Eric Kripke’s ‘The Boys’ is currently in its fourth season. The superhero drama series never misses a chance to be funny as hell. And among the many bizarre things on the show, one is Homelander’s obsession with milk. Fans know how much he loves his milk.
Now, ‘The Boys‘ star Antony Starr opens up about how they thought of adding this little obsession with milk. The obsession emerged in the first season and has since become his and showrunner Eric Kripke‘s humorous wink to die-hard fans.
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How Did Homelander’s Milk Fetish On ‘The Boys’ Come About?
While in conversation with ‘Rolling Stone’, Antony Starr, who plays Homelander reveals how his character’s fetish for milk came around. “So my memory is it came up in the scripts — full credit to the writing team on this, because it was so weird,” he recalled.
Starr continued, “It started with X-ray visioning my Oedipal mummy figure.” Starr referred to Madelyn Stillwell as played by Elisabeth Shue. He continued, “ While she was breastfeeding, and me pining like that and having a jealous relationship with the baby. And then at the start of Season Two, I found some of her … Homelander found some of her breast milk in a freezer and lasers it, starts drinking it, gets caught.”
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Antony Starr Emailed Eric Kripke To Add In The Milk Obsession
Antony Starr understands his character pretty well. So when the opportunity presented to do something funny, he didn’t waste time and immediately emailed Eric Kripke.
Starr said, “And it was so funny and weird, and I think I sent Eric 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.’”
However, creator Eric Kripke was faster. Starr recalled, “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 added, “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.”
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