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Can Ryan Beat Homelander? The Boys Stars Cameron Crovetti Antony Starr Answer Everything
Oct 23, 2025
Recorded live at Big Texas Comic Con (San Antonio, TX). Antony Starr (Homelander) and Cameron Crovetti (Ryan Butcher) swap behind-the-scenes stories: the infamous roof push audition, the whale crash, milkshakes and breast milk bits, how the Homelander suit actually works, comics vs. show differences, and whether a grown Ryan could take down Homelander. Plus rapid-fire fan Q&A, cosplay shout-outs, tacos, ice cream (hello, hokey pokey), and a cheeky Season 5 weirdness tease.
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from the voice of Mr. Anthony Star.
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Also coming up to the stage is
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sitting there. I'll sit on you. Welcome for five [ __ ] years. All
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right. How was it? It's a lot. It's awesome. It's a lot. Yeah. A handful. Right.
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Well, welcome welcome to San Antonio. Welcome to Texas. Welcome to Big Texas. We appreciate you all taking your time to join us here on stage. By the way,
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earlier I asked the fans again. Hey, one more time. Who's seen every single episode?
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Including Jen V. Let's really get them. Including the
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animated shorts. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, it's like four of you.
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That's good. There's four of them. Awesome. Awesome. And by the way, um Andrew, we have a guy in Homelander
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cosplay. You want to stand up? Yeah. Yeah. There's one over here.
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Good, dude. Good. You know, let's start with you, Cameron. You saw that fan reaction right now. Beautiful fan.
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You've seen everything. What does that mean for you being a part of this big universe? I mean, it means so much. like coming on
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to the show, I didn't know how, you know, bigger we'd come cuz the first season hadn't even come out yet. And then, you know, when it did like Yeah.
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Like the response from everyone was insane. It was amazing. Yeah. Were you intimidated when you came on?
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Uh, no. I mean, if anything, I was just like pumped. I was excited. Like it was the show was like exactly like the kind
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of show I would want to be on. So, it was honestly like Yeah, it was amazing. Yeah. Did you audition for Ryan or was that the whole thing?
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Yeah. Yeah. Tell us about that. Yeah, I I did a self tape. Um, my mom put me on tape. Shout out to my mom. Uh,
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she's here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but yeah, she put me on
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tape. It It was weird because in the scene, it was the scene where I'm getting pushed off the roof
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by hand. It's my favorite scene. Um, but anyways, yeah, it was like weird
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blocking. She like I just like fell off the thing. It was so weird. We're like, "Okay, there's no way like anything's going to happen with that audition." And
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then like Yeah. Like a week later was like I heard I got it. I was like, "Okay, awesome." And you know, yeah. The
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rest is like, "Yes, you have to." But that was your first getting pushed off. Yeah, that was that was my audition.
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That was your audition, right? That was your first day. That was my audition scene. Oh, that was your audition?
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Yeah. I think one of the first days was the roof scene. Was it? Yeah. Yeah. I just remember the bee.
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The be were standing on the roof and a [ __ ] bee came slipping around my face.
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Like made me fall over. Oh, really? A bee took down the ladder. a beat.
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Go figure. Go figure. Well, you know, obviously, you know, Anthony, you know, Homelander, you know, bringing him to life, you know, he's such a I guess I
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guess he's now an iconic villain now. Would you all agree? I
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said, did you say you said he's a villain? Iconic though as well.
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Oh, iconic. I didn't hear that word. I thought it was I thought you just said he's a villain again. Not many people
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said that. like there's some dark people in this room. Tell us about putting on that suit. Tell
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us about playing Homelander. Let the fans know what experience that had for you. Um
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I mean it's it's wild. You know, we've we've we've completed
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the entire show now, which is surreal. Um season 5 will come out sometime next
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year and I think you guys will love it. Um I've seen some of it. Obviously, we can't talk about it at the moment, but
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when it comes out, you're going to be thrilled with it. It's just been such a
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uh I don't even know how to describe it yet. Such a wild ride and such a such a fun
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time working with the likes of Cam here and and and all the rest of the cast. It's just been such an amazing run. And,
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you know, we went through a pandemic, a writer strike, an actor's strike. It was
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just it was crazy, you know. It was just um it's been a hell of a ride and um it
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I I Yeah, I don't know. I still don't know quite what to say about it. Yeah, to be honest. No, cuz we got to cuz
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we're going to launch the last season. So, it's not over. Yeah. Doesn't feel like we finished shooting
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it. We still got to deliver the baby, so to speak. It's not much of a baby. Pretty ugly,
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[ __ ] up baby. But nonetheless, it's got to be boring, you know. Well, speaking of fed up, you
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know, there's a lot of fed up scenes in in the series in the comic, the original source there. You know, do you ever read
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the script one day like, wait, we're doing a what and what's happening? Go ahead. Oh my god. Yeah, totally. Like even the
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roof thing was like a lot. I was like, geez, like like this is crazy, you know? And then especially, you know, toward
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the end of the second season, like the stuff with Becca and like, you know, all of that. It was like Yeah, it was crazy.
