Sterling K. Brown discloses he passed up a major role in The Boys.
In a chat with Variety, the star shared that he got offered a part in Amazon Prime Video’s smash hit series but opted to walk away.
“I think it was a bad guy [role] because it was very tempting. But a full-season arc, they are in Toronto — it’s tough,” Brown shared. “Listen, these are Champagne problems I’m talking about here! But because I’m blessed enough to already have certain things in place, I get a chance to be a bit more choosy.”
If Brown had joined The Boys, he might’ve faced off with Homelander and his strange milk obsession. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Homelander actor Antony Starr shared how this quirky character trait came about.
“So my memory is it came up in the scripts—full credit to the writing team on this, because it was so weird,” Starr said. “It started with X-ray visioning my Oedipal mummy figure while she was breastfeeding, and me pining like that and having a jealous relationship with the baby. And then at the start of Season 2, I found some of her…Homelander found some of her breast milk in a freezer and lasers it, starts drinking it, gets caught.”
“And it was so funny and weird, and I think I sent [showrunner Eric Kripke] an email after that scene going, ‘Dude, we gotta get as much milk in this show as possible. This is gonna be like a little motif or a signature thing. Like, we have to do it.’ And he was like, ‘One step ahead of you, brother. I’m putting it in everything.’ And so now every opportunity we get, the milk thing comes out,” Starr continued. “We don’t have to do anything with it, either. If I just look at someone and sip milk, there’s a twist to it. It’s become a really fun thing. The fans have really glommed on to it. And enjoyed it.”
The wild ride of The Boys will conclude with season five, coming soon. Creator Eric Kripke dropped the news on X before season four’s launch, saying “Season 4 premiere week is a good time to announce: Season 5 will be the final season! Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax.”
In a later chat with Hollywood Reporter, Kripke shared more about wrapping up the series. “From the very beginning, I wanted to wrap it out around Season 5,” he revealed. “And then I would say plans really solidified that we were going to actually do it years ago. I think we were probably in the middle of making season three, so it could have been three or four years ago that we always knew.”
