'The Boys' Cast Answer The Web's Most Searched Questions

WIRED

The cast of Amazon Prime Video’s hit series “The Boys” answer their most searched questions from Google. Is the show exactly like the comic series it’s adapated from? Who from “The Boys” is in the spinoff “Gen V?” Does Chace Crawford sing? How did Laz Alonso become famous? Was Jessie T. Usher really on “Hannah Montana?” How did Antony Starr get the role of Homelander? These questions and many more are answered on the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.  Season 4 of The Boys premieres June 13 on Prime Video (finale on July 18)  Director: Jackie Phillips Director of Photography: Ricardo Pomares Editor: Estan Esparza Talent: Laz Alonso; Chace Crawford; Antony Starr; Jessie T. Usher Creative Producer: Justin Wolfson Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas Production Manager: Peter Brunette Talent Booker: Mica Medoff Camera Operator: Chris Davidson; Osiris Larkin Sound Mixer: Kari Barber; Chris Omae Production Assistant: Lauren Boucher; Spencer Mathesen Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen Additional Editor: Jason Malizia Assistant Editor: Andy Morell

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00:00Anthony Starr here with the other boys on The Boys and this is the autocomplete interview.

00:10Oh! It's here! This is wonderful.

00:17The Boys, new season.

00:20Yes there is.

00:21Tell me about it.

00:23The Boys new season.

00:24We're on season four.

00:25Season four, June 13th.

00:27June 13th. Be there or be square.

00:30Alright, moving right along.

00:32Who from The Boys is in Gen V?

00:35I make an appearance.

00:37I appeared by video in someone's funeral, which is very weird.

00:40Mother's milk gets no love in Gen V.

00:43Yet!

00:44Moving right along.

00:46Is The Boys diabolical canon?

00:48It mostly is, but then if it was strictly canon, we couldn't have it on air.

00:55A lot of what's in the graphic novel is a little too explicit.

01:00Yeah, that's true.

01:01But there is a lot of...

01:02But we're pushing it.

01:04This season, there's a lot of pushing and a lot of pulling.

01:08There's a lot of...

01:10Yeah, thank you. Throw it there.

01:12Can we please do the next question?

01:14What The Boys on?

01:15Amazon Prime Video, baby.

01:17Why The Boys is so good.

01:19Why The Boys is so good.

01:22James, would you like to take it?

01:23I said, why The Boys is so good, the deep.

01:25Okay, the deep.

01:27You're going to laugh.

01:28We're going to get canceled.

01:29And you're going to get mad.

01:30Never.

01:31And you're going to cheer.

01:33And you're going to...

01:35My cry.

01:36Yeah, and you're going to throw up at least once per season.

01:38Why The Boys is so good.

01:39That's why it's so good.

01:40Watch it, find out.

01:42Does The Boys have powers?

01:45The Boys do not.

01:46The Boys do not.

01:47No, but two girls in The Boys have powers.

01:52Kumiko and now that Starlight has become a turncoat

01:55and abandoned any sense of loyalty.

01:59Bitten the hand that feeds her.

02:01She has powers and she's...

02:04in The Boys.

02:05The girls in The Boys have powers.

02:07Yes, but The Boys in The Boys don't.

02:09Okay, we covered that one.

02:11Does The Boys have post-credits scenes?

02:14We have bonus footage.

02:15Do we?

02:16Yeah.

02:17I don't know.

02:18We got bonus footage.

02:19Is The Boys like the comics?

02:20Very much so.

02:21Obviously the premise of the show,

02:22which is actually my favorite thing about the show

02:27is it's flipping the superhero thing on its head,

02:29is a direct take from the graphic novel.

02:34I know that the people that write the comics

02:37like them to be called graphic novels.

02:39Right.

02:40Makes them feel more grown up.

02:41It's a very graphic novel.

02:42Is The Boys raunchy?

02:45No, The Boys not.

02:47You gotta watch it.

02:48There's no raunchiness in The Boys.

02:51Define raunchy.

02:52Yeah, it's raunchy with a purpose.

02:54Is The Boys satire?

02:56There's a lot of satirical elements to the show,

03:00but it is not a straight satire.

03:02A lot of it is.