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I was like, especially I remember they were like, "Oh, like dude, like Cameron, do you need someone on set to like make sure everything's okay?" And I was like,
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"No, I'm good." Like, you know. Um, but yeah, it's really they're really good about, you know, keeping you away from
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like obviously seeing too much when you're like young, but you know. Yeah. Now it's all they
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is irreparably damaged. Getting pushed off a roof.
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A bee taking down Homeland Commander. Go figure. Go figure. What about What about you, Anthony? uh the scenes now
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does is it almost kind of like y'all are numb to it now when you read the stuff and you're like wait oh yeah that's
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that's typical yeah that's gonna happen oh man I learned pretty early on like like whenever I thought something couldn't work I'm wrong um I'm wrong a
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lot but with this I'm wrong more often than not like there was I remember there was one scene um I've got to trying to
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remember when it was I think it was season one maybe you guys can help when they crashed the speedboat into the whale was
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season one Yeah, it was right
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thank you Jasmine. That's right. Um, so
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I read that and I was like, "Oh, this is ridiculous." They're a whale. And not only that, the
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deep was riding the whale alongside like
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staring at the at them and really sh I just thought it was stupid. I I really did. And I read it and I was like,
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"Well, we didn't jump the shark, but we we're pretty close. Jump the whale." Yeah. See, that's it's I led you up to
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that. Yeah, you did. I I just set that up for you. So, but but yeah, and then it turned out it was my
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favorite scene of the season. It was just brilliant. I I thought it was ridiculous
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and funny. Also very motivated by character. It's the deep desperately
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trying to get back into the seven. So, it was kind of became this symbolic moment for me where I understood that um
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they knew what they were doing when they were writing these crazy uh moments and
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that they would work and so I should just let things go. Let things go. Yeah. What about you,
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Cameron? Any scenes that stand out for you like that you thought like, "Oh, no. This ain't going to work." Gosh. Um,
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I remember for this most recent season, the scene where I have where it's us
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together and we have like the slap where you know PJ uh Adam York the director
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like he gets like slapped and I remember season four. Yeah. Yeah. In season 4.
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Yes. So not most not the last season. Most season 4. Yes. Sorry to clarify guys.
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Not season. I would just [ __ ] myself in. like, "No, we're not going to be able to
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come back to these things." So, yeah. No, I I I remember reading it being like like how we even do this.
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Like, what is like and you know, that's kind of like the first time where like Ryan's like really being like leaning to
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his like Nemo side, I guess, a bit, you know. Um, and then when we filmed it, I was like, "Oh my god, this is amazing."
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And then like watching it, I was like, "Yeah, it worked." You know? Yeah. And especially when I write, you know, Butcher, it feel like it's almost
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like that, just to use an example here, like like the character of Superman. He has literally two fathers.
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He has an adopted father who's like, "No, no, no, no. Stay hidden. You're going to get in trouble. They're going
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to come after you." Then you have the biological dad who's like, "No, go out there, show out, help people." Um, how
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do how do you weave that when you have your butcher and then of course home?
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, as far as like, you know, my character, it's like
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like Brad's been through a lot, you know, like like just a little bit. Yeah. Just a little bit, you know, but it's like Yeah. It's crazy. I mean, as
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far as like he's been through so much and like Yeah. having both dads is kind of like Homelander is more, you know, I
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feel like trying to like pull him into the dark side and, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Just a bit, you know. Um, and
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Butcher is, you know, trying to like take him away from that obviously. And it's kind of like they're both like pulling and
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Butch is a serial killer. I know. No one's good at this.
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With rose petals. I know. I know. Okay. Okay. That's a mass murderer and he's like, "Yeah, but he's taking me to the good
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side." It's like, okay. Okay. Okay. I correct myself, dude. They're both
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You have no good options. It's not exactly two and a half. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Um, but you know,
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yeah, and I just feel like uh it's it's a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Did did you This question for either of
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you. What do y'all look into the original source material the comics to get background like for you? Especially
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with Homelander, you know, what do you see as the difference between how you portray him versus how he's shown in the
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comics? I didn't I did I'll be honest. I didn't look at a lot at the comics. I know a lot of it's canon and we we lift a lot
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of it. Um, but if you if you adhesed or adhered to what's in the comic
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graphic novel, whatever you want to call it too much, um, you couldn't put it on screen.
