WARNING: This article contains spoilers from "The Walking Dead."

Since fans have to wait until October for season five of "The Walking Dead" to begin, now is as good as a time as ever to take a look back at one of the characters that the AMC show has lost.

On June 2, Lou Temple, who played Axel in season three, dished to Classicalite about his former role.

"You know, I think I had some good stash, stache-stash, in the old prison cell," he said of his signature look. "You know maybe Hershel had a little bit, and he let me borrow some ... [because] he wasn't going to keep up with his facial hair like he should. Yeah, that was always a big question. Perfect moustache? Perfect grooming in a zombie apocalypse?"

Unlike "The Walking Dead" viewers, Temple had a bit of notice before Axel was killed.

"I was told three weeks before I left the show that I was that I was going to be exiting the show," the "Lone Ranger" actor said. "You do this denial dance, where you try to figure something else out -- a different choice. Then when you finally commit to the fact that you are going to do this, you want to do it great. So that was really my intention, to pull off it big the way we did and to shock the audience. I was really happy that we did a good job with that. "

Temple does believe, however, that if Axel's life was not taken from him early, he would have been an excellent team member to have during the zombie apocalypse.

"I feel like he would still be a part of the group and that he would be very serviceable to the group. I think he had a lot to offer in friendship and comradeship," Temple said. "I think he was a handy guy who could of helped them out quite a bit. You know he just wanted to fit in and kind of kept putting his best foot forward. I think he had a lot to offer."

Temple can next be seen in the film "Night Moves," which he describes as an "ecological thriller."

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