There have been scenes where we’ve had to tear each other apart. With some actors you can’t – some actors will pull back, and neither of us do, really.
Helena Bonham Carter (Princess Margaret) & Ben Daniels (Lord Snowdon) in ‘The Crown.’
Shailene Woodley news alert! A new Entertainment Weekly cover for Divergent and a new poster for ‘The Spectacular Now’! However, her role as Mary Jane in The Amazing Spiderman has been cut! What a week for Shailene!
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress and activist paris jackson unveiled her brand-new single entitled “lighthouse” out now via Republic Records—listen to “lighthouse” HERE. The song was produced by singer, songwriter, musician and producer Butch Walker.
The single is released alongside the official music video, which was inspired by the iconic video for Nirvana‘s “Sliver.” In the…
Entertainment Weekly has revealed four new collectible covers that will grace their upcoming issue featuring the stars of AMC’s The Walking Dead including Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan and Danai Gurira.
Silver Sparrow author Tayari Jones spins the tale of newlyweds Celestial and Roy, an artist and executive, respectively, who try to grasp their own version of American Dream in the New South. A wrench gets thrown into that plan, though, when Roy is sentenced to 12 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, and Celestial ends up growing closer to her childhood friend Andre in Roy’s absence. But five years later, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta eager to re-start his life with Celestial, only to find that things aren’t how he left them at all.
Jensen Ackles finally got his shot to play Captain America. That is, the Captain America of the world of The Boys.
In season 3, Ackles stars as Soldier Boy, a supe modeled after Marvel’s First Avenger but who is really anything but. He’ll be making his debut when Amazon Prime Video’s superhero satire returns June 3.
Many fans have pointed out that Ackles, a veteran of the CW’s Supernatural, once auditioned for the role of Cap, which ultimately went to Chris Evans, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s what they believed for many years, and that’s what has been peddled around the internet. Ackles, however, confirms to EW that while he may have been in contention for a brief time, it was so brief he never actually auditioned.
“Did I audition for Captain America? No, I did not,” Ackles says during a sit-down interview for EW’s The Boys season 3 cover shoot. “I don’t necessarily know, was that an auditioning kind of a thing? I feel like they just met with people on that.”
Ackles further clarifies that he “never got the opportunity to even talk to anybody” about the Cap job because of his busy schedule.
“I was not available, anyway. So, I don’t think they were going to work around my schedule. Doesn’t seem like a kind of property that would do that,” he continues. “I would’ve loved to have been in the mix on that because Chris [Evans] and I used to go against each other for quite a bit on a lot of different things back in the day. But, unfortunately, I didn’t get to fight him on that one.”
Ackles feels like he at least gets his shot now with Soldier Boy.
In the universe of The Boys, supes are not born, they are made. The Vought International corporation created a serum, Compound V, that grants people superhuman abilities. They injected babies with the pharmaceutical advancement and later sold their legion of grown supes as God’s chosen heroes. Soldier Boy was the very first superhero Vought packaged for the masses.
“It’s Captain America on his ass,” Ackles says. “It’s as if Captain America gave up super-heroism and was just your drunk and inappropriate uncle.”
Soldier Boy led Payback, Vought’s first premiere team of superheroes, who were active during World War II. But the Boys crew — Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), Frenchie (Tomer Capone), and Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) — encounter him in the present day.
He’s kind of like Evans’ time-displaced super-soldier. He’s even got a shield. He’s just a total a–hole.
According to Ackles, “He’s old school. He’s from an era that is being close to forgotten, a time passed. He was World War II. He partied with Hefner in the Playboy mansion. This was just a different type of character. And he certainly represents, I think, a lot of that toxic masculinity that is so deeply rooted in a lot of what our society feels.”
The Boys premieres the first three episodes of season 3 on Amazon June 3 before moving into a one-episode-a-week release.
“It’s Captain America on his a–,” says Ackles. “It’s as if Captain America gave up superheroism and was just your drunk and inappropriate uncle.” More than that, this super-soldier emits toxic masculinity like it’s exhaust — another concept at the forefront of season 3. “It’s mind-blowing how the most powerful white dudes in the world are the ones that are first to claim that they’re being victimized and disenfranchised and persecuted,” Kripke elaborates. “We’re trying to call attention to what bulls— that is.”
Ackles recalls how Kripke would actively try to push the limits of what you could show on screen during their days working on the WB/CW’s Supernatural. The showrunner felt like a caged lion at the time — or at least a lion caged by Standards and Practices censors. To some extent, Ackles knew what he was getting into when, after Supernatural’s conclusion in 2020, the pair decided to work together again on The Boys, this time with the narrative liberties that come with making a show for a subscription streaming platform. Still, Kripke managed to push the actor to the edge.
Ackles was game for just about everything season 3 had to throw at him, except for one part of the Soldier Boy arc. The actor called up Kripke after reading the scripts and, based on the pair’s accounts of that call, the conversation went something like this: “As a father of three, and a son and a husband and a self-respecting human being, I can’t do this. I didn’t know where my line was, but you found it.” For now, they both decline to say what this scene entailed exactly, but Kripke admits to laughing when he got Ackles’ call. Not that he found the situation funny. It was more the thought that maybe they had finally pushed the TV limits too far. “We worked out a compromise where I got what I needed without him destroying his soul,” Kripke says.