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Oh, yeah. Cuz it's pretty what's after X-rated, whatever that is, that's the comic.
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Like, there's stuff in it that's just like, you know, I mean, it it is what it
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is. Um, but it's not filmable and it's not doable. frankly like like
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you know I didn't want to play a villain that was um too mustache twirly and
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two-dimensional and so as far as you know any any references that I used to build this character
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there's elements of lots of different real life people and and and some of the
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comics and lifting snippets but ultimately it's got to come from in here and from the inside out. Um, and I don't
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mean that to arrogant me to say I didn't look at it. It just wasn't there wasn't enough there to create a fully fleshed
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out character if that makes sense cuz he's pretty bad throughout the comic, right? You know, it's bad on top of bad
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on top of bad and we don't that's, you know, we don't there's not much um
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complexity in that, right? So, we wanted to go a little deeper. Sure. What about you, Cam? You were looking at the source material.
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Yeah. I mean, please somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure my character like through in the beginning
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I'm not really in Overlord comics as edit like you want to help him out someone
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please yes go ahead this
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yeah that's what I've been told that Oh wait what kills it yes like as a baby like I'm I'm born and
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I Yeah that's how Becca dies right yeah but So, I'm actually really into the
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comics a lot of stuff I can't really say. Um, yeah. What What did you draw from? Yeah.
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You know, that really helped me. Yeah, I know. But And is it hard to turn off that
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Homelander switch? Like when you're on, you're on, you're training, and then
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camera's off and you're still in that mode. No. Easy switch off. No. Easy. No. It's it's like I I I I wasn't um I
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don't I don't know, man. I think there's a healthy way to do this. Yeah. I don't think you need to to each first
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of all to each their own. Like you know I don't like some actors need to stay in and really
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concentrate and do what they do. And that's fair enough. And um with a lot of them the result is incredible. So
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everyone's got their crosses, right? But I think you're going to have fun doing it.
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Yeah. and a home rider suit. I'm sure that's not a muscle suit, right? That's all you, right? That's all me people.
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I'm so interested in lifting up pieces of metal repetitively.
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Joel is just my life. Yeah. Can What's it like when when he's
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in character Homelander to see him bring him to life? What's that like for you as an actor? Uh it's scary. No, I mean I, you know,
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um yeah, obviously while we're filming it's intense, but you know, as it should be. So, you know, um but no, I think it
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actually is crazy how like quick he can switch out of it, you know, like right when we're done. He's just like the nicest guy ever, you know. Uh yeah, it's
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really crazy. Wait, there you go. How much How much was that cost? Was that 20 or just want to get a
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recording of that? Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um no, as I was saying, yeah, it's it's Yeah.
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While we're filming, you know, it's intense, but yeah. off. It's like, yeah, it's totally different. Hey, hey, fans, let's have some fun
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here. Show hands. Who thinks a fully grown Ryan Butcher could take on Homelander?
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Oh, we got some moves over here. All right. All right. All right. Like my people are over here.
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Yeah. All right. On this side, who is booing right now? Who is booing? All right. You start with bandana in the fourth. Why?
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Why do you think it ain't going to happen? All
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right, for those who pretend that Ryan can Okay, leave.
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Uhoh. It's also proven that Ryan has stronger
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laser vision than his father. It was the comment just for those at the back. Yeah.
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And that side that might want to defend me. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we'll do one more
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defense and we'll continue. Why? Why is that false? The guy with the headband. Hit band. Yeah, he stood up.
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I feel like might do it, but he might lose control or he just might not have
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There we go. Exactly, man. There you go. There you go. There you go. Cam, you're not going to defend Ryan.
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All right. Well, thank you all for that help there. I appreciate that. By the way, it's going to be close to getting time for you guys. So, y'all want to
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start lighting up already? We'll ask I'll ask him a few more questions and then it'll be your turn.
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Look at that. Look at that. Anthony, you you take home anything. Take home that
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costume. Take home the cape. What do I do with the costume? Keep it. What would I I would have the best Halloween outfit.
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Exactly. But I would also look like the biggest [ __ ] Can you imagine be walking around in
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Halloween or even worse like just put it in a mannequin in my mouth next to the TV when people come in?
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Yeah. [ __ ] season, Michael. Cam, what's your favorite episode so far that you've been a part of?
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I I'd have to say honestly, the one with the slap. I just I love that episode.
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Why Why is that one standing there? Keep on going back. I know. It was just It was so fun. I don't know. Like I mean, like the whole stuff like the milkshakes, you know? I
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don't know. I just feel like that was like You like the milkshakes? Like father like son. That's all the
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same guys. He's a good boy. Yeah, you said the right word. Isn't it milkshakes?
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Milkshakes. Yes. Milk. Yes. Emphasize milk. All right, let's go ahead and kick it off.
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Let's Let's keep it one question each. Okay. So, we can try and get through as many as we can.
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We're trying to do rapid fire if we can. Go ahead. Yes, ma'am. Okay. So, the boys does a really good
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job in their universe telling me there's a downside to every power. There's a drastic downside that could get someone
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killed and everything. Can I name a power at the top of my head? Can you tell me how this is going to turn out bad in the universe of The Voice?
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Can I name one? Yeah, go for it. Go for it. What if someone came in with the superpower to make you'll break out into
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music? Tell me how that would turn out deadly in The Boys. You'd probably end up with something along the lines of um Cats the music.
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Remember that? That became a weird thing with women and men in catsuits,
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but it was that weird in between real life and not or maybe wicked. All right,
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thank you for the question. It was a It was a joke. We're wicked fant.
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Thank you guys so much for coming to San Antonio. Um, The Voice is easily like the craziest show I've ever seen. Like I
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I can't expect what's coming up next. So, uh, what's a crazy scene that really stuck with y'all? And, um, did you guys
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improvise anything? And did you expect that to stick? Take that one.
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Just like throughout the show, like any scenes or anything? Okay, I remember
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this was the roof scene. Well, we did two versions. One we were actually on the roof and then when we were on a tinier roof. Um I remember he wouldn't
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like tell me when he was going to push me off cuz there was like a little mat off and you know he just went oh and
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then like when he actually did push me I was like actually you know it's like yeah I'd say that was kind of like you know that was a cool moment. That was
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definitely improvised. It was a pretty great little squeal as well cuz you got to remember like we've been doing this
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show now five seasons, seven years and um when Cameron came on the show he was uh he was young. You were young. You
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were little. Yeah. Yeah. And sorry. I I don't know. I think I was maybe 10 or 11.
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You were little. Yeah. And so when you went off the roof
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it was so which made it so much funnier. Made it so much better.
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Yeah. Thank you for the question. All right. Who's up? Oh, Deadpool, you're up. You
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hear me? Yeah. May have to take or at least lift it a little bit. Just take the mouth up.
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Yeah. Yeah. Take your head off. All right. Let somebody else go. Oh,
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there you go. All right. Now, can you hear me? Yeah. Yes. All right. Well, to me, superheroes are
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all about legacy. So, and uh I got to ask. So, I mean, this is our third time
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meeting. Everybody asks like silly questions about heroism. So now I'll ask a serious question. Okay. All right. So you work with Jack Wade
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who has like two legendary legendary two parents that are legendary actors.
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Sorry I lost my train of thought. So okay. So just curious like when when you guys uh to get to where you are like an actor
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you try to actor actress you try to emulate like who who like your like role model when it came to when it comes to
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acting or you try who you guys try to emulate the one you be like? Matthew McConna in 10 years time.
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Yeah. You can I say Jake Gyllenhaal. I just see he like I know he's also a child
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actor, you know, he's done a bunch of stuff, always watches stuff, so yeah, I know. I love him. Good picks. Yes, sir. Both of you play your
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character phenomenally, but I was just wondering uh if you were able to play a different character on the show, what would it be and why?
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There's not a lot of options for me. Uh more towards Anthony. Yeah, I want to hear what you say. And
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as Anthony stares at you. Yeah. Um,
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don't lie. You would love to wear a cape. Yeah, capes are cool. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe in a younger hand, you
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know. That's a good one. I would like to No, no, no. I was going to say the probably black one.
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Oh, black one because like first of all, I don't like learning lines.
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I'm surprisingly lazy. And so that actually I actually feel like it would
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be really challenging. I think he does a great job. Nathan mentioned does a great job. But I think it's would be really
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interesting and challenging to try and uh communicate without Oh, maybe as well
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and like like cuz she's you know except no cuz she had to learn dialogue and sign language which they made up. They
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made up that's way too much work. I'll go with Nathan. I'll go with Black. Nar. All right. Yes, sir. Uh, what has
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been your favorite prop that you've seen on set that you've been tempted to uh take off the set and just keep at your
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home? Camera. Yeah. Yeah.
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I needed a dishwasher.
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Okay. What about you, kid? Go kid. Uh, oh my gosh. I really liked that like
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the like fault jacket I was wearing when I was like from like the season 2. I really really liked that jacket. I
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thought it was so cool. Had like the embroidery and everything. I won't do that. Did you get it? I think.