03:04Okay, well, you take this one then, Jason.

03:07No, it is, it is, it is.

03:08No, there is.

03:09There is a lot, but there's a lot that's not.

03:11It's true.

03:12Does Chase Crawford sing?

03:14Happy birthday.

03:16No, I don't.

03:17Yeah, that's a clear no.

03:18It's a clear no.

03:19You've heard me sing?

03:21It's awful.

03:22Oh, that's mean.

03:23I'll sing like Creed in karaoke

03:25or like Guns N' Roses, I'll try, but that's it.

03:27Creed.

03:28Yeah.

03:29Did you sing?

03:30Ha ha.

03:31Did you sing on the show?

03:32Oh, I did.

03:33It was scary.

03:34I did sing You're So Beautiful to Me.

03:37That's right, I did.

03:38It was scary.

03:39He did a duet with Patton Oswalt.

03:41Ah, yes, yes, yes.

03:43Who does Chase Crawford look like?

03:45Look like?

03:46Most of the time I got Ian Somerhalder.

03:49And who else?

03:50That's about it.

03:51Have you ever taken a picture or signed an autograph as him?

03:53People have actually, yeah, thought I was like,

03:55oh my God, I loved you in like the vampire stuff.

03:57I'm like, yeah, I'm like, come on, get in here,

03:58let's take a photo.

03:59I'm like, I love you too.

04:01This show was great.

04:04Chase Crawford, related to Tony Romo.

04:06He is my brother-in-law, yes.

04:08My sister married him.

04:09We were big Cowboys fans growing up,

04:10so it was very exciting for us.

04:12Did she marry him for her or for like?

04:14He married him for me, basically.

04:16That's what it was.

04:17Are Chase Crawford and Blake Lively friends?

04:20We did Gossip Girl together.

04:21So yeah, we're still good friends.

04:23We text every now and again.

04:24And when I'm in New York next,

04:25I'm going to look her up and we're going to hang out.

04:27So yeah.

04:28Nice.

04:29Chase Crawford.

04:30Eyebrows.

04:31What?

04:32Eyebrows.

04:33Eyebrows.

04:34Give him some eyebrows, bro.

04:35Chase Crawford eyebrows.

04:36They're real.

04:37They're like Brillo pads.

04:38You can scrub the kitchen down with them.

04:40You didn't get that reference, did you?

04:41No, I got it.

04:42You have nice eyebrows too, don't you?

04:44You're welcome.

04:45Okay.

04:47Yeah.

04:48Okay.

04:49Lazalonso, Fast and Furious.

04:50Yeah, he is.

04:51That's true.

04:52That's true.

04:53I proudly can say that I was in one of the original Fast and Furiouses

04:59before they went into space.

05:02Or cars turning into submarines.

05:05Like, we were very grounded.

05:07Over the top?

05:08In the one that we did, and I'm very proud of the work that we did together.

05:12Nice.

05:13How did Lazalonso become famous?

05:15That bathroom scene.

05:17That's how Lazalonso got famous.

05:21Getting wet with the baby oil.

05:23So there was a bathroom scene very early in my career.

05:26What?

05:27Oh, we need to pull this up.

05:28Who's got my phone?

05:30I got my phone.

05:31We should Google it.

05:32Regina King.

05:33Lazalonso oil.

05:36Yeah, exactly.

05:37That's the next one.

05:42That's it.

05:43Yeah.

05:44This is wonderful.

05:45That's a good one.

05:46Is Lazalonso in a fraternity?

05:49It's a good question.

05:50I'm actually not.

05:52When I was at Howard University, every single fraternity was suspended off campus.

06:00And they didn't come back until the semester that I graduated.

06:04Suspended?

06:05Yeah, man.

06:06Black schools at that time.

06:08Yeah.

06:09It's back in the 90s.

06:10They took pledging very, very seriously.

06:14Oh, I see.

06:15And for that reason, there was nobody to pledge while I was there.

06:20Oh, wow.

06:21Yeah.

06:22Lazalonso.

06:23Aaliyah.

06:24Aaliyah.

06:25So at one time in my life, I used to ride motorcycles, and I became very close with the rough riders.

06:33I was on BET at the time, so I would make sure that I would give them love.

