Antony Starr‘s thirst is actual in terms of a very good working joke.
The star of The Boys regarded again on his pseudo-superhero character Homelander’s sudden milk fetish that emerged within the first season and has since grow to be his and showrunner Eric Kripke‘s humorous wink to die-hard followers.
“So my reminiscence is it got here up within the scripts — full credit score to the writing workforce on this, as a result of it was so bizarre,” he recalled to Rolling Stone. “It began with X-ray visioning my Oedipal mummy determine [Madelyn Stillwell as played by Elisabeth Shue] whereas she was breastfeeding, and me pining like that and having a jealous relationship with the infant. After which initially of Season Two, I discovered a few of her … Homelander discovered a few of her breast milk in a freezer and lasers it, begins ingesting it, will get caught.”
Starr continued, “And it was so humorous and peculiar, and I believe I despatched Eric an e mail after that scene going, ‘Dude, we gotta get as a lot milk on this present as doable. That is gonna be like a bit of motif or a signature factor. Like, now we have to do it.’ And he was like, ‘One step forward of you, brother. I’m placing it in every thing.’ And so now each alternative we get, the milk factor comes out. We don’t must do something with it, both. If I simply take a look at somebody and sip milk, there’s a twist to it. It’s grow to be a very enjoyable factor. The followers have actually glommed on to it. And loved it.”
Within the Season 3 episode ‘Right here Comes a Candle to Mild You to Mattress’, Homelander finds a cow in a farmhouse, milks it and drinks the milk from a bucket.
Antony Starr and Elisabeth Shue in The Boys Season 2, ep. 204 ‘Nothing Like It within the World’, which aired Sept. 11, 2020. (Jasper Savage/Amazon/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Primarily based on the comedian e book of the identical identify, the Amazon sequence options Starr as Homelander, the sinister chief of a bunch of world-famous superheroes backed by a corrupt company. The New Zealand actor additionally touched on comparisons of the “psychopathic narcissist” character to Donald Trump.
“It’s attention-grabbing as a result of that was one thing that got here up rather a lot. For me it’s a little bit of a purple herring as a result of if we strictly stayed in that lane, the character can be one- or two-dimensional, and we needed to create one thing a bit extra layered than that,” he defined. “We needed greater than a cardboard cutout. It’s the identical manner that you might take a look at it like Superman and simply go dangerous. I don’t wish to try this. I wish to begin from the bottom up and construct a human being that was, OK, how was he raised? He was raised in a lab. What harm did that do? In Season 4, we actually get into it. ‘Homecoming’ is a enjoyable episode.
“However let me put it this fashion. No matter parallels there are to the actual world, it needs to be pushed by our characters. The narrative needs to be pushed by the wants of the character, proper? So yeah, clearly, there’s an election within the present, and there’s an actual election this 12 months. However that’s really a very pure development from Homelander’s perspective, as a result of we’ve been dabbling in politics and attempting to get within the army from season one. So there’s at all times been these parts that parallel the actual world. However I really feel like they at all times relate properly to the present. It’s not like simply, oh yeah, we wish to stick that in for no different purpose than simply to poke enjoyable at one thing in the actual world,” added Starr.
New episodes of The Boys Season 4 can be found to stream Thursdays on Prime Video.
