- We want these shows that really just, go for it.
- Yeah.
- Like this is not the one to do half-assed.
- No. - We can't.
- Absolutely not. - We whole-ass everything.
(laughs)
- We whole-ass. - Yeah, no, we whole-ass.
- That's a good term.
- That's a good way to explain the show!
- We whole-- yeah full-ass.
- Full-ass
- We whole-ass
(laughs)
- One hundred percent, total, full-ass.
(laughter)
- Here at Comic Con, day three,
with a cast that I'm very excited to have here.
I was just telling couple you guys,
I've seen a lot of your show; it's great.
The cast of 'The Boys' is with us today.
- Cool. - Cool, thank you.
- What's up, what's up?
- Good to see you guys.
- Good to see you too.
- There're a lot of adjectives you can assign to this one.
I don't even know where to start.
- Quite a few.
- Subversive, anarchic, I mean yeah,
how do you describe the show to your friends?
What is this?
- It's really hard to describe it, honestly.
- I think our creator, Eric Kripke, is the best
at elevator pitching it in a succinct way,
but basically it's a world where superheroes exist
and a lot of them are super corrupt.
It's about the little guys, the people with no powers
trying to expose them and take them down.
- Totally.
And it's interesting, I mean,
we're obviously at a saturation point
where we're seeing every different kind of superhero story.
- Super saturation,
- Super saturation, one might say, Karl.
- Alt title for our show.
- That was the working title, 'Super Saturation'.
- Working title.
(laughs)
- But you guys have found a new way in,
and thanks obviously to some great source material where,
who on the couch here knew, had any knowledge
of source material?
Is it all new to all of you guys or what?
- I was aware of it.
I remember seeing the comic in a store
up in on Sunset in Hollywood a few years back
on the way to a meeting and was intrigued by it.
But I didn't feel compelled to go out
and, you know, get into it.
But it wasn't until years later when I heard
that they were pulling it together,
and then I started seeing the cast that they were
assembling for it and then I got sent the script
and it was just ballistic.
- Yeah, that's true. - It's so great.
- It would have taken a big man of me to turn it down.
I had to be in it.
- Yeah, it goes for broke.
I mean, I was saying to another cast earlier today,
you know you want these shows that really just go for it.
This is not one to do half-assed.
- No, you can't. (laughs)
- We whole-ass everything. - Absolutely not.
- We whole-ass it.
- That's a good way to explain the show.
- Full-ass. - Yeah, full-ass.
- Explain the show.
Well, we whole-ass everything.
- Whole-ass go for it.
- 100% total full-ass.
(laughs)
- Other shows give it the half-ass.
We go all the way.
- All ass.
(laughs)
- That's a really good pitch. - It is good.
- But it is also a kind of a commentary in some way,
on celebrity, abuses of power.
It does have a lot of relevance
to this kind of crazy world we're living in today.
Isn't that, I mean you see that, right?
- Yeah, the characters in the show
have to deal with the pressures of being the most famous,
most rich, most powerful, all those types of things.
You know, how do they handle that kind of responsibility?
The decisions they make with the influences that they have,
temptation and, you know, all these things
that they have to deal with just like regular people do,
they just so happen to be super-enabled.
- Yeah, and Erin and Jesse, you guys get to,
I don't know if it's an honor or a weird distinction,
but you get to get some superhero costumes.
- It's amazing. - A rite of passage.
- It's so much fun.
I feel like half my job is done for me
as soon as I put that costume on.
It just makes me feel like the role.
It's amazing.
- Yeah, that's half the work?
You're like, "Okay, I got this now."
- It just, it's cool because some jobs,
you know, require a little more prep work
when you get onto set, and that's like,
I put that costume on and I feel it.
I feel like I step into her, and it's cool.
And then also, gosh, to see the,
to witness first hand the process of like,
it took six months for them to build those suits.
I don't even know at this point how many fittings we've had.
- It's in like the high fifties.
- And like they're molded to our bodies.
They're so elaborate and detailed,
and like, they're incredible.
It's really cool.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Okay, so who among the most recognizable heroes,
you know, your Ironmans, Batmans, Supermans,
who's the asshole?
Who's the one that would be an asshole in our real world
if you think about it?
- That's Homelander, for sure.
- No, I'm saying like, - You mean like mainstream?
- The non-Boys canon? - That we know?
I mean, I feel like the Hulk.
- Right, especially if he's in a mood.
- I feel like, exactly.
Like he's a moody dude.
- Literally becomes the Hulk
when he's acting like an asshole.
- That's part and parcel of being the Hulk.
- Yeah, maybe him.
- Batman too.
- Yeah, he's little moody as well, isn't he?
- I don't know, Karl and I were saying earlier,
I feel like the Boys themselves would respect Batman
just because he doesn't have powers and he'd just using...
- He is super rich though.
- I respect him because of that.
- He is super rich.
- We could use the funding.
That's what we were saying.
- Are you trying to recruit Batman to 'The Boys'?
- Just the Bruce Wayne money.
- We're a little under-funded.
- This is true.
Do you get the best of all possible worlds,
of kind of like, you don't have to do the spot Spandex,
at least in the episodes I've seen.
- Yeah, no Spandex.
- Your Spandex days are behind you?
(laughs)
You never know.
- You never know with Butcher though.
- He comes into the fittings and just puts it on sometimes.
- Sneak into Tony's trailer and...
(laughs)
- It's not weird, like it's funky.
- That face.
- I need to connect with you guys.
- I feel you Tony, I feel you.
- What about the luxury of, I was just talking to you guys,
I mean, no one outside of press
has seen any of these episodes,
but you're already shooting a second season.
- Season two.
- You know it's so wonderful that firstly
that Amazon has the confidence in us,
but also for the audience to know that
if they invest the time and energy in this show,
that there's gonna be a reward.
There's gonna be more, and that's just
such a wonderful position to be in.
We couldn't be more grateful to Amazon
and more delighted for the fans.
- Totally.
Karl, I talked to you a thousand times indeed
at many Comic Cons.
You've come here for different projects.
I just spoke to Quentin Tarantino
about his Star Trek project.
- Oh wow.
- Which he told me would be your cast.
- Whoa.
Ohhhh!
- Oh my God.
- I assume you knew that.
- Can I just come to craft you, like once?
- Yeah, exactly.
- Do you know much about the story treatment?
Have you got any down there?
- You know, listen.
I don't know, I know very little about it.
To me the idea of Quentin Tarantino
directing a Star Trek movie would just be
the most insane, coolest project, I think,
that I would ever be involved in,
apart from this obviously.
Current present company excepted.
But I'm like, you know what,
go and see 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood',
- Have you seen it yet?
- No, I have not seen it, but you go see that
and tell me that he would not knock
Star Trek completely out of the park.
- He's a legitimate fan.
He knows his stuff. - It would be ballistic.
I would love the opportunity to work with him.