06:36So I was an extension of the rough rider family.

06:39Nice.

06:40And when Aaliyah passed away, we all did a big tribute tour.

06:42Oh, nice.

06:43And I'm in that video.

06:44I miss you.

06:45Yeah.

06:46Amazing.

06:47Lazalonso.

06:48Hablando Español.

06:49Lazalonso Hablando Español.

06:50Yes.

06:51So my family is natively Cuban.

06:52I was born in the States, born and raised in the States.

06:54But yes, I still am very tied into the Cuban and the Afro-Cuban community.

06:59Hablo Español.

07:01Me encanta mi comunidad latina.

07:03Y gracias por apoyar este show, The Boys.

07:06Here we go.

07:07Here we go.

07:08I don't know what he said, but I'm going to clap.

07:10Woo!

07:11Yeah, baby.

07:12Jesse T. Usher.

07:14A train?

07:19I'm just reading this shit.

07:21Are you a train?

07:23I believe they're saying A train.

07:25I do play A train.

07:27I like playing A train.

07:28He's awesome.

07:29I'm even wearing A train blue right now.

07:31You know what I mean?

07:32I was channeling my inner A train for this moment.

07:34And you can pick up your A train blue jacket at jessetusher.com.

07:39Jesse T. Usher and Samuel J. Jackson.

07:43L. Jackson.

07:44Samuel L. Jackson.

07:45Yes.

07:46It's upside down.

07:47It's upside down.

07:48Samuel J. Jackson's my cousin.

07:50Samuel J.

07:51Samuel L. Jackson.

07:54Yeah, I did Shaft with Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Roundtree.

07:57One of my favorite film projects that I've ever worked on.

08:01One of the most influential people that I've ever worked with.

08:04He's amazing.

08:05I'm saying.

08:06He is amazing.

08:07Incredibly professional.

08:08Very knowledgeable.

08:10You can just, you know, he reeks of experience.

08:12He's got over 100 movies.

08:14And at the time that we were shooting Shaft, his birthday passed,

08:17and he wore the jacket that had all the movies listed that he had done.

08:20Oh, wow.

08:21Crazy.

08:22Which was kind of awesome, you know.

08:24That's sort of like one of those iconic moments that everyone's going to

08:26remember him by, and I got a chance to see it.

08:28Jesse T. Usher.

08:30Birthday.

08:31Birthday.

08:32Yeah, I get that one a lot because I was born on leap year.

08:34I'm a February 29th.

08:35Oh, okay.

08:361992 baby.

08:38So, you know, people always wonder if that's true.

08:40Yeah, it's true.

08:41So how old are you in leap year?

08:43Leap year years, I just turned eight this year.

08:45Wow.

08:46Celebrating my eighth birthday this year.

08:48Yeah.

08:49And my daughter's very excited because she turns eight next year,

08:52and we get to share.

08:53You have a combined birthday?

08:54The same age, yeah.

08:56She's been planning this for years.

08:58She's like, when I'm eight, you'll be eight, and then we can, like,

09:01I'm like, do what?

09:02I don't know.

09:03We'll have an eight-year-old's birthday bash.

09:04You really should, bro.

09:05I will.

09:06That's amazing.

09:07I mean, she brought it up.

09:08I have to.

09:09I love that.

09:10That's great.

09:11And you're all invited.

09:12I'd love to be there.

09:13Yeah, come break a pinata and jump on a bouncy house with us.

09:14It's going to be great.

09:15Jesse T. Usher.

09:18Hannah Montana?

09:20Why'd you just give that reaction?

09:22I don't know.

09:23Yeah, man, look.

09:24I didn't expect that.

09:26As an actor, you play a lot of roles,

09:28and that's one that I was very excited to be on that show.

09:31You are Hannah Montana?

09:34I'm not Hannah Montana, but I did do a guest appearance on Hannah Montana.

09:37Oh, did you?

09:38I did, yeah.

09:39And that was the last show that I had worked on that had a live studio

09:42audience.

09:43When was that?

09:44This was, oh, my goodness.

09:46I don't know.

09:47I was probably 15 at the time.

09:4915?

09:50Probably, yeah.

09:51What would that be in leap year?

