Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we have our first look at ‘The Wire’ alum Seth Gilliam as Father Gabriel Stokes. In the September 2014 issue, EW interviewed Gilliam about researching his new role.

“I only read the comic book where Father Gabriel was introduced, which I think was episode 61 in the comics. I didn’t read anything before that, and I haven’t read anything after that. I discovered from reading about the show that often times characters’ names and journeys are kind of crisscrossed and mismatched, so I thought if I did read too much I might be giving myself a lot of information that would be useless, or just outright wrong. So I figured, like with everything, I’d just take the script and try to fill him out the best I possibly can.”

You can read the rest of the interview here. Check out the other photos from season 5 below.

Stars Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Danai Gurira, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs, Melissa McBride, Emily Kinney, Chad Coleman and Sonequa Martin-Green.

‘The Walking Dead’ returns on October 12th.