Fans of "The Walking Dead" have been super excited for the new companion series, "Fear the Walking Dead," to premiere on AMC on Aug. 23. Star Alycia Debnam-Carey talked with Entertainment Weekly about what her character will be going through when the dawn of the apocalypse breaches.

To sum things up, Carey's character Alicia is a girl who is ready to take on the world. Not the zombie world, but rather an aspiring teenager who had a plan for life, and everything for her future was already planned out.

Before the zombies came about, Alicia was part of a broken home with her mother (Kim Dickens), and all she wanted to do was get away from the craziness that was her life. She had ambitious plans that included a bright future and a boyfriend whom she loved.

"She's smart and she's got ambition and she's ready to get out, I guess," Carey told EW. "So what's really heartbreaking is her very extreme demise and that fall, because she loses so much, in a way."

This of course leads her character to believe that she has lost so much more than everyone else in her life, which includes her mother and her wayward brother. Everything that she had been working toward was taken from her in one big swoop, which forces her to cling to a feeling of hopelessness.

"She loses a lot very quickly, and having to deal with that as a young person with so much ambition is really hard for her," Carey said.

Carey describes the relationship with her brother, who has basically run off and become a bit of a loner from the family. She said that they still love each other, but his abandonment of her and her mom after their father died really puts a strain on their relationship.

Carey also stars in another post-apocalyptic drama on the CW network, "The 100."