Homelander actor sends brutal message to The Boys fans who like his character
If you're a huge fan of The Boys and the character you idolise most from the show is Homelander then Antony Starr has got a pretty clear message for you.
The Prime Video show based off a series of graphic novels of the same name has a pretty diabolical take on superheroes, with most of the ones in The Boys being dreadful people who get up to some pretty awful stuff.
The worst of them is Homelander, played by Starr in the series, the mightiest man in the world who has basically all the powers of Superman and none of the morality.
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If you've seen the show then you'll know what a dreadful piece of s**t he is, a narcissistic little manchild who does whatever he wants and hates anyone being able to say no to him.
Many fans of The Boys think Homelander is a fascinating and well acted character, but somehow there are some who seem to completely blank all the bad stuff he does and genuinely think he's great.
If you're one of the latter category then Antony Starr has a message for you, 'you're f**ked up'.
Starr said as much during the 'For The Love Of Sci-Fi' convention in Manchester in December, 2023 as he was answering questions alongside fellow The Boys stars Laz Alonso (MM) and Chace Crawford (The Deep).
A fan asked Starr about him not wanting 'people to like Homelander as much as they do' and gave a response that will be brutal to anyone thinking the character is in any way someone to emulate.
He said: "Oh no I can't control that, but it's pretty f**king weird that they do.
"I think a lot of people missed the point, a lot of people on the right side of especially American politics didn't quite get what the character was representing, who and what.
"There's something quite funny to that 'cause it means they're dumb as a bag of hammers but I think that's one of the things about the character.
"We've tried to make it a little bit more complicated that just a villain and it somehow works. The weird thing is that I get lots of people coming saying they love Homelander, it's like 'you're f**ked up'."
Homelander is a guy who calls humans 'f**king mudpeople' and fantasises about murdering crowds of them, straight up murders plenty of people and falls in love with a Nazi after she tells him he's everything they ever wanted.
The Boys really isn't subtle about how Homelander is definitely not a good guy, so it's not hard to see why Starr would tell fans who genuinely admired the character they missed the point.
As for 'who and what' Homelander is supposed to be representing in American politics, if you haven't figured that one out then the season three finale was inspired by a quote from Donald Trump.
In case it's faded in your memory, in the final scene Homelander lasers a protestor to death in New York City in front of a crowd of his supporters and after a stunned silence they start cheering for him.
That's based off Trump's declaration that he could 'stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters'.
Some far-right fans of The Boys have managed to somehow scrape together an iota of self-awareness and realise that the show is satirising them, and they're really not happy about it.
Then again the far-right are generally a miserable bunch so what else is new?
Topics: The Boys, Amazon Prime, TV and Film, Celebrity
Joe Harker