Jensen Ackles couldn’t believe the extraordinary revelation of “The Boys 3”

Before the arrival of the season finale, the seventh episode of “The Boys” was the one in which many fans were left speechless by the twist. And if you haven’t seen it, you better do it, because Jensen Ackles explains the extraordinary revelation before the series finale from Amazon Prime Video.

Towards the end of the seventh episode, Soldier Boy reveals to Homelander that he is his father.something that surprised not only Antony Starr’s character and fans, but also Jensen Ackles himself, who brings to life the parody of Captain America from ‘The Boys’, couldn’t believe it during filming.

In an interview with Variety, Jensen Ackles spoke about the revelation of ‘The boys’which shocked many of the followers of the Amazon Prime Video series and claimed that although he is also a staunch follower of the show, “I hadn’t foreseen it,” the script’s twist on being Homelander’s father.

I just thought the only connection was that they were contextualized the same way, that Soldier Boy was the original Homelander and got in the way and replaced it with a newer, brighter version of the same thing. “

He adds: “But in no way, shape or form, did I think there was any real connection to the bloodline. So it kind of baffled me. ”Jensen Ackles, who previously worked on the creator’s“ The Boys ”series“ Supernatural, ”said these twists are“ one of the things I love about doing serial television. ”

They didn’t know Soldier Boy would be Homelander’s father in The Boys

However, in the words of Eric Kripke himself, showrunner of ‘The Boys’, the revelation of the seventh episode of the series was not there when they started planning the third season, and the idea was born after talking about family conflicts and Parents of Butcher. , Hughie and Breast milk.

“There’s the obvious reason, which is that Soldier Boy was like the first Homelander. So there’s some logic that he’s the father of the current Homelander, “Kripke said. Also, for this season, the central theme is fathers and sons:” It’s about how fathers can convey their trauma, generationally, to their children, especially this toxic masculinity “.

For those who have read the original comics of ‘The Boys’, Soldier Boy is not Homelander’s father, a change that in the series also affected the episode Herogasm, where the two characters have sex, but had to be eliminated, although at the time Kripke did not explain why. The season finale will debut on July 8.