Laz Alonso Talks Bringing 'The Boys' Storylines to Life While at San Deigo Comic-Con | THR Video
Laz Alonso describes how hard he and his co-stars worked on 'The Boys' to bring the storylines to life this season. Plus, he teases season 5 with THR at San Deigo Comic-Con.
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00:00Season four ends with the boys in probably the worst place we've ever seen them in what do you think or hope season five holds for them?
00:07So I've always said that see that the boys have a superpower and that's each other that there's strength in unity
00:15And you know just like you ball a hand and it's a fist. That's us. It's five of us
00:20so
00:21Now that we're separate
00:24How are we gonna channel that same strength and how are we gonna be able to reunite
00:30That's the question that we still haven't heard from Kripke
00:34And that's the hurdle where we start the season off
00:38season three
00:40We also were kind of divided and butcher put us back together again
00:45But butchering putting us back together now, so we'll see what happens
00:49Season four saw mm step up as the leader of the boys. What was it like getting to do that for you?
00:54you know it was tough because
00:56Being a leader you put a target on you
00:58And so that was pretty much the character art that I kept in mind the whole time in season four
01:04was it this guy's got a target on him and
01:09Playing that that level of
01:13Stress and trauma how it affects his already existing
01:17Mental condition it gave me a lot of room to like explore all of that and we ended up doing the hives thing
01:24Which was pretty fun you know mm broke out in hives
01:28and
01:29And it was like a galvanizing moment for him and the team
01:34Eric announced the spinoff Vought rising here today and soldier boy. You know mm's least favorite superhero is gonna be the star of it
01:41I'm bad at doing the math right now
01:43But will we get to see mm's grandfather father in that show at all. Do you think that's great?
01:50That's great. Have you interviewed Eric yet? I'm stealing that idea
01:54No, it makes a lot of sense because soldier boy did kill mm's family
01:58And that's what basically created mm's whole trauma
02:03So yeah, I think is mm's family should be in the prequel why not
02:08Definitely a new idea we're pitching it right now. You need to pitch that yourself get a writing credit
02:15It's on video we have a documented Eric you heard of your first mm's family is granddad great granddad
02:22Need to be in the prequel
02:2555 million people tuned into season 4 of the boys when you hear that number. How does it make you feel?
02:30Listen it made me feel like
02:35Thank you to our hardcore fans
02:38And thank you to our new fans. That's all I can say because you know how it is. It's like
02:44After a certain number of seasons you don't want to repeat the same things and you're afraid
02:49Because people now know what to expect can we still surprise them? Can we still shock them?
02:54Can we still entertain on the same level that we did back before they knew our sticks?
02:59And it was good to know that we still were able to give them something new
03:05You know after four seasons, so we're hoping that season five brings us even another 55 million
03:12Huey really goes through the ringer in
03:15Season four what do you think do you think it was too hard on him that there was almost too much?
03:19He had to go through not at all. No. No I think that like Jack. It's such a great actor I
03:26Think he relishes in these moments, and I think no matter what you throw at him. He wants more as an actor
03:32So another another two actors that I got to mention Erin Moriarty
03:38she played two characters a season and
03:42kicked royal, but
03:44Did an amazing job and Karen who put a careful Kahara?
03:48I mean she works in my opinion more than anybody on the show like she's literally either in
03:55sign language class or
03:58stunt rehearsals or
04:00Singing or
04:02recording a song you know for the soundtrack like she's always doing ten things at once and
04:09This season because I was kind of promoted to now team leader now
04:15I'm in stunt rehearsals every day, so I got a taste of what it what it's like to be like you know okay?
04:20You wanted a promotion here you go
04:23But um yeah, I mean we work a lot. We work really hard, but we have a blast
04:30You