Urban sees it as a good sign: “When Jensen Ackles is making calls like, ‘I don’t know if I can do this,’ that’s when you know you’re in the right place.” It’s clear the cast has a lot of faith in Kripke’s vision. When he asks someone to climb into a dead whale carcass, the reply would likely be, “In what shoes?” So, when it was finally time to adapt something that faithful fans of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s original The Boys comics have been waiting years to see realized, everyone was on board.
Jensen Ackles finally got his shot to play Captain America. That is, the Captain America of the world of The Boys.
In season 3, Ackles stars as Soldier Boy, a supe modeled after Marvel’s First Avenger but who is really anything but. He’ll be making his debut when Amazon Prime Video’s superhero satire returns June 3.
Many fans have pointed out that Ackles, a veteran of the CW’s Supernatural, once auditioned for the role of Cap, which ultimately went to Chris Evans, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s what they believed for many years, and that’s what has been peddled around the internet. Ackles, however, confirms to EW that while he may have been in contention for a brief time, it was so brief he never actually auditioned.
“Did I audition for Captain America? No, I did not,” Ackles says during a sit-down interview for EW’s The Boys season 3 cover shoot. “I don’t necessarily know, was that an auditioning kind of a thing? I feel like they just met with people on that.”
Ackles further clarifies that he “never got the opportunity to even talk to anybody” about the Cap job because of his busy schedule.
“I was not available, anyway. So, I don’t think they were going to work around my schedule. Doesn’t seem like a kind of property that would do that,” he continues. “I would’ve loved to have been in the mix on that because Chris [Evans] and I used to go against each other for quite a bit on a lot of different things back in the day. But, unfortunately, I didn’t get to fight him on that one.”
Ackles feels like he at least gets his shot now with Soldier Boy.
In the universe of The Boys, supes are not born, they are made. The Vought International corporation created a serum, Compound V, that grants people superhuman abilities. They injected babies with the pharmaceutical advancement and later sold their legion of grown supes as God’s chosen heroes. Soldier Boy was the very first superhero Vought packaged for the masses.
“It’s Captain America on his ass,” Ackles says. “It’s as if Captain America gave up super-heroism and was just your drunk and inappropriate uncle.”
Soldier Boy led Payback, Vought’s first premiere team of superheroes, who were active during World War II. But the Boys crew — Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), Frenchie (Tomer Capone), and Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) — encounter him in the present day.
He’s kind of like Evans’ time-displaced super-soldier. He’s even got a shield. He’s just a total a–hole.
According to Ackles, “He’s old school. He’s from an era that is being close to forgotten, a time passed. He was World War II. He partied with Hefner in the Playboy mansion. This was just a different type of character. And he certainly represents, I think, a lot of that toxic masculinity that is so deeply rooted in a lot of what our society feels.”
The Boys premieres the first three episodes of season 3 on Amazon June 3 before moving into a one-episode-a-week release.
Jensen Ackles finally got his shot to play Captain America. That is, the Captain America of the world of The Boys.
In season 3, Ackles stars as Soldier Boy, a supe modeled after Marvel’s First Avenger but who is really anything but. He’ll be making his debut when Amazon Prime Video’s superhero satire returns June 3.
Many fans have pointed out that Ackles, a veteran of the CW’s Supernatural, once auditioned for the role of Cap, which ultimately went to Chris Evans, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s what they believed for many years, and that’s what has been peddled around the internet. Ackles, however, confirms to EW that while he may have been in contention for a brief time, it was so brief he never actually auditioned.
“Did I audition for Captain America? No, I did not,” Ackles says during a sit-down interview for EW’s The Boys season 3 cover shoot. “I don’t necessarily know, was that an auditioning kind of a thing? I feel like they just met with people on that.”
Ackles further clarifies that he “never got the opportunity to even talk to anybody” about the Cap job because of his busy schedule.
“I was not available, anyway. So, I don’t think they were going to work around my schedule. Doesn’t seem like a kind of property that would do that,” he continues. “I would’ve loved to have been in the mix on that because Chris [Evans] and I used to go against each other for quite a bit on a lot of different things back in the day. But, unfortunately, I didn’t get to fight him on that one.”
Ackles feels like he at least gets his shot now with Soldier Boy.
In the universe of The Boys, supes are not born, they are made. The Vought International corporation created a serum, Compound V, that grants people superhuman abilities. They injected babies with the pharmaceutical advancement and later sold their legion of grown supes as God’s chosen heroes. Soldier Boy was the very first superhero Vought packaged for the masses.
“It’s Captain America on his ass,” Ackles says. “It’s as if Captain America gave up super-heroism and was just your drunk and inappropriate uncle.”
Soldier Boy led Payback, Vought’s first premiere team of superheroes, who were active during World War II. But the Boys crew — Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), Frenchie (Tomer Capone), and Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) — encounter him in the present day.
He’s kind of like Evans’ time-displaced super-soldier. He’s even got a shield. He’s just a total a–hole.
According to Ackles, “He’s old school. He’s from an era that is being close to forgotten, a time passed. He was World War II. He partied with Hefner in the Playboy mansion. This was just a different type of character. And he certainly represents, I think, a lot of that toxic masculinity that is so deeply rooted in a lot of what our society feels.”
The Boys premieres the first three episodes of season 3 on Amazon June 3 before moving into a one-episode-a-week release.
entertainmentweekly: Being Emmy-nominated won’t make #TheBoys pull its punches. Season 3 shakes up prestige TV with even wilder superhero debauchery. Karl Urban, Jensen Ackles, Antony Starr, Jack Quaid, creator Eric Kripke, and more dive into what might be “the most insane season of TV ever filmed.” Tap our link in bio. : @kiwiwarding for EW (x)
