The Boys Season 3: The twist of the first episode explained by the actors

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The 3rd season of The Boys has started, the first three episodes of which are available on Prime Video from Friday. The story begins a year after the events of Season Two, when Hugh (Jack Quaid) now works with Victoria Neumann (Claudia Dumit) at the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs.

And if the viewer, from the end of the previous season, knows that the politician is actually a super payman at Vought, the young man has no idea and therefore happily works beside him, no doubt in his double affair.

“I think the biggest challenge in this is, as an actor, knowing that you will definitely go downhill, but try to put it aside and show yourself that everything is fine. Especially since viewers know that Victoria Neumann is super and she was the one who blew people’s heads last season, a phrase that never gets old. And is this dramatic twist that makes you talk more than the characters“- explains Jack Quaid in an interview variety.

He continues: “So to be honest, at first there was something weird about those scenes with a smile on my face. That’s really not what I’m used to on the show, to be a happy, lucky person that ends their lives.“

“But I just knew it would be so juicy when eventually Hugh learns the truth about Neumann and feels so betrayed. He realizes that he will have to go back to this life he wanted to leave. Because he is starting to be too idealistic, he wants to believe that there is a right way to overthrow the superheroes and that the justice system will win“, The actor continues.

And Jack Quaid concludes:

But then everything falls apart. And I think it’s really heartbreaking for him because he thought he finally had a solution.

Also during a very bloody scene, Hugh finds a pot of roses that interrupts his calm. It’s a frustration for the character, but not for the audience, who are generally eager for this type of action scene, as Claudia Dumit notes: “According to the true tradition of The Boys, at the end of the first episode, we saw enough and we need blood, we want chaos.“

The revelations do not stop there either, as in the next episode Stella’s companion discovers that in addition to being a superhero who blows his head off, the one who thought his friend is the daughter-in-law of Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito), the president. Quarreled. What should push him back towards the boys and their faster and less legal methods of fighting the superstars!

Our interview with the actors of the TV series: