The Boys star Antony Starr takes great pains to ensure fans he's nothing like his murderous supervillain dictator Homelander, but there's one particular quirk of the character that the show's viewers apparently love to bring up with him quite often: his almost fetishist love of milk, especially breast milk.
"Yeah, like it's the first time. Like it's the best joke they can think of," Starr says on Jimmy Kimmel Live when asked if fans ever offer him milk. "Waiters will play it super cool, then they'll take the drinks order and be like 'How about you sir? Milk??'. And I'm like 'You devil, how'd you come up with that?' I decline the milk, but acknowledge the joke."
Here's the clip, with the, er, milk discussion starting right around the 4:38 mark:
As everyone knows, the funniest jokes are the ones people say the most, especially to the single individual who is the recipient of every last one of those well thought out bon mots. Sarcasm aside, Starr also tells Kimmel that Homelander's milk obsession became a running theme in the show because both he and showrunner Eric Kripke found it to be hilarious.
"As we finished the scene, I called Eric, our showrunner, and I said, 'My friend, it's really funny. It's really funny, we gotta do more with that,' and he went 'Way ahead of you, I'm writing it into every episode!'."
Starr's performance as Homelander is one of the best, most chilling villain portrayals in any superhero story, embodying a narcissistic, emotionally fragile inversion of the inherently good and kind Superman. With the show now in its final season, fans are ready to say goodbye to Homelander whose eventual death or defeat has been the show's driving force. But we'll also miss Antony Starr's homicidal monster, who we've come to love to hate.
The Boys season 5 continues weekly on Prime Video, and you can keep up to date with our The Boys season 5 release schedule. For more, check out our The Boys season 5 recap to refresh your memory on what has happened so far.
