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"Boys" fans.
Ah-ah-ah-ah.
If you don't want to know what's gonna happen--
Do not watch this video.
I'm gonna give you 5 seconds.
5, 4--
Turn it off.
I don't wanna spoil anything.
Episode 8 finale, season two of "The Boys".
So, go and watch the show, and then watch this interview.
The Deep is Homelander's mom--
I mean, 2, 1.
[THEME MUSIC]
There's so many spoilers ahead.
Like, literally everything.
But if you-- if you watched it, er, have fun.
The twist that Congressman Neuman is the, uh,
the Supe that is exploding everybody's heads
is mind-blowingly fun.
I was like, no, not AOC.
Please!
[LAUGHS]
No!
AOC can't be bad.
I mean, Congressman Neuman can't be bad.
I flipped out.
I didn't know.
I-- I genuinely did not know.
I think that's an interesting conversation
for her to actually be a Supe is a-- is a big twist.
I had a feeling.
I knew it before everybody else.
I just didn't wanna say it out loud.
Hmm.
That was my favorite twist.
And I'm on this show and I was blown away.
Claudia's a really good actress
because knowing what was coming, I
watched her throughout the season and I was duped by her.
She is pretty diabolical, to, uh, to coin a butcher phrase.
I'm just excited to see the havoc she wrecks.
To get to the last page of that episode
and read, oh, no, Hughie, you in trouble, girl.
Which is great.
My mind was blown, pun very much intended.
Spoiler alert.
Go [BLEEP] and watch it now if you haven't.
Excuse my language.
No.
[GASPING]
No.
Hold on.
Becca and Butcher, uh, in their connection in this show
is the most profound love and connection, and love story
that exists in the entire show.
Little baby Homelander, um, really screws up,
and it costs myself and Mr. Butcher quite a lot.
Butcher is looking into Becca's eyes, and she's dying.
Carl's work is amazing.
We see tears coming in, and I--
I welled up when I was watching it.
You know, I think Butcher's in a-- in a devastated place.
So, you know, he has definitively
lost the love of his life.
It was just some of the most intense
hippie, um, sort of experience that I've had on-- on any set.
I think it really sets the stage
for their-- for their characters in particular.
Butcher and Homeland are to really see
it's devastating, obviously.
I was really, really devastated.
And she was so lovely to work with.
She had to go.
No, I'm just kidding.
[LAUGHING]
I-- I wish I had done it myself.
[LAUGHS] No, that's terrible.
I don't know.
I've never been out of the house in a long time.
It's gonna change everything.
Because that's, for Butcher, that's, like,
his entire motivation gone.
And I can only imagine the rampage that Butcher
is gonna be on in season 3.
I think he's gonna go very dark.
Spoiler alert.
I'm going to only talk about spoilers from here on out.
It's gonna ruin everything.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
The "girl fights" when girls--
"girls do get it done", as Frenchie says.
We got a realm of badass chicks
who came together and decided that they were
just gonna beat her to a pulp.
Plot twist, it's not with Stormfront,
and, uh, the Supes is working together with me and Starlight.
I love shooting fight scenes.
I find them very cathartic because I just play someone
in the position of the person I'm fighting who I
wanna beat up and it's amazing.
Of course, on the day, after all my hard work,
basically, my stunt double did all the hard stuff
and made it look really good.
When I watched it, I was really excited,
because I look amazing.
That was the first time in the series that we've all been,
like, head-to-head and just went for it.
It was just like anything else in the show.
Part hilarious, part disgustingly gory and amazing.
You know, Hughie shoots a gun.
Uh, um, he doesn't really get to do that too often.
I-- I made sure on that day to--
I realize that people who shoot guns who aren't experienced
blink a lot.
So I made sure to shoot like that.
And then, here comes baby Homeland
with the finishing touches.
Like, who knew?
What a twist.
At the end of the shoot, we called Aya
stumpy, because she loses all our limbs,
and just like a tree stump.
Yeah.
She comes a little tree stump, like--
[LAUGHS]
She does-- she comes up as a stump, that's right.
Stumpfront, we call her.
[GUFFAWS]
The limb stuff was even cooler.
I had these, like, gray sleeves on so that they
could CGI out my limbs.
And I love, like, the three, you
know, MM, Frenchie and Hughie waiting on the sidelines,
just being like, damn.
And I watched it, and I was like, this
is why I want to stay on a superhero show forever.
[INAUDIBLE]
Spoiler alert.
I would, personally, like to apologize
to Starlight, who was wrongfully accused
of sabotage and conspiracy.
Welcome back to the team.
The only two words that I've heard from the powers that
be about season 3, with regards to Homeland,
uh, homicidal maniac.
So, I don't think it bodes well for some people,
but, what that means, we just have to wait and see.
I'd like to be back in the Seven.
So, I know, The Deep getting back in it.
We'll see.
I mean, maybe there's like a team up,
you know, like a bad supes versus, uh, the good supes.
We'll see.
I don't think there's a lot of loyalty in the Seven.
It's whoever is gonna bring in the cash.
And she's not Gecko, she's not, necessarily, I think, growing
her arms back that I know of.
But, you know, I think you just gotta tune in season 3
and find out, and let me know.
Am-- am I part of season 3?
By the end of season 2, I feel like she's
coming back to herself.
So what I hope is that, season 3 combines this newfound strength
that she's found within herself, with also who Annie is
to her core, which is someone who is trusting
and earnestly wants to save the world.
I think it's time for--
for-- for rebirth in the-- in the Seven.
But all I know right now is A-Train's back, baby.
We back!
[LAUGHS]
Spoiler alert.
Spoiler alert!
Spoilers are coming!
I think it's time I stand on my own two feet.
They know you're here?
Haven't told them, yet.
When can you start?
The boys need a vacation.
It's been a rough season.
I hope that, at least at the beginning of season 3,
we'll see each of the characters enjoying life.
You know, my character's back with his family.
Frenchie and Kimiko go off to explore the world and, I guess,
eat crepes in France--
God knows-- and dance.
For Hughie, I kind of feel like, he doesn't know
what he's gotten himself into.
But I would love if he just started out this season so
happy and so content, because I know it's just
gonna go downhill after that.
I'm sure it'll all come crashing down in, you know,
"The Boys" fashion.
It's gonna be very interesting honoring his word to Becca to--
to look after Ryan, at least, make sure that he's all right.
Hopefully, he, uh, keeps his head.
That's what I'm really shooting for.
Looking directly at Eric, not the camera.
Eric Kripke.
OK.
The last Eric Kripke told us was,
you kind of all just disband.
And, I'm gonna have to figure out how to get
you guys back together again.
That's-- that's all he said.