‘The Boys’ Star Antony Starr Reveals His Top Homelander Moments

Antony Starr has seen his fair share of murder, disembowelment and uncomfortable milk drinking across four seasons of Amazon Prime Video’s hit superhero series “The Boys.” In an FYC panel with several of his co-stars, Starr reveals a couple of his top Homelander moments, which both deal with the mental unraveling of his all-powerful, evil superhero.

“A moment that stands out for me, in Season 3 was doing the scene in the mirror,” he said. “I remember reading it and then saying to Jordan Moreau Eric Kripke, ‘I think there’s somewhere we can go.’ Every season I get an episode or a scene that will connect in a different way and it sparks something like, ‘Oh, my God, we can go there.’ I hit up Eric and he’s always been true to his word. It’s the best collaboration that I’ve had thus far in my career. He’s astounding in that respect. We’ve got a great creative rapport. So in Season 3, that moment for me was the reflecting in the mirror scene. I saw another lane to go down and I pitched it to Eric and then we sort of cobbled it together, and then it ended up really twisted and dark.”

Starr was joined on the panel by his co-stars Jack Quaid, Colby Minifie, Tomer Capone, Susan Heyward, Nathan Mitchell, Claudia Doumit, Jessie T. Usher, Erin Moriarty and Chace Crawford.

“Every character represented by these people on stage is incredibly damaged,” Starr added. “That’s one of the things that I’m really proud of about us and the show is that we go to those deep dark places that people can relate to. I think that’s part of why there’s been such a response. So that scene was a real standout.”

In Season 4, Starr shouted out Episode 4, which revealed Homelander’s dark origins in a Vought laboratory.

“On the same note, it was one of those ‘oof, there it is’ moments — Episode 4 going back to the lab where Homelander was raised,” he explained. “That was another one of those moments where what was on the page was great, but sometimes you see an angle or a way through or something that you can lock into. Again, pitched it to Eric and we knocked it together and it was amazing. If I don’t know what’s going to happen, then the audience isn’t going to know what’s going to happen. You’re right on the edge of things going wrong, which is a really creatively great place to be. That’s where we were at in both those scenes.”