Antony Starrs thirst is real when it comes to a good running joke.
This is gonna be like a little motif or a signature thing.
Like, we have to do it.
Antony Starr explains his ‘The Boys’ character Homelander’s milk fetish.Panagiotis Pantazidis /Amazon/Courtesy Everett Collection
And he was like, One step ahead of you, brother.
Im putting it in everything.
And so now every opportunity we get, the milk thing comes out.
Antony Starr and Elisabeth Shue inThe BoysSeason 2, ep. 204 ‘Nothing Like It in the World’, which aired Sept. 11, 2020Jasper Savage/Amazon/Courtesy Everett Collection
We dont have to do anything with it, either.
If I just look at someone and sip milk, theres a twist to it.
Its become a really fun thing.
The fans have really glommed on to it.
The New Zealand actor also touched on comparisons of the psychopathic narcissist character toDonald Trump.
Its interesting because that was something that came up a lot.
We wanted more than a cardboard cutout.
Its the same way that you could look at it like Superman and just go bad.
I dont want to do that.
He was raised in a lab.
What damage did that do?
In Season Four, we really get into it.
Homecoming is a fun episode.
But let me put it this way.
Whatever parallels there are to the real world, it has to be driven by our characters.
The narrative has to be driven by the needs of the character, right?
So yeah, obviously, theres an election in the show, and theres a real election this year.
So theres always been those elements that parallel the real world.
But I feel like they always relate well to the show.
New episodes ofThe BoysSeason 4 are available to stream Thursdays on Prime Video.
