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Last month, Norman Reedus gave a video tour of his Walking Dead trailer to Entertainment Weekly. It wasn’t a look into his fabulous mobile amenities (have you seen that Celebrity Motor Homes show? Jason Mraz did the best one) so much as a view at the souvenirs and junk he keeps. Reedus keeps a lot which is kind of sweet. If a Walking Dead fan gives him something, it has a good chance of going on display in his trailer. Reedus also likes to steal mementos from the show. He took a Polaroid camera from costuming and he swipes one of his character’s crossbow about once a season.

Spoilers for the episode of Walking Dead follow
One of the weirdest things that Reedus has taken from the WD set is Andrew Lincoln’s beard. As those of you who watch the show know, our intrepid zombie fighters have landed at a protected community in Alexandria where the people actually seem decent. Headed by a former congresswoman, their new location seems safe and close to life before the virus. It’s hard for them to adjust, and they’re suffering from PTSD while waiting for the other shoe to drop. Lincoln’s character Rick Grimes shaved his beard and accepted a haircut on arrival at his new mcmansion and holy sh*t he looks so hot. And Reedus saved the beard remains. He told this to Entertainment Tonight:

On if he’ll ever shave his own facial hair
This takes a good year to grow these five little hairs right here. But I actually have Andrew’s beard in my refrigerator in a Ziploc bag in Florida. I don’t know [what I’m going to do with it.] He’s kind of my dude.

1. @cfn804: If you weren’t acting what would you be doing?
I’d be living in a house in Montauk with about 12 cats walking around in a onesie.

2. @Jskuminime: How did you become an actor?
I was at a party and I yelled at a bunch of people and somebody asked me to be in a play.

3. @miri_lars: What should we expect from the season finale?
Wow, bring your Kleenex and you’ll be screaming at your television.

4. @Shansberry89: Do you have anything in common with Daryl in your personal life?
Yeah, I’m super awkward. I mean what I say and I wear my heart on my sleeve for the most part.

5. @oddkin13: Do you still take the crossbow home every day?
At the end of the season I steal a crossbow and I’m driving back to New York and I get a call saying, ‘You did not steal that crossbow?!’ and I’m like, ‘I stole the crossbow!’ So I have a bunch of crossbows in New York.

[From Entertainment Tonight]

It sounds gross, but maybe Reedus knows that Lincoln’s beard (Lincoln’s beard, ha!) is worth good money.They can auction that thing off for charity at some point to support a good cause. This also brings it home to me that Reedus is the one doing the promotion and heavy lifting for Walking Dead. It’s seems like Lincoln is too good for this.

Also gross? Reedus’s habit of licking people. It’s become his thing now and he plays it up on social media. Reedus talked about it on Conan earlier this week. Fans will ask him to lick them and he usually obliges – until it gets weird. This headline on MTV News pretty much summed it up. Also on Conan his hair looked just as greasy as it does on Walking Dead. I think that’s due to the color, because he must be allowed to wash it in between takes.

Here’s Reedus on Entertainment Tonight. At the end they shoot Nerf crossbows at zombie celebrities.

And here’s Reedus on Conan. The best part is when he wishes happy birthday to his mom.

I went through Reedus’ Instagram looking for the licking pictures. (Pajiba has a ton of them.) Instead I found this gem from two weeks ago that I somehow missed.

@flauntmagazine – @burberry and @cultdenim. See full feature on flaunt.com ! #thelocationissue

A photo posted by norman reedus (@bigbaldhead) on Feb 16, 2015 at 12:01pm PST

https://soundcloud.com/chances-with-wolves/episode-303

A photo posted by norman reedus (@bigbaldhead) on Mar 1, 2015 at 12:48pm PST

Close up. Yup. #ricksbeard. In tha fridge. http://comicbook.com/2014/10/19/the-walking-dead-s-norman-reedus-has-andrew-lincoln-s-beard-in-h/

A photo posted by norman reedus (@bigbaldhead) on Oct 20, 2014 at 8:14pm PDT

Bonus gifs of Andrew Lincoln shaving,

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