09:54Almost four.

09:55It was three.

09:56It was three and three quarters if I was even 15 when I did it.

09:59But yeah.

10:00Jesse T. Usher.

10:01Physique.

10:02Physique.

10:03Falling apart, man.

10:04Let me tell you.

10:05I don't even know how to.

10:06Jesse T. Usher, physique?

10:08I don't know.

10:09I'll go if you want.

10:10No, that's crazy.

10:11You want me to take this one for you, baby?

10:15So, no, I don't know.

10:18I was born this skinny, if that's what you're asking.

10:22You do work out?

10:23I do work out.

10:24You do work out?

10:25I do work out.

10:26You take care of yourself?

10:27Absolutely.

10:28I watch what I eat.

10:29Yeah, you know, I'm very physical.

10:30Yeah, man.

10:31Things like that.

10:32Okay.

10:33Antony Star.

10:34Antony Star.

10:35At least they got the name right.

10:36How did Antony Star get Homelander?

10:40That's a good story.

10:41I was editing something else, and I put a tape down with an iPad and a spot on the wall

10:46out of anger because my rips were hassling me to do it.

10:49And I said, I don't have time.

10:51And so I literally spat an angry audition out.

10:55I did the exact same thing.

10:56Did you?

10:57I'm not kidding, man.

10:58They called like the day before, like, hey, can you turn in a tape tomorrow?

11:00And I was like, no.

11:01And they literally kept, they like nudged, and I got, yeah.

11:04Were you working too?

11:05Yeah.

11:06Yeah.

11:07I was working.

11:08See, I was unemployed.

11:09Me too.

11:10I was so happy to audition for this show.

11:13Antony Star.

11:14New Zealand.

11:15This is just Google searches here.

11:17Yes.

11:18So, yup.

11:20Yup.

11:23Yeah.

11:26New Zealand is where I'm from, and proudly so.

11:32And we have 4.5 million people.

11:35Wow.

11:36Apparently.

11:37Three sheep to every man.

11:38It's a beautiful country.

11:43Nicknamed the land of the long white cloud.

11:47I got nervous.

11:48I got nervous.

11:50I didn't know where that was going to go.

11:53Antony Star.

11:54Facial expressions.

11:57We just got like three just now.

11:59You memed a lot.

12:00We just got three just now.

12:01Facial expressions.

12:02There's one.

12:04This is my favorite one.

12:05There's several.

12:06I think it was after I had a panic attack on Homeland.

12:10I had a panic attack on stage just before I see the cow.

12:13And was walking along having a bit of a debrief with myself.

12:18And went like that.

12:19And I memed it.

12:21I look like a hot air balloon.

12:24Look like I've got the biggest weirdest face.

12:27And it's not doctored.

12:29And I'm like, oh, I don't even know how.

12:32That meme is great though.

12:34It's so good.

12:35It's my favorite one.

12:36But every time I see it, I'm like, damn, I'm ugly.

12:39I tell you.

12:40Your memes keep the show relevant in between seasons.

12:44Yeah, for sure.

12:45It don't matter how long it takes for the next season to come out.

12:49You're going to get a good Homelander meme at least two, three times a month.

12:52There's a lot of memes.

12:53There's a lot of me-memes.

12:55Yes.

12:56Does Antony Star like playing Homelander?

13:00I love playing Homelander for many reasons.

13:02Eric Kripke has given me a lot of rope.

13:05And we've got a great collaboration.

13:06So we've been able to create what I think is an interesting character.

13:10We also have a fantastic bunch of people.

13:13Everyone except the cast is great.

13:16I'm kidding.

13:17These guys are great.

13:18The cast is great.

13:19The production team is great.

13:20The publicity people are amazing.

13:23It's a very rare thing to have a chemistry set like this.

13:28It's just a very, across the board, decent bunch of human beings, which means a lot.

13:33So, I love playing Homelander.

13:36That was awesome.

13:37I had a great time.

13:38I had a good time.

13:39That was fun.

13:40I think my Google search is Google everything.

13:44We're the best.

13:45Keep searching.

13:46Google.

13:47Thank you so much for watching us do this Wired interview.

13:49We love you guys.

13:50See you soon.

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