

It suggests that Beta may not have been happy that after becoming famous, it didn't mean anything in a zombie apocalypse. That's an interesting comment from Hurst. "All I can say at this point is that maybe Beta was a large personality in the world before the apocalypse and sort of letting go of that may have been tragic to his psyche," said Hurst. "Ryan, do you want to comment on, there's a little bit of an Easter egg in 'Fear 514' that might be suggestive of Beta's past?" Hardwick asked Hurst on air. After Season 10 Episode 12 aired, that was no longer the case. In October 2019, "Talking Dead" host Chris Hardwick inadvertently spoiled the surprise for fans who weren't watching "Fear" or who weren't watching the spin-off closely by teasing there was something in the episode relating to Beta. For about 24 The Walking Dead episodes, producers and showrunners successfully managed to hide Beta’s identity and face from the fans. An overhead shot during the scene momentarily shows an album with a familiar face on the cover. Who Is Beta Everything We Know About the Origins of The Walking Deads Mysterious Whisperer Shop TWDU Trending news & videos The Walking Dead Universe. When they're ambushed by a few walkers, one of the undead knocks the vinyl records into the road. After an open beta, The Walking Dead: Last Miles Act One is launching on August 22 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET on Facebook. Daniel was traveling with his cat, Skidmark, and his collection of vinyl records. During season five, Daniel and Grace are traveling on the road. If you don't watch "Fear TWD," you may have missed this one from September 2019.

He then saw the person he was killing was wearing his band's T-shirt and that really affected him.Ī scene from season five, episode 14 of "Fear The Walking Dead" shows Beta's face without a mask on. On "Talking Dead," Hurst said he imagined that someone broke into his home and he defended them, killing the intruder. If I might - pass from the dead to the living, I 27 may I not say that even America has produced. Hurst pushed back since the character never reveals his identity in the comic until his death and was interested in exploring the reasons behind that. here and construct a wreath to lay upon his tomb.
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"I just sort of threw out all these ideas, not really expecting them to use any of them and then they sort of called me back and said, you know, what else you got?"Īfter Hurst was first cast on the show, he previously told Insider they considered showing Beta's real face on the series so he wasn't hot under the mask all the time. And that that's sort of how the Whisperers were born," Hurst continued. "So I just wrote up all these ideas of him being a country music singer and having a best friend whose face that he sort of took with him. "So these weird little things happened where I was meditating one day and I was just like, 'Oh, I think he's a country music singer.'" Though the showrunners have not confirmed this, former TWD star Beth Greene (who wrote the song) revealed on a podcast that the show was specifically looking for new country songs-which seems like a big coincidence when there is a big in-universe country star hiding behind a Whisperer mask on the series."When I read the comic and I knew that his backstory was the basketball player, it almost felt more like a gag than anything else," Hurst told Insider. In Season 10, Episode 5 ("What It Always Is"), Magna (Nadia Hilker) was seen listening to a country song that may have been sung by Hurst.

We may even have heard some of Beta's music within The Walking Dead. On one of these records, we saw the face of Beta actor Ryan Hurst wearing a cowboy hat, suggesting he is a famous country singer-a change from the comic books where Beta is a former basketball star. Together, the two of them wreaked havoc across communities. In FTWD Season 5, Episode 14, titled "Today and Tomorrow," Grace (Karen David) and Daniel (Ruben Blades) were traveling with a batch of vinyl records, which they then had to leave behind when they were confronted by a group of Walkers. Beta appeared on seasons 9 and 10 of The Walking Dead as the second-in-command to the Whisperers’ leader, Alpha (Samantha Morton). Beta may be a famous country musician in 'The Walking Dead' AMC Beta is a fictional character in the comic book series The Walking Dead and the television series of the same name, where he was portrayed by Ryan Hurst.
