The Boys star Jack Quaid loves exploring Hughie's "evolving" relationship to gore.
On The Boys Official Podcast's latest episode, "Blood, Guts & Lucy the Whale," Quaid discussed his character's development, highlighting Hughie's frequent encounters with buckets of viscera. With Season 3 of The Boys promising to be the goriest yet, Quaid shared how he wants to continue the show's running gag of a squeamish Hughie soaked in blood.
When asked about Season 2's iconic whale scene and how he felt about the gore it entailed, Quaid stated, "For the whale, Hughie gets covered in blood and we follow Hughie for the next several hours of his life. What that means for me is weeks of going on to the set and getting covered in blood first thing [every day]. It's hard to move, your clothes stick to your skin, it becomes hot and sweaty and the blood hardens on you to the point where your hair is basically a helmet."
"But I love the tradition of Hughie being covered in goo," The Boys star clarified. "Like, I just think that it's really fun. I wanna find a way to kind of evolve that over time to where Hughie gets less and less freaked out by it because of how used to it he must be at this point. No, I never want that to stop, despite how inconvenient that can be for me, the actor."
The Boys is based on the comic book series of the same name co-created by artist Darick Robertson and writer Garth Ennis. Similar to the comic, the television adaptation follows the Boys, a group that's taken it upon themselves to strike back against corrupt Supes and the sinister corporation Vought International.
The Amazon Prime series premiered in 2019 and the Critics' Choice Super Award-winning Season 2 debuted in 2020. In February, Eric Kripke confirmed that filming for The Boys Season 3 began. The Boys is also receiving an R-rated, college-themed spinoff series.
Amazon Studios' The Boys stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as the Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander and Aya Cash as Stormfront. Seasons 1 and 2 are currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Source: The Boys: The Official Podcast, via Twitter
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