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Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. I I did take it home.
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Yeah. And nobody tell anybody. Okay. This cannot be through. Yeah. Yes, sir.
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Hello. All right. So, fun fact, um, the actor Chase
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Crawford from The Deep has also the same hometown as I do. And so, my question to
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you is that what about the Deep's character or Chase in general that stands out to you in your own?
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You're from Atlanta.
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Oh, where's that? Up north Texas. North Northern Texas. Northern Texas. Yes, sir. 8 hours from here.
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Oh, okay. where Texas Tech is. Where Texas Tech is? Where Texas Tech?
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Good. Good to know. I'm I'm flying out tomorrow, but I'll I'll dream about that
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tonight. So, I guess the question was, what do you like about the Deep's character?
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I He's just so funny. I mean, I don't He's just every line he says, like the
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way he does it, it just like it's always funny. He's such a funny guy. Um and he,
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you know, he makes it just Yeah. I don't know what else to say. He saw us on awesome.
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Yeah, he's a Chase is hysterical. Um, and he's very sweet. I mean, we got lucky with the whole casting. This is a
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bit more general than what you said, mate. But but we got really lucky with the central cast. Like, there's no one on this cast that that I don't I don't
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enjoy doing scenes with. I'm can't even remember who you do do scenes with except for me and Butcher and your mama.
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But, um, may she rest in peace. after you killed her. But um no, we we
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were really fortunate. We got a great cast. We had a great cast and um Chase was Chase was brilliant to work with. We
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always just sort of go with whatever and it always felt the work feels improvisational even though it's scripted. So, it's a good way to go.
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All right. Good question. Thank you. Yes, sir. Hello. Hey. Uh I have a very important question
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for both of you guys. Important. Yes. What is you guys favorite flavors of ice cream?
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I knew it was going to be one of the tough ones. Yeah. Uh
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Robins Mansion is like
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clapping. Two two types of people. people that clapped and people wondering what
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uh ice cream favorite ice cream. Oh [ __ ] Hokeie pokei. Hokeie pokei.
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What is hoke pokei? Yeah. See the second part of my answer is hokeyp pokei is a pretty
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quintessentially New Zealand ice cream. It's got little bowls of uh Has anyone been to New Zealand?
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There we go. Got a few hands over here. Two people. The Joker.
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That doesn't bode well. Anyway, hokeie pokey ice cream. Google it.
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There you go. It's great. Actually, you meant to ask what's your favorite taco since you're in San
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Antonio. Oh, favorite taco. Oh, yeah. Have you had tacos? I we got you this morning up at Kwood.
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I had a last night. I mean, that's good. Can they clap for that?
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Thanks, guys. 6.0 solo. Yes. Really good. Yeah. First of all, that hoke pokey did
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look pretty good. Just Google it. It is good. It's going to be Mr. Star. Um, you've
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done a lot of commercial work and I've seen you blowing up on like Twitter and whatnot with a bunch of commercials. You did one for PlayStation back in the
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'90s. There was one really weird mobile ad you did recently that you just kind of walked on.
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Tells me that guy seen it. Um, what was the thought process behind these like getting fil behind filming
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these? what it was like being on the focus. They paid me.
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That's that was really it. Here's yours. There was there wasn't like you know those things are um you know it's
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not necessarily a creative integrity thing. Yes sir.
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But I will what I will say though just before stop walking away then
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what I will say is you know I I have I I think that you you're right. I came up
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in New Zealand doing commercials and there's no word. It's very really [ __ ] hard to make a living in as an
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actor. And so I I have no shame whatsoever in in having to cut my teeth.
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Those things kept me able to go to classes and work and you know I still
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had to bartend and I still had to do things. But like for any actors coming out, any anyone starting out or
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anything, like those things are lifesavers. Like you get a rollover on a
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commercial, man, that gives you another year of life. So um kudos to all the
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upcoming actors that uh that do commercial work and uh cuz we all start
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there and it's it's a I'm waffling. I'm sorry. I got it.
26:41
Really? Really? But anyway, thanks for your question. There you go. Thank you, sir. Hey guys, pleasure to meet you. Welcome to San Antonio. Um, what is one
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scene in particular that like really stuck to y'all? Like change the way you you look at yourselves?
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Cam, you want to start us off or guess the roof?
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Did we mention the roof? Yeah. Yeah. Um, oh my gosh.
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I actually felt like for I I really like the scene at the end of um
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I could model the the seasons. I think it was the end of two, right? When you killed your mother.
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Yeah. When you savagely Here we go. Moved your mom.
