Homelander"does all this horrible stuff, yet he's desperately trying to be a good father," says Antony Starr, pictured here with Ryan Butcher, who plays Homelander's son, Ryan.
It’s funny, yeah, it depends what it is. Because I’m a little bit obsessive, once I start a job, I wanna go as deep as possible. I think what you realize, especially with a really dark character, is you are constantly thinking from the perspective of a guy with deep-seated emotional, mental, and emotional instability from a terrible upbringing.
Yeah, that’s never gonna feel good. Lasering something, literally standing there going, doing this little head move and looking very serious. And then trying to figure out the correct distance to hit something. I remember when Butcher first got superpowers. And I remember Karl afterwards saying, “Fuck, I had no idea how stupid I was going to feel doing laser eyes.” I’m like, “Welcome to my world, my brother. You look cooler than me, and you don’t have to do that every day.