtle approach.

“DARRRYL!” he shouts at the top of his lungs.

“All day, every day,” says Reedus, turning to me and flashing a smile that appears part genuine gratitude and part WTF? with a whiff of resignation.

The latter is understandable. Just days before, Reedus— the former ’90s heartthrob turned B-movie actor who, as crossbow-wielding bad-guy-gone-good Daryl Dixon on AMC&rsq

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