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But there was a great scene because it's like because you had to make the choice. I've always felt like me and Butcher sort of this kind of like the battle for
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your soul. Yeah. Whether you're going to go good or bad. I I love that moment, you know, there's always a two and fro and in season two,
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you Butcher won, you went off with him. Probably a good move, actually. But then
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in season three, you chose me over him, which was a nice little um which was
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better. But I I I like that. I like the dynamics in that that uh triangle.
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Thought about it. Yeah. I mean I yeah that scene or I think ending of season 3 that was a yeah
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that was a really interesting scene cuz you know that was kind of like the start of
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Ryan kind of like changing a bit you know it was like you know an ending on like him kind of like smirking like oh
28:22
wait is Ryan becoming like oh my dude like what's going on you know and then that kind of leads into season four of like him kind of waffling between both
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and yeah so I think that scene was really like Ryan kind of starting to change a bit Oh. Oh, great question.
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Thank you, sir. Yes, ma'am. Hi. Thank you very much, but this is mainly for Anthony. I'm gonna make this
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really weird. So, in the homelander drinking milk,
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it personally gives me the dick cuz I'm lactose intolerant. Oh, that's why though.
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As long as he's drinking [ __ ] breast milk, he's a grown man and he's completely [ __ ] psychotic. I'm
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lactose intolerant. I just thought of that. I don't like it with
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But do you like if not what is your thought process of like trying to force
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yourself to actually go through? Okay. Well, first of all, it's not real breast.
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I need to break it to you, but it's not real. We don't have laser eyes.
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No, no, no. It's um I started off, it used to be almond, but then I went to
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oat and I've since gone back to almond because apparently there's some kind of
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palm oil in oat milk. I don't know. So, it doesn't bother me.
29:40
Thank you for your question. Little milk le. Yeah. Hello. Okay. So, um, we all know that
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Homelander is the worst, but what is one positive trait about Homelander?
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That's a good one. This side of the room. What is a loudest voice wins?
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What is the positive trait about Homelander? Go.
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Did you hear anything? All of the above. You have a good
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tasting milk. I'm going to go with he's sexy. There you go. Thank you, mama.
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I didn't hear that, but I Yes, sir.
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I had a question for Andrew. Um, did you have any scenes in which you had
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trouble keeping a straight face at all at all? Oh, God. Yeah, [ __ ] everything.
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Most everything. I giggle a lot. I [ __ ] around a lot and and I shouldn't stress so much. Sorry, guys. Um I mess around a
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lot and have I try to keep it pretty light on set. Um
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uh and yeah, I giggle. I giggle a lot. Have we had that? We must have. Yeah, I can.
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What about you? Like a hard Yeah. Just to keep a straight face. Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah.
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You're pretty easy to break off. Yeah. I stuff with the milkshakes. Any of
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that. That was really funny to film. Yeah, we laughed a lot. Yeah. All right, cool stuff. Thank you.
31:18
So, Anthony, I had a question. There's a rumor I saw going around that you might
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be considering playing Wesker in some kind of a Resident Evil movie or show. Is that true?
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Uh, that's You said it's a Ruba. Then then it's a then No,
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I don't know actually what that means. I don't I don't understand. I I know the I know the the words you said, but I don't
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know really what that means. So, it's not a great question. I It's true then.
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Yeah, I want that.
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What's up, Nightwing? Uh, so I think uh Flander is being featured in DCO as a crossover
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character, and I was wondering if you had any creative input on that or just what you want to see from him interacting with Superman to Batman
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characters like that. We're also having a crossover. It's a video game, right? It's a comic right now.
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Oh, a comic. Oh, I didn't even know that existed. I didn't know that. Yeah. That's fun. So, when he's in the D Well, Homer
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riders in the DC universe. Yeah. So, he's going up against like Batman, Nightwing, all that stuff.
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That's so weird. I haven't received a check yet. Are you in it?
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Yeah. Is Ryan Butcher? No. All right. Well, I have to give Jay's gun.
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Yeah. Yes, sir. All right. Who's up next?
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Uh, this is a question more for uh Anthony. Uh, you've said it before that Homelander is mentally exhausting in the
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play. Uh, what's a way that you kind of depress after a long dark set?
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I think I was just trying to make everyone think I'm I'm more serious than I am. No, it is. It's draining. I tell
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you the most training thing you can pouch for this is um is uh we do such
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long days on set and so that um I think the the the suit Well, you can't pouch
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for this cuz you wear normal clothes. I've I've heard that the suit is the suits.
