‘The Boys’ Antony Starr Explains Homelander’s Milk Fetish

Antony Starr‘s thirst is actual in relation to a great operating joke.

The star of The Boys seemed again on his pseudo-superhero character Homelander’s sudden milk fetish that emerged within the first season and has since turn into 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 crew 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 newborn. After which in the beginning 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 feel I despatched Eric an electronic mail after that scene going, ‘Dude, we gotta get as a lot milk on this present as attainable. That is gonna be like a little bit motif or a signature factor. Like, we’ve 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 turn into a extremely 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.

Based mostly on the comedian ebook of the identical identify, the Amazon collection options Starr as Homelander, the sinister chief of a gaggle 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 so much. For me it’s a little bit of a crimson herring as a result of if we strictly stayed in that lane, the character could be one- or two-dimensional, and we wished to create one thing a bit extra layered than that,” he defined. “We wished greater than a cardboard cutout. It’s the identical manner that you could possibly take a look at it like Superman and simply go unhealthy. 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 manner. No matter parallels there are to the true 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 yr. However that’s really a extremely pure development from Homelander’s perspective, as a result of we’ve been dabbling in politics and making an attempt to get within the navy from season one. So there’s at all times been these parts that parallel the true world. However I really feel like they at all times relate effectively to the present. It’s not like simply, oh yeah, we wish to stick that in for no different cause than simply to poke enjoyable at one thing in the true world,” added Starr.

New episodes of The Boys Season 4 can be found to stream Thursdays on Prime Video.