I think that he would confront her and confront her, and that’s about as far as they would go.
I don’t think that he would ever turn on her. He’s protecting their way of life, of surviving.ĭo you think there’s anything Alpha could do that would push him so far that he would turn on her? So this certainly is not a lack of awareness on his part or him simply deferring to her.
He knows where the cracks are and he’s just trying … they built this army, this, for lack of a better term, corporation of Whisperers, and he does his best to keep everything together. But Beta is the one who sort of, I always sort of picture him as the Dutch boy, with his finger in the dam. I think she knows that in an instant, Beta can out her, and she holds no power, in and of herself, outside of her charisma. And that’s sort of the way it comes off, it just comes off as super strange. I was really happy with how the relationship came off, because I wanted it to be primal, I wanted it to be carnal, but not sexual. The most important things for me in their relationship was revealing that it wasn’t just this sort of authoritative-subordinate role. It really sort of reveals another faction of their relationship. And I think that that’s one of the reasons why she says over and over again, pleadingly, “They can’t know, they can’t know. Is that a recognition on her part that he’s kind of onto her, and might start calling out her contradictions more frequently?Ībsolutely. And then we see Alpha mirror that after Beta discovers the shrine she’s built to Lydia and how she destroys it. We see his reaction after she kills his friend, the zombified version of his friend, in the hospital in the flashback. Beta really takes it upon himself to save her before she sort of cripples the Whisperers forever. In their flashbacks, you see how much she saved Beta from himself. These are all things that Beta begins to really sense as enormous problems on the horizon for (Alpha’s) ability to lead the Whisperers. Everybody refers to her as Lydia … blaring hypocrisy from the very get go, and you sort of very silently, patiently track these cracks in her armor, and that extends to when she names one of the sisters Gamma. This is their world now, and we’re supposed to live among them.” And yet, Lydia has a name. She says, “Leave everything behind, the apocalypse is upon us. The fact of the matter is that she preaches to everyone, not unlike very charismatic, authoritarian cult leaders, in that they speak one thing and a lot of the time they end up doing another.
Beta is acutely aware of the hypocrisies that Alpha possesses. Yes, I mean, I’ve sort of always referred to Beta as the secret keeper of the Whisperers. Is that at all shaken when he learns she didn’t kill Lydia? We finally know now why Beta is so loyal to Alpha and how that began, how their leadership roles were established. What I can tell you is any changes that we’ve made, if it’s possible to improve upon the comic, we did our best to improve upon the comic … the wonderful stuff that (Robert) Kirkman brought to us.
#Beta the walking dead pro#
But yeah, I was just super happy with the way that the episode turned out, you know, and that they actually used some of my ideas, which is enormous.ĭoes this mean that Beta is not the pro basketball star-turned-actor that he is in the comic book? We haven’t revealed exactly too much of who he was, but we’re going to get into that also. We’ve been dropping little Easter eggs - there may or may not have been a little Easter egg in Fear the Walking Dead. There’s still some stuff that we were left to explore about Beta, especially his sort of history before he meets Alpha. They distilled it and made it really, really poignant. I contacted Angela, and I said, “Let me come in and pitch you this idea that I have for the backstory about Beta and Alpha.” And I went in there and I pitched it to her and she said, “Oh my God, I love it.” And they put it together, and it was a really collaborative process. This was before I’d shot a single frame of film for season 9. And while I was meditating, this entire sort of backstory dropped into my head. And sometimes these ideas just drop into my head while I’m in the middle of meditating. It’s one of those interesting things, you know, this happens to me quite a bit…I’ve been meditating for 20 years. At what point did you find out how much we were going to get into Alpha and Beta’s backstory and how much Beta’s backstory was going to differ from the comic book?
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