As The Boys Season 5 Wraps Production, Antony Starr Waves Goodbye to 'Complicated' Homelander: 'We Created a Monster'

Antony Starr has waved goodbye to The Boys and supervillain Homelander arsenic Season 5 wraps production.

In a station connected Instagram, Starr reflected connected the extremity of the hugely fashionable Prime Video amusement present the 5th and last play is successful the can, thanking the formed and unit arsenic good arsenic “the radical astatine Amazon and Sony that took a accidental connected this insane happening (and made the large prime successful casting me😂).”

Starr besides had immoderate absorbing words for Homelander, the evil Superman-style antagonist who has dominated headlines astir The Boys beauteous overmuch since the amusement deed Prime Video successful 2019.

“This analyzable quality allowed the abstraction and scope to observe and propulsion boundaries successful a mode I ne'er expected and I volition ever beryllium grateful for this experience,” Starr said, earlier thanking showrunner Eric Kripke, his “co-parent with this twisted gem of a character.”

“We created a monster, sir. And I volition miss him, and you,” Starr added. “Til we rotation retired the past season. When I’ll spot you. But this originative section is closed, and I’ll miss it, brother.”

Homelander has ever been a contentious character. The Boys is simply a ace gory satire of the superhero genre based connected the comic publication of the aforesaid sanction by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. It follows the eponymous squad of vigilantes who enactment to bring down a radical of supervillains (The Seven).

Homelander is simply a demented despot who rules The Seven with an robust fist. The different supes connected the squad unrecorded successful fearfulness of his temper swings and his overpowered abilities, which springiness him carte blanche to bash immoderate helium wants, whenever helium wants.

In May, Starr spoke of his astonishment astatine the glorification of Homelander by immoderate The Boys fans, calling it “surreal.”

"We had a clump of guys that we each benignant of knocked them down a small but connected societal media to say, 'This feline is not the leader of immoderate story.'" Starr said. "They were truly glorifying him, they loved him. Which is surreal."

Starr added that helium was amazed to find immoderate The Boys fans siding with Homelander, fixed the outrageously evil actions helium takes successful the show. "What I didn't expect was that radical would beryllium truthful conflicted astir it and, you know, uncovering themselves uncovering empathy for this monster."

And past year, up of The Boys Season 4, Kripke responded to fans saying Homelander is simply a hero, saying: "Some radical who ticker it deliberation Homelander is the hero. What bash you accidental to that? The show’s galore things. Subtle isn’t 1 of them. So if that’s the connection you’re getting from it, I conscionable propulsion up my hands.”

Kripe has besides said that Homelander was ever intended to beryllium a proxy for Donald Trump. “When Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] and I took it retired to pitch, it was 2016," helium said. "We conscionable wanted to bash a precise realistic mentation of a superhero show, 1 wherever superheroes are celebrities behaving badly.

"Trump was the, ‘He’s not truly getting the nomination, is he?’ guy. When helium got elected, we had a metaphor that said much astir the existent world. Suddenly, we were telling a communicative astir the intersection of personage and authoritarianism and however societal media and amusement are utilized to merchantability fascism. We’re close successful the oculus of the storm. And erstwhile we realized that, I conscionable felt an work to tally successful that absorption arsenic acold arsenic we could.”

Finally, successful his goodbye post, Starr issued a “massive convey you to the fans. You are the beingness blood. Without you, we don’t get to bash this. And our fans are 2nd to none. Mad emotion to you... and deepest respect for your taste.”

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