Eric Kripke talks about Soldier Boy and Jensen’s casting
As season 2 of The Boys gets to its end, Eric Kripke gave several interviews where he talked about what we can expect from Soldier Boy in season 3. Besides that, he gave more details about the casting and Soldier Boy’s costume which Jensen will wear, confirming what Jensen has said in another interview.
Season 3 will also introduce Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) to the show. Will he be the innocent of the comics or are you going to make him one of the more ruthless supes?
I think anyone expecting Jensen to show up and be a good guy, they will be disappointed. I’ll say that! [Laughs] In the comics he’s mostly just kind of bumbling and subservient to Homelander, I would say. As we’re writing him in this, we’re getting to really talk about the history of Vought because he’s like John Wayne: He’s one of these guys that’s been around for decades of Vought history. And he was Homelander before Homelander, so he’s from a different era, but he’s got the ego and the ambition — it just comes across in a different way because he’s from a different time.
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Though the crew still doesn’t have a firm start date for when production might begin on season 3 in Toronto, given all the unknowns around the COVID-19 environment, Kripke says costume designer Laura Jean Shannon already began construction on Soldier Boy’s costume, as well as “a couple of other suits that we’re going to be seeing in season 3.”
Kripke knows his fellow Supernatural executive producer Robert Singer would probably call for his head if he cast Ackles on The Boys before the CW hit was ready to wrap. “Like, literally murder me,” Kripke jokes. “So, I would certainly keep my distance, but I’m such a fan of Ackles as an actor. No surprise! And I just think that there’s nothing that guy can’t do. He’s incredible at action and drama and comedy and romance. He’s the real deal.”
When it came time to cast Soldier Boy, Ackles wasn’t on Kripke’s initial radar for the part. “My assumption was, he’s just finished his 15 years [on Supernatural]. I can’t imagine he wants to dive into another project,” Kripke says. “But, as luck would have it, he called me for a completely other issue. He wanted to pick my brain about a project.”
During that conversation, Ackles asked his former boss about what he was working on. That’s when the topic of casting Soldier Boy on The Boys came up, and Kripke sent Ackles the audition pages for consideration. “He texted me back in three minutes and said, ‘I definitely want to do this!'” Kripke recalls. “Within a week he was booked, but it wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t just randomly called. I hadn’t talked to him in months.”
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“One of the things I love most about the world in [The Boys] comic books isn’t just how fleshed out it is, but the history of it. It goes back 60, 70 years and it’s just as fleshed out as it is today,” Kripke tells EW. “One of the reasons that we’re getting into Soldier Boy [in season 3] and that team, Payback, is we’re interested in exploring a little bit of how we got here. Through the history of the supes, we can tell a little bit about the history of America and how we ended up in the current fraught position that we’re in. Soldier Boy gives us an opportunity to do that.”
In the comics, created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, Soldier Boy is a spoof of Captain America. He’s technically the leader of Payback, a lesser superhero team to the Seven that consists of characters like Eagle the Archer, Tek Knight, Swatto, Crimson Countess, and, yes, Stormfront. But he’s easily outranked by the more forceful Stormfront due to a weak will and an obsession with becoming a member of the Seven.
On the show, Soldier Boy is pegged as the original superhero and his team, Payback, “was the Seven before the Seven,” Kripke says. Most of the characters associated with Payback either appear or are referenced in season 2.
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The cast of the show also gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly where they talk their expectations about working with Jensen and the impact of Soldier Boy on season 3 storyline.
Forgot to mention this is owed to you guys great job on supernatural both me and my wife have all of your DVD’s of all seasons of supernatural we like em great actors and producer need a word of thanks.
Eric I will keep you posted on my upcoming comic books titled Cousins of the Universe
Revival of the Galaxies my main character is Planetanman which he gets his abilities from planets and he can Hoover in space and command planets to come forth and also split planets in half. IhaI have created characters cousins of Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy the Rocketeers 3. IAM in the creation phase of writing them but they are all going to tied in to Marvel’s Avengers movies. I have posted them on Facebook and Robert Downey Jr’s website Ironman and Johnny Depp his web we like pirates of the Caribbean we also like supernatural and All of Marvel’s Avengers we like good movies like they just make you feel good . I will keep you posted on the progress of my Comic books