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I Yeah, I remember there was like a cooler or something cuz it gets like really hot. Yeah, there's a cool suit that I have to wear which pumps. It's
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like a radiator grill of plastic and it pumps cold water from my butt
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not from my butt like that pipes come out there and that's not getting better,
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is it? Anyway, pumps cold water around and it gets it is really tiring but also
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it's like mentally and emotionally challenging. You and me have some big scenes, man. We have like It's never
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light. Yeah. with these two. So, it's always I mean, kudos to you as well. You're
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always like he's always very very well prepared and it shows up and he's always game to go anywhere and the scripts are
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intense, man. It's a hard it's it's not an easy dynamic for these two. Yeah. Thank you.
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Thank you for the question. Hey Cam, how's it going? Um, so I got
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like a How out of pocket can I get? Well, let me know. What's it about? Um,
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it's just like a rumor or something like that. Test me. Go ahead. Go. So, I can't I
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can't Okay, I'm going to get to like the live questions then. Okay.
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Um, so Anthony, I got a question for you. I already talked to Cam about this yesterday, so I'm going to go see Good
34:37
fortune today, and I want to know your input. Input. How do you feel about Kean as like an actor?
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Me. I love him. You know, I think he's great. But yeah, what do you want me to
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say? You You just came up looking for [ __ ] gossip, man.
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You came up and you went layers of Christian.
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God damn. You're just trying to find trouble, man. Counter is [ __ ] great. He's one of the best human beings on
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earth. So much [ __ ] And I challenge anyone who goes through what he's been through to
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stay safe. Sir, I got nothing but like mad respect and love for him. All right.
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And you But that was Gi. Yes, sir. Hey, this question could be uh for both
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of you, but um what's something that you guys portray on screen that y'all could take home to y'all's like everyday
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lives, per se?
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Give this one to my friend, but like in a way just like like say Homelander like you're so
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um say like Trying to find a nice word. I'm trying to find a nice word to say.
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Let's make it a yes and no. We'll make it like I'll say ABC D. Um
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I'm kidding. I'm going to go with um loyalty. I think actually if you're on the right side of Oakland, he's pretty
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loyal. Actually, that's not there's not a lot I can say to that. Came with Yeah. I mean, I feel like Ryan's a good
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kid like given what he's, you know, grown up with. The good kid. So yeah. Well, he killed
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his mother, but yeah. All right. You know, he has positive traits and you know that. Yeah. Take home. Yeah.
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Hello young lady. Hello. Hello. I have two questions, but they're more leading to Cameron. Uh, have you ever
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learned a new skill from a role? And what does acting mean to you personally?
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Take it away, Cam. Questions. Um, a skill. Now, I'm trying to think. Uh,
36:45
I Well, I I started um playing kind of like the piano from more my brother, but
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I've done roles, you know, where I've had to play that. I know with The Boys I think when I was like had a scene where I was like, you know, going to like
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piano lessons or something like that. But, you know, that kind of like sparked me. I was like, "Oh, I don't know what if I started, you know, doing that." Um,
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and then yeah, now I've had, you know, auditions and stuff where I've had to use that skill and, you know, like also just like stuff like that as well. It's
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yeah, I feel like you're taking that home. And then what was the other question? The other question was, what does acting
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mean for you personally? And you can answer as well, Mr. Oh, no.
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I think we I'm so going to be a bitter response. Um, well, I mean, what what I love about
37:28
acting, you know, I'm sure everyone says this, but it's like it's so fun getting, you know, play something that you're not and like getting to like do all these
37:35
different things and playing all these different characters. Uh it's it's just so fun and you know as far as like for
37:42
me um I I feel like it's kind of like you like learn about a lot about yourself from like acting and stuff. Uh
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and yeah, it's just very like you know it's an awesome experience. Yeah.
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I I thought the biggest skill you learned is how to fall off a roof. Yeah. Not too honestly. Yeah. I say that
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sure wasn't learning how to fly. I tried. Yes sir. How's it going guys? Uh, this
38:07
question is for Anthony. Uh, you've mentioned before how you don't see yourself in Homelander at all, but fans
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clearly love how insane and unhinged he is. So, my question really is deep down,
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do you still find it fun to tap into that side of him, even if he's nothing like you?
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Well, here's what I heard. You're just like the character. Will you
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admit it? That's what that's the question. I'm just reframing it. I I say plain and simple. If you know
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what I did in your shoes, I would be doing the exact same thing. So, that's troubling.
