On June 3, the award-winning superhero series TheBoysbased on the story of the same name created by Garth Ennis, returned to bless our screens with his usual dose of violence extreme, outlandish situations and explicit scenes everywhere. Also, this season we have been introduced to a series of new characters, among which we highlight the members of the Payback superteam, the precursor to The Seven, the group of superhumans that we followed during the vast majority of the previous two seasons.
Watch out for Soldier Boy
However, within these new characters of The Boys, we must especially highlight Soldier Boy, played by Jensen Ackles. This superhero would become a more violent and degenerate version of Captain America and this role is, de facto, the actor’s first television character after the end of his contract with CW, a channel with which he starred in 15 seasons of Supernatural.
Although this character had already been mentioned to us in previous seasons, this It is the first in which he makes an appearance forming a central part of the story starring our team of killers from supers Favourite. Also, it has been confirmed that his origin will vary slightly in the series from the original comic.
Although the interpreter was very excited to join the Prime Video fiction, Even he had to know how to set limits so as not to do something excessively crude. In fact, according to several people who were closely linked to the production team of this new season, there would have been a specific scene in which the actor who gives life to Soldier Boy would have flatly refused to film. Why?
No, I don’t do that!
Although to this day it is unknown what this scene was about, we can assume that it was something truly shocking, since in a call that the actor had with the showrunner, Eric Kripke, came to say that “as a father of three children, as a son, as a husband and as a human being who respects himself, I cannot do it. I didn’t know where my line was, but you guys found it.” Finally, Ackles and Kripke managed to reach a middle ground. “We came to an agreement that I would have what I want while he would not have to destroy his soul,” he said. showrunner of the series.
Accustomed as we are to a scenario in which it seems that the only limits for a performer (normally an actress) to refuse to do something are located in the sex scenes, it is curious that the reason that is used is moralitynot crossing certain lines that we would all do well not to exceed.
The fact is that Karl Urban, who plays Billy Butcher, was asked about this alleged scene that Soldier Boy refused to record. He thinks it was a good sign. “When Jensen Ackles is making ‘I don’t know if I can do this’ calls, that’s when you know you’re on the right track”. Urban also stated that Ackles made some comments about the long-awaited Herogasm chapter, even exclaiming that this episode left the team really traumatized.
