With Episode 5 of Season 3 of The Boys arriving on Prime Video this week, viewers have been handled to a really enjoyable musical quantity starring Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara). The silent character finds her voice as she partakes in a musical dance quantity with Frenchie inside a hospital. Nonetheless, the concept of Kimiko getting her personal musical quantity is not new. It was going to occur in Season 2.
Showrunner Eric Kripke is a big fan of musicals and needed to convey the magic of outdated Hollywood musicals to the Prime Video sequence. And that is one thing he is had deliberate for some time. “In Season 2 of The Boys, we thought we had our alternative,” Kripke informed GameSpot. “And it was going to be this second for Kimiko very related, the place she was going be capable of actually categorical herself and a lot of this season is about, despite the fact that she does not essentially communicate out loud, Kimiko discovering her voice. And so we could not do it final season, sadly. It simply did not match into the story, finally.”
Kripke went on to elucidate that in manufacturing of Season 2, he made a mistake. “In Season 2, it felt steady sufficient that I made the horrible rookie producer mistake, the place I informed her about it. And so I obtained the response final 12 months, really, the place she was like, so excited. ‘Oh my god, I’ve at all times needed to be doing a musical and thanks a lot.’ After which like, I needed to name her three weeks later and be like, we reduce this scene, which is such a rookie mistake. Like, you simply by no means do it till you already know for certain what’s there. And so this 12 months, it wasn’t a lot a shock because it was, I’m making good on my promise to you, Karen, right here is your musical quantity. And you already know, and he or she was clearly actually excited.”
“Oh, it was nice. It was great,” Fukuhara informed GameSpot. “For 2 entire seasons, I used to be coated in filth, coated in mud and blood. And at last, I obtained this clear, colourful, stunning musical quantity. It was actually a dream come true.”
The Boys has already been renewed for Season 4, and this season has been a wild one, introducing Jensen Ackles because the explosive Soldier Boy–one of the villains this 12 months. One of many extra wild moments this season thus far was The Deep consuming considered one of his mates, and actor Chace Crawford mentioned filming it.
In GameSpot’s evaluation of Season 3 of The Boys, Mat Elfring mentioned, “The Boys continues to be top-of-the-line superhero TV exhibits. It is a sequence that is aware of its id and leans in exhausting to it each single season. It continues to develop and evolve the world it lives in with out shedding that id both. The forged is delivering a few of the finest performances of the sequence right here as effectively. The Boys Season 3 is a must-watch for summer season viewing.”
New episodes of The Boys arrive to Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service on Fridays.
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