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I'm going to let's gloss over that. Uh I I actually think um yeah,
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contrary to that, like I do think it's not something that I would scream from the treetops, but
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mountain tops maybe. Um, there is always a little bit of yourself in every role,
39:06
I think, depending on who you are and how you do what you do. But I like to look at it like all those weird little
39:13
dark feelings that you might have as a human, you know, we all go through a lot of [ __ ] in life, you know, and none of
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us get out from that. Um, and hopefully we learn from it and grow from it. And
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um uh and so I look at it like drawing on those those parts of me and then turning
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it up to like 20 on a 10 20 out of 10. You know what I mean? Cuz I don't think
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he's he's a psychopath. And so it's it's um so it's like a therapeutic.
39:41
Yeah. No, you're not going to get it out of me like that. So no, it's not therapeutic, but there
39:46
is always an element of truth, but it's like you dial it right up, you know? It's like you take whatever make the
39:53
anger that you have say and then turn it up to yeah I want to kill people for for
39:58
the fictitious thing you know thanks buddy.
40:05
Yes sir. First of all I would like to say that I think Ryan will be homelander
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Ryan would be a homelander. You would beat him. So would beat him? Yes.
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That's his vote. He's voted for you. Oh fight. We're so mad. Yeah. I need my like people over here to
40:22
Yeah. We're going to start like a brawl between
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the piece, guys. Yeah. Me and me and that guy.
40:38
Yes, sir. But I was wondering why you both decided to take up acting. Oh, why did we take it up?
40:45
Yeah. Why? Why did y'all take it back? Oh, well, my my sister started acting first. Um, and me and my brother we went
40:50
on set one day and you know we just like thought it was so cool. I remember like we like wanted to do it first because of
40:56
like crafty on set which is like for those who don't know which is like the food on set but then you know obviously
41:01
you know it turned into we liked that's why I started acting guys cuz the free food on set. No, but um
41:08
that's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean start auditioning and yeah that's Yeah,
41:14
that's how did the snack call you to acting there? No, I can't. We're in New Zealand. There's no snacks. We can have a card
41:21
with between 20 people. It's a different deal. Like there's no craft services. It's different. There is
41:28
snacks, but it's not set up a bit. All right. Hi. So, with Halloween around the
41:33
corner, I was wondering if Homelander saw a child dressed up as him, would he be flattered that they saw him as
41:39
someone worthy as dressing up with, or would he be offended that these that these little shits think that they could be Homelanders?
41:46
She said intense sanity. Bit of both. Bit of both. You know, I
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like where you went personally with that. I feel like maybe you think that
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kids. I don't know. Do you have kids? No. Oh, that's probably good.
42:05
But, um, just anyone that does watch this knows who this lady is, don't go to
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warehouse trick-or-treating. I'm kidding. No, I think um homie would be, you know, he's he loves his little
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any sick children running around wanting to be him. Any adoration, you know, that's his Achilles heel really is his
42:25
ego. So, I think he'd love it. I think he'd just love that. All right, there you go.
42:30
Thank you, We got to get more Ryan Butcher cosplayers out there, don't we? There's a lot. There are
42:37
There's a lot. I haven't seen as many but I've seen a few butchers around, but um if you'd worn
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Yeah. The little suit that Homelander wanted you to wear. You guys remember that? The old thing of
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homies. Robin, it was so good.
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It was the worst thing I've seen. Oh, you get the last question from the panel here. It's all on you, buddy.
43:01
Uh, you got this, Spidey. Hey guys, um, I know you can't give any specifics, but uh, the new season, does
43:09
it get any weirder than the Tech Night? Oh, the the the tech knife. The tech knight
43:18
cake fart. That's a thing. Um, no, it really is. No
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one knows what I'm talking about. Okay, I'm on my own. Let's just table for one, sir.
43:31
So, uh, does it get weirder that Jansen was, uh, recently Jensen, who is our,
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um, our grandfather, father, our father, grandfather,
43:44
uh, recently said that in season five, no, this is not a spoiler, guys. Just
43:49
recently said that he had to walk out of the scene shaking his head or something
43:54
to that effect. Yeah. Wow. Uh, and I think I know the scene he's talking about, but I'm not I'm not We
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haven't I haven't seen him in a while. He doesn't return to my calls anymore. I don't know why.
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Apparently for 40 calls a day is too much, but um so there's something
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there's some pretty weird stuff coming. Yeah. All right. Can't really say much about it, man. I would I would hate to uh
44:20
spoil anything for you guys because I want to be fresh. Yeah, exactly. All right. Thank you for that question, everybody. Hey, if you
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did not get a chance to talk to Anthony or C, that's not a problem cuz they'll be at their tables. Go down there, get
44:31
in line, get yourself a selfie, all that good stuff. But I'm sure they want to hear a nice round of applause. Let's go
44:37
and give it up for everybody.
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Thank you guys. Thanks for coming out. Good to see you.