The show might be called The Boys, but there’s a lot of girl power in the Prime Video series. Especially in the final season.
As everyone bands together to take down the big bad, Homelander, what can we expect from the women of the show? Remezcla sat down with Erin Moriarty, Karen Fukuhara, and Colby Minifie to talk about just that, and also discuss what song helps them get into character.
“The cool thing about season five is there are many shocking moments, but the shock factor to me comes actually from a different place this season, which is the elevated stakes and the fact that, and Kripke has said this, nobody is safe,” Moriarty teased. Which, okay, we’re not worried or anything.
“I would say that the shock value really, like, comes from a very organic place of dramatic gravity as opposed to the shock value that we saw in previous seasons of The Boys,” adding that before we might have gotten shocking scenes (think Herogasm or that scene with Termine) but now, “sh*t has really hit the fan to an unprecedented degree, and what does that mean in a deeper, more grounded way for every character?”
We’re a little concerned. But also, excited.
Minifie also shared that she has some songs to get into character. “For Season 4 I was like, Ashley’s is ‘I Will Survive.’” Which, valid!
“I always make playlists for my character per season, and it’s really fun to do that, and I do use music to get into it,” Moriarty shared. “It’s funny, last season when I was coming up with a shifter character, it was really cool to, like, I used “Welcome to the Jungle” as, like, one of the songs that would just trigger me into them. Like, something that felt, like, galvanizing and kind of badass, and felt like a different flavor, so to speak, than Annie.”
Fukuhara, meanwhile, shared that “for Season 5, I listened to a lot of Cigarettes After Sex. And then, as a series, for The Boys, I think Karl [Urban] was the one who introduced us to the song, but he always played the song “The Barrel.” And so, whenever we play that song, it just brings me right back to Season 2, and then I think, I kind of feel like it’s our theme song at this point.”
Minifie also confessed that she listens to a lot of Bossa Nova, while Fukuhara brought up Hermanos Gutiérrez, which Moriarty also loved. So, in one way or another, our communities are important in the creative process of what we see in Season 5 of The Boys.
The final season of The Boys is here. We’re going to get to see how each one of these women makes her mark on a show that, for better or worse, defined what political satire can and should look like. That’s exciting, even if we have no idea how it will end.
The first two episodes of The Boys Season 5 are available to stream on Prime Video.