We’ve seen numerous behind-the-scenes videos displaying buff actors pulling off action-hero feats. However it’s arduous to recall any performer maintaining it as actual as Antony Starr. He plays Homelander on The Boys, so he’s presumably no stranger to stunts and wire work. However for his character’s look on Boys spin-off Gen V, Starr had a hilarious response to being hoisted manner, manner above the bottom.
(NSFW language ahoy, in case that wasn’t apparent.)
You gotta love the nonchalant manner he frames that clip as his “contribution.” Simply after Gen V’s finale earlier this month, govt producers Michele Fazekas and Eric Kripke revealed in a Variety interview that its cameos of Boys characters—Karl City’s Billy Butcher additionally confirmed up—have been fastidiously plotted slightly than shoehorned in as a solution to hyperlink the exhibits much more collectively.
“We didn’t go into this finale saying, ‘we’d like a Butcher cameo and a Homelander cameo.’ They have been separate concepts,” Fazekas told the trade. “Homelander got here earlier than Butcher as a result of we knew we wished to see Homelander. However that’s a bell you possibly can’t actually ring that a lot. We wished to be very aware of once we did that. And it might come up over the season, after which it made sense to do it on the almost-final, culminating second.”
Gen V and The Boys can be found on Prime Video; the discharge date for season 4 of The Boys has not been introduced, however since its creators informed Selection they’re presently “deep into the music and visible results,” 2024 appears probably.
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