One Last Ride with Butcher – Karl Urban Talks Chaos, Carnage and The End of ‘The Boys’
Prime Video’s The Boys has stormed back onto our screens, and just three episodes in, it’s already serving up a riot of supe-bashing mayhem. We’re soaking up every wild moment with absolute delight.
To mark the arrival of Season Five of The Boys, we also had the privilege of catching up with Billy Butcher himself, Karl Urban, for a rapid-fire chat about what this season has in store and his all-time favourite Butcher moments.
Check out the full interview with Karl Urban below:
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Right from the start, Karl was an utter solid chap, who was open and inviting and delved into the utter chaos that audiences can expect from Season Five, along with what it’s like to step back into the combat boots of a character that you can genuinely feel means so much to him.
Karl was very open about how he’d come to build the character of Butcher over the years, circling back to the original IP of the original graphic novel series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, and how he’s been able to push this character to ever more crazy moments from season to season, and that getting the chance to continually play him is like “putting on your favourite jumper, as soon as I put that jacket on, and throw the boots on he’s right there.”
Further describing the offering of Butcher and his ultimate “Butcher” moment as a “luxury of choices”, Urban went straight back to the the original series pilot saying that throwing Jack Quaid’s Hughie Campbell into the chaos, and engaging into a punch up with invisible supe Translucent (Alex Hassell) was a real treat and that the fun of this character has continued to grow from there.
“Right from the get-go, there’s been so many fantastic Butcher scenes, y’know, driving a speedboat into a whale, I mean, no other show on the planet do you get to do crazy things like this.”
With even more madness on the horizon and an ending set to leave jaws on the floor, Karl Urban is making good on his word: Season Five of The Boys will go out with the most diabolical bang.
Season Five of The Boys is now streaming on Prime Video.
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