Season Four of Prime’s dark superhero satire, The Boys, began with one obvious real-life echo —the show’s designated Donald Trump analogue, Homelander, faced a criminal trial — and ended Thursday with another one that accidentally ended up hitting way too close to home. Mere days after the actual, unsuccessful assassination …
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Former Gossip Girls star Chace Crawford has a great time playing one of the most absurd characters on television, no matter how weird it gets —and it gets pretty weird. In an interview conducted for our recent in-depth feature on The Boys, Crawford looks back at his time so far …
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Antony Starr, the 48-year-old actor behind the greatest villain on TV right now, The Boys‘ Homelander, really doesn’t like walking around in public with the character’s dyed blond hair. “It kind of sticks out,” he says, in an interview conducted for Rolling Stone‘s recent in-depth feature on the show. “Like, …
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B ehind a heavy steel door, inside the Los Angeles headquarters of the sixth-largest company in the world, television’s most terrifying villain is wincing and shifting in his chair. His ass hurts. During a trip to Mexico last week, Antony Starr, the New Zealand-born actor who plays Homelander on Prime’s …
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