‘The Boys’: Jensen Ackles To Return As Series Regular In Fifth & Final Season
deadline.comBefore he embarks on headlining The Boys prequel series Vought Rising alongside Aya Cash, Jensen Ackles will be a major part in the mothership’s upcoming fifth and final season.
During The Boys’ Comic-Con panel, on which Ackles made a surprise appearance to announce Vought Rising, The Boys developer, executive producer and showrunner Eric Kripke revealed that Ackles will be returning as a series regular for Season 5 of the mothership series, reprising his Soldier Boy character. “We can announce that Soldier Boy will be a regular in Season 5,” Kripke said. “The motherf*cker’s back.” (You can watch the video below.) Kripke had previously said in a 2022 interview, “We’ll all have to wait and see, but I can’t imagine the series ending without Soldier Boy making another appearance.” Ackles’ return was teased in the recent Season 4 finale.
Soldier Boy, who was a series regular character when it was introduced in Season 3, was MIA in Season 4 before making a return in a finale post-credits scene.
In it, after Senator Calhoun is sworn in as the new President, he takes Homelander to a chamber where Soldier Boy — Homelander’s biological father– is lying in a drug-induced slumber he was put into by Grace Mallory in the Season 3 finale.
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