Anthony Starr has finally spoken out about his character Homelander’s fascination with milk, explaining why it has become the villain’s “signature item.”
Amazon’s hit superhero series The Boys is not renowned for pulling punches, and the fourth season, which premiered on June 13th, has been just as perverse as the previous seasons.
Season four of the series, which premiered last month, featured an Oscar-winning legend as an octopus having sex with people, a close-up bum scene, and a violent scene titled ‘worse than Human Centipede’ that established the tone for the season.
Eagle-eyed fans noticed that in the most recent season, a unique storyline was carried that shaped the series’ main villain, Homelander.
In a recent episode, the character was shown drinking a glass of milk, a reference to an earlier season when he drank breast milk produced by a woman with whom he had an unusual sexual/maternal relationship.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Anthony, 48, explained that his milk obsession is something that has reoccurred during the series because it was just so ‘funny and weird.’
‘So my memory is it came up in the scripts – full credit to the writing team on this, because it was so weird. 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,’ he said.
‘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.
‘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.” 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.
‘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,’ he concluded.
Bizarrely, despite all of the depraved actions in the show, it was this milk fetish that has really upset viewers.
ValensShimwaMD said on X: ‘Homelander is just sick. I never thought there’d be a Universe with a character sicker than Rick from Rick and Morty but this scene was sick, bro has a milk fetish.’
Homelander is just sick. I never thought there'd be a Universe with a character sicker than Rick from Rick and Morty but this scene was sick, bro has a milk fetish
: https://t.co/RLZjQr8q0s pic.twitter.com/0LsjAUVhF3
— VALENS
(@ValensShimwaMD) Homelander and this weird breast milk fetish #TheBoys pic.twitter.com/rRaSSyNHk7
— AyanaMonique (@AyanaMonique) October 20, 2020
Homelander beefing with a baby cuz he's drinking all the breast milk is the funniest shit ever
— Red
(@RedLightning420) ‘Homelander and this weird breast milk fetish #TheBoys,’ said AyanaMonique on X.
Others found this recurring interest in milk hilarious rather than revolting.
RedLightning420 commented: ‘Homelander beefing with a baby cuz he’s drinking all the breast milk is the funniest s**t ever 
’
Based on this revelation from Anthony, fans of the show can be sure to expect more milk scenes in the rest of this series – whether they like it or not!
New episodes of The Boys season four are released every Thursday on Amazon Prime Video.
Source My Celebrity Life.
