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The Boys Star Jensen Ackles Shares More Soldier Boy BTS Looks & More

To help promote a big-screen The Boys Season 3 marathon this Friday, Jensen Ackles shared some great Soldier Boy behind-the-scenes looks.

If you're a fan of Amazon and EP & Showrunner Eric Kripke's The Boys and you're going to be in the Los Angeles area this Friday… and you have a good chunk of the day to kill… and you already RSVP'd because there's now a waitlist… then you're going to get a chance to check out Season 3 on the big screen. Though with our home base being in NYC pretty much eliminates any possibility of us attending, Jensen Ackles shared a bit of a consolation prize with everyone earlier today to help promote the event. And that prize came in the form of some very cool behind-the-scenes looks that you'll definitely want to check out. Oh, and a note to Ackles? If you ever get tired of that coat you're sporting in that second image, please feel free to let me take it off your hands.

Here's a look at what Ackles had to share from the third season, followed by a look back at a special scene from Season 3 and what Kripke had to share not long after the third season ended regarding the fourth season:

And as an extra bonus, here's a look at the Season 3 scene between Soldier Boy and Butcher (Karl Urban) where the two compare notes on just how f***ed up their respective father situations were growing up – and as men:

The Boys Showrunner/EP Eric Kripke Discusses Season 4 & Beyond

In July 2022, Kripke covered a ton of topics in his interview with Variety (check out the complete interview with a ton of other details here), with highlights focused on Butcher (Urban), Ryan (Cameron Crovetti), Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott), Starlight (Erin Moriarty), Soldier Boy (Ackles), and Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell):

So Should We Be Expecting Ryan to Go "Brightburn"? "Ryan is a really important piece of the story because he's half Becca, half Homelander. If Butcher can figure out how to get his shit together and get the kid back, that could be the single best weapon they have against Homelander. But vice versa. If Homelander wins the kid over, that's apocalyptic because then there's two Homelanders. It's like a child drama with apocalyptic stakes. It's like 'Kramer vs. Kramer' meets 'Avengers: Endgame.' So that will be a really rich story moving forward."

How Will Butcher React to Knowing He's on a "Crazy Ticking Clock"? "He's got so much to do that he hasn't done. And everything that he's tried to do up to this point has exploded in the most horrible way. What we find fascinating about the question we're asking about Butcher is, is he self-aware enough to realize that he's causing his own misfortune? Is he self-aware enough to actually see if he can change? Those are some of the interesting conversations we're starting to have for Season 4."

Maeve's Leaving Will Make Things Tougher for Starlight… at Least Until She Returns? "I don't think 'The Boys' will end without Maeve showing up again… We needed a way to sort of gracefully get Maeve out of the show, let her head for the exit. Obviously, we didn't want to kill her and fall into the tropes of gay characters and bisexual characters in shows getting killed. We wanted to do the opposite of that and send her off and give her a happy ending with Elena. The best way to do that was, well, take away her powers, and she's not useful in the fight anymore. And we did that because Annie can't really grow into her own until all the characters that are around to protect her are gone. It was important for her next step for her mentor characters and her protector characters to go away. And so it's only up to Annie. There's no one left but Annie. So what is she going to do?"

Black Noir Is Dead! Long Live Black Noir! "Without spoiling anything, I will just say this: When you have a silent character in a mask, he's reasonably easy to recast… If you notice in the flashbacks of this season, it was a different actor [Fritzy-Klevans Destine], and perhaps the reason we did that is so that if we were to recast Noir, we could recast him with Nathan [Mitchell, the original Black Noir actor].

Just Because Soldier Boy's on Ice Doesn't Mean He Can't Return… Right? "The old TV adage is like, never kill anyone unless you really, really have to. Never close a door, open a window. We'll all have to wait and see, but I can't imagine the series ending without Soldier Boy making another appearance."

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