Antony Starr’s Most Humiliating Homelander Line Was His Own Idea, and Eric Kripke Is Still Laughing About It

For seven years, ‘The Boys‘ built Homelander into one of television’s most terrifying villains, a god-complex given flesh, laser eyes, and a Vought-issued smile. Antony Starr’s performance turned the character into a cultural phenomenon, a figure so chilling and so watchable that fans tuned in season after season half hoping he would never actually be...