Actors Jack Quaid and Karl Urban recently spoke with EW about Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming second season of “The Boys” and tease the insanity of the first season was just the beginning.
Series co-creator Eric Kripke has already called the new season “crazier, stranger, more intense, more emotional”. In the new run, The Boys are on the run from the law, hunted by the Supes, and desperately trying to regroup and fight back against Vought.
Quaid, who plays Hughie, says they take things places he’s never gone before:
“We have gone so much further. No one is ready. Really. No one. I have done things this season I will never forget, [things] I’ve never done in my career and probably will not in the future. We just go above and beyond in terms of insane, jockeying moments.”
Urban was more introspective in his response, centering his answer around his character of Billy Butcher who learned a major secret during the first season’s finale:
“[Season 2] is really about humanizing the character and exploring different dynamics. There’s the monster, the violent psychopath, the killer, but there’s also the more compassionate side, the more humanistic side of Billy… There are really some wonderful, unlikely relationships that are formed.
Billy thinks the only good Supe is a dead Supe, and this season is really a season about growth. He’s coming to understand that things aren’t that black and white, there’s a certain shade of grey. He’s coming to understand that there is a benefit that comes with tolerance and being able to see that if he can use an asset, even if it’s a Supe, to achieve his goal, then he’s got to do it.”
The first three episodes will air on September 4th with the remaining five to go weekly after that.
