‘The Boys’ Antony Starr Explains Origins Of Homelander’s Milk Fetish: “It’s Become A Really Fun Thing”

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Antony Starr‘s thirst is real when it comes to a good running joke. The star of The Boys looked back on his pseudo-superhero character Homelander’s unexpected milk fetish that emerged in the first season and has since become his and showrunner Eric Kripke‘s humorous wink to die-hard fans. “So my memory is it came up in the scripts — full credit to the writing team on this, because it was so weird,” he recalled to Rolling Stone. “It started with X-ray visioning my Oedipal mummy figure [Madelyn Stillwell as played by Elisabeth Shue] while she was breastfeeding, and me pining like that and having a jealous relationship with the baby.

And then at the start of Season Two, I found some of her … Homelander found some of her breast milk in a freezer and lasers it, starts drinking it, gets caught.” Starr continued, “And it was so funny and weird, and I think I sent Eric an email after that scene going, ‘Dude, we gotta get as much milk in this show as possible.

This is gonna be like a little motif or a signature thing. Like, we have to do it.’ And he was like, ‘One step ahead of you, brother.

I’m putting it in everything.’ And so now every opportunity we get, the milk thing comes out. We don’t have to do anything with it, either.