--- title: Norman Reedus and Andrew Lincoln in Walking Dead Prank War description: When Norman Reedus and Andrew Lincoln aren't fighting zombies as their Walking Dead characters, the two are in a different kind of battle. canonical: https://time.com/4237163/norman-reedus-andrew-lincoln-walking-dead-prank-war/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-25T15:56:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:29.787Z og:title: Norman Reedus and Andrew Lincoln Are in a Walking Dead Prank War og:description: "This feels like a very one-sided war" og:url: https://time.com/4237163/norman-reedus-andrew-lincoln-walking-dead-prank-war/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Norman Reedus and Andrew Lincoln Are in a Walking Dead Prank War twitter:description: "This feels like a very one-sided war" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Norman Reedus Talk About His Hilarious _Walking Dead_ Prank War with Andrew Lincoln > Sponsored content. 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Reedus made an appearance on Wednesday night’s episode of _The Late Late Show with James Corden_ and explained that he enjoys pulling one over on Lincoln, especially because his co-star isn’t very good at getting him back. **Read More:** [The Definitive Ranking of _The Walking Dead_‘s 20 Most Evil Villains](http://time.com/4194632/walking-dead-villains-ranking/) Reedus said the war began when he secretly attached an ’80s-style airbrushed Daryl Dixon license plate to Lincoln’s car. After he ended up driving around with it for months without noticing, the 42-year-old actor swore revenge. “He was trying to plot, but he’s really bad at it to be honest,” Reedus said. “But the last day of shooting for this last season, he walked into his trailer and I’d filled it full of chickens.” Corden remarked that it didn’t seem like Reedus was playing fair. “Hang on, you were trying to get him back for something he hadn’t done yet?,” the host said. “This feels like a very one-sided war.” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4237163/norman-reedus-andrew-lincoln-walking-dead-prank-war/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4237163/norman-reedus-andrew-lincoln-walking-dead-prank-war/"},"headline":"Watch Norman Reedus Talk About His Hilarious Walking Dead Prank War with Andrew Lincoln","datePublished":"2016-02-25T15:56:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:29.787Z","description":"\"This feels like a very one-sided war\"","url":"https://time.com/4237163/norman-reedus-andrew-lincoln-walking-dead-prank-war/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","The Walking Dead","TV","Late Night Television","james corden","Rick Grimes","The Late Late Show with James Corden"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4237163/norman-reedus-andrew-lincoln-walking-dead-prank-war/","name":"Watch Norman Reedus Talk About His Hilarious Walking Dead Prank War with Andrew Lincoln"}}]}] ```