The Walking Dead’s Ryan Hurst (Beta) was hospitalized while filming season 10
By Corey Smith
In a case of art mimicking reality, although not in a way you’d want, The Walking Dead’s Ryan Hurst (Beta) revealed to Entertainment Weekly that filming season 10 took an especially brutal toll on him.
"Oh my God. I landed in the hospital once this year from heat exhaustion. I’m in a leather trench coat and two layers under that in Georgia in the summer. It’s no joke, man."
Indeed, while no one is running around in shorts and a tank top on the show, Hurst’s villainous Beta is way overdressed for that weather. A leather trench coat might make sense for zombie protection, but its hardly effective at keeping you cool. And then there’s the zombie mask.
Beta is a member of the Whisperers, a group of survivors who wear zombie skins as camouflage. He has yet to be seen on the show without a mask. And underneath that he apparently has a full beard, which couldn’t have helped the heat problem:
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 23: Ryan Hurst attends the Season 10 Special Screening of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” at Chinese 6 Theater– Hollywood on September 23, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
I guess the beard could have been shaved during filming, but if so, he grew it back awfully quick. “I wish I could say that I hate it, but I love it!” Hurst said of the costume. “Even though you’re in Atlanta in 110-degree weather, I love wearing that mask. I really, really do.” Someone get this man a fan on set, please.
In other distressing Walking Dead news, ratings continue to fall for the tenth season. Per Deadline, ratings for this past Sunday’s new episode, “We Are the End of the World,” dropped 7% from the season premiere the weekend before, the previous series low.
But if it sounds like the world might be ending for our post-apocalyptic survivors, there is one ray of sunshine: every episode is available 48 hours beforehand to AMC Premiere subscription subscribers. Deadline reports that service is doing “quite nicely.”
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That might explain why there’s a third Walking Dead series on the horizon. As someone once said, what is dead may never die.
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