On the most recent episode of The Walking Dead, the monstrous Beta takes an emotional journey while carrying the decapitated head of Alpha. Beta goes to an abandoned place where he finds old album covers of himself before the zombie apocalypse. It’s revealed that Beta was a famous musician whose name looked to be Half Moon. But Beta’s real name may not be Half Moon after all.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Angela Kang revealed that while the album cover did have the name ‘Half Moon’ in bold letters, it’s not Beta’s real name.
“Half Moon was just the name of the album, and I can’t remember who came up with it. I think it was a little bit influenced by the image of him sort of in shadows. And I was looking back at old album covers of Garth Brooks and there’s some really great stuff where he was really in shadow. I think he was the artist who had the alter ego for a second.”
Kang also revealed how much of Beta’s backstory for Season 10 came from Ryan Hurst. “And Ryan had this idea of, ‘Oh, maybe he was this musician,’ and we thought that that was really cool. And I think the aspect of it that was kind of important is he was this famous guy and he had this dark side that kind of came out in the apocalypse.”
“So we worked on this backstory and then just thought it’d be really fun to have this musical figure and we were sort of looking for reference and that was what we were pulling on,” Kang continued. “And just the idea that even before the apocalypse there was a part of him that he kind of kept hidden at times.”
In the comics, Beta is revealed to be a famous basketball player who takes the reins of the Whisperers after Alpha’s death. So far, the show seems to be taking the same route as Beta is seen gathering the massive walker horde at the end of the most recent episode.
The Walking Dead stars Norman Reedus, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, Samantha Morton, Cooper Andres and Ryan Hurst.
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