The 54-year-old actor took to Instagram two days early to wish his Walking Dead co-star a happy 52nd birthday. Fans quickly alerted him to the fact that he was two days early.
“Happy birthday to my BFF. @bigbaldhead I just f*ckin love ya,” Jeffrey originally posted on Instagram.
Quickly after sharing, Jeffrey updated the caption with, “After posting… it’s not his birthday yet! Lol. F*ck it. Two day jump on this thing!! My pandemic calendar is better and faster than most folks. Xxjd.”
He then responded to a fan, saying they’ll be celebrating all week.
The 38-year-old actress is set to star as the late wife to her real life husband, Jeffrey Dean Morgan‘s character, Negan.
ComicBook.com revealed that AMC announced that Hilarie would play Lucille in a special episode.
In the comics, Negan was married to a woman named Lucille prior to the end of the world, and she was battling cancer.
Negan was depicted as having an extramarital affair, but after Lucille’s diagnosis, he began to spend as much time with his wife as possible, and he called off his affair.
Lucille did pass away, however, it was just as the zombie virus beginning to spread and she was reanimated as a walker.
The Walking Dead is expected to return for six more episodes before wrapping up the series on the network.
During the most recent episode of Friday Night In With The Morgans on AMC, the married couple were speaking to his former The Walking Dead co-star Sonequa Martin-Green, and her husband Kenric Green, who are expecting their second child soon.
As Sonequa and Kenric explained, their first child, Kenric Justin II, has been calling his unborn sister “cute strawberry” which caused Hilarie and Jeffrey to remember what Gus wanted to name his own sister, George, before she was born.
Jeffrey and Hilarie revealed that Gus though “Limousine” was the most beautiful word he could think of.
In another interview, the couple opened up about how long their quarantine show could possibly go on for.
“It’s very bittersweet,” Hilarieshared. “We love spending every Friday night together at home and catching up with friends, but we are also looking forward to getting back into a normal routine like everybody else.”
If you recall, as coronavirus hit, production on the season 10 ender had just entered pre-production, and nothing was filmed for it.
Plans shifted and now there’s a “special” episode planned for later in the year, which Jeffrey shared could be more like a mini movie.
“It will be cool having a one off, almost a Walking Dead movie in the middle of the season, I guess,” Jeffrey shared with Entertainment Weekly. “So we’re excited about that aspect of it.”
He added that the season ender has to have “some sort of a resolution…whether that carries over to next season, I’ll leave that open, because who knows? But we know he’s [Negan] coming to wipe everybody out with his zombie horde so hopefully we’ll see that come to a head at some point. There has to be some sort of battle. Greg Nicotero directed it, so it’s going to be a big massive episode for sure.”
“When he came along, he was so sure of himself…I was not a girl anyone pursued. I’ve always been alpha. And Jeffrey was like, ‘You’re going to be my girlfriend,’” she revealed.
“It was so nice to be pursued. He’s a cute dude! And I liked that he knew exactly who he was. His confidence was intoxicating.”
“The ease in which Jeffrey and I were able to live together was a surprise…I think it was really shocking to my family members and friends, because I was always the girl who was very cautious. I’d thought my entire life out, and [moving] was crazy, like, ‘Let’s do it! Let’s run away!’ But it worked out,” she went on to say.
“Jeffrey is the same guy now that he was when I met him. He knew 100 percent who he was and that was a delight. Because I could be the one who could experiment. Being with someone so solid allowed me to grow.”
The couple, who spoke on SiriusXM’s EW Live to promote their AMC show Friday Night In With the Morgans, had been chatting about her own Lifetime movie that was scheduled to start in May when the idea of a quarantine Christmas movie came up.
“We’d been doing our development and writing all winter, and it’s going to be a change,” she shared. “I’ve been pushing for Lifetime to do some more unscripted kind of stuff. We had done an unscripted special when we did our big One Tree Hill reunion Christmas movie and that did well!”
Hilarie added that “people like connecting with people who make these Christmas movies. So perhaps we’ll switch over to some unscripted stuff this year, and then next year we will start filming as soon as we get the green light and it will be an avalanche of Christmas. I promise.”
Jeffrey chimed in that “hopefully you have time between now and December to get one done…But we just don’t know. I still have hope that you’ll save Christmas somehow.”
He added that “maybe you do a Christmas movie doing quarantining and social distancing…How do people fall in love and sell Christmas trees…when you can’t see people?”
“Or you fall in love in quarantine, and Christmas is the first time you see the person! That’s it!!!” Hilarie said.
“We cracked it. We’ll shoot it here on the farm!”
She added, “Done! Christmas 2020, brought to you by the Morgans!”
“There’s a whole heap of people out there who love @jeffreydeanmorgan,” the 37-year-old actress writes, stating the absolute truth about The Walking Dead star. “He’s a person who is electric, dynamic. He laughs hard and can curse a blue streak, and has a heart bigger than most.”
She continues, “He takes on responsibility and fights for others, and works hard. And then he comes home and doesn’t rest…he’s the pony that our kids hop on. He’s the cuddler of donkeys. He’s the dreamer who pulls a log out of the woods and makes a table or art or mountains of firewood.”
“But to me, he is the only person who’s opinion matters,” Hilarie adds. “I met him when I was 26, and he saw me for who I wanted to be. And then he kicked down every obstacle to get us here.”
“Happy Birthday, Jeffrey. You make everything better.”
In her slideshow, Hilarie also shares rare pics of her and Jeffrey‘s kids, Gus and George.
If you didn’t know, Hilarie and Jeffrey were set up by this other actor!
