Parents often support their children’s work, but Meg Ryan has good reason not to watch their child’s streaming program.
Most parents are proud of their children’s achievements and want to support them in their careers.
But sometimes their offspring make it difficult for them, as when their latest work is a violent and total television series in which the character you play is in constant danger and covered in blood. This will make any parent doubt.
“My mother does not look [the show]” The boys Star Jack Quaid said of his mother: When Harry met Sally the legend Meg Ryan.
Quaid, who was promoting in Australia The boysthird season, she told news.com.au: “She says she saw the first season and I said, ‘Did you see the second? and she says “No.”
“And then I said,‘ Why, ’and she said,‘ You’re always in danger, I find it hard to see you in trouble and in danger all the time, as a mother. You’re always on the verge of death. “
Quaid, Ryan’s son and ex-husband Dennis Quaid, said he understood why his mother was not a fan of this particular project involving his eldest son.
“I get it, I totally get it.”
The boys is an anti-superhero series famous for its extravagant violence. Amid his overwhelming criticism of corporate greed and fascism, he is busy harpooning a huge whale with a speedboat, landing all his riders, including Quaid’s character, Hughie, in the belly of the beast and covered in blood and viscera.
Quaid co-star Chace Crawford, who plays water superhero The Deep, said her grandmother would not see the series, while Australian actor Claudia Doumit, who joined the series as an explosive soup, admitted that his grandmother did not know him. series exists.
Jessie T. Usher, who wears a dress as an A-Train sprinter, laughed before adding that her grandmother loves The Boys.
Perhaps it is Karen Fukuhara who has the deepest support from her family.
“My mom saw it with my grandmother and she texted me the other day, we’re on a group thread, and everyone said,‘ You were so adorable ’and blah, blah, blah.
“All the blood and all the nudity were completely skipped. It was a very healthy text that surprised me to read.”
said Crawford The boys it could be hard to sell to her grandmother, especially considering her character’s propensity for love affairs with sea creatures.
When asked if he ever opened a script and just thought, “Oh, no, I can’t,” Crawford said, “Octopus was pushing him,” referring to one of many cases of cross-species seduction.
For Usher, those were the times his toes sucked on the screen in the first season. “That was at least uncomfortable,” he confessed. And then he joked with the producers and writers: “They do very well writing it down on the page, they give it to you before they go on set and then they disappear.”
Crawford laughed and then added, earnestly, “[Creator Eric Kripke]The door is always open, he responds a lot to emails and calls, he is always there to talk to you about the ledge. “
Quaid said he doesn’t know if he still has a line of what he won’t do in the series.
“I’m sure I’ll finally find him on this show,” he said with a smile. “So welcome to all the crazy stuff. With The boys, if you have any questions, it usually means that you are doing something right. You just have to be more discriminating with the help you render toward other people. “
Of course, yes The boys it was purely about the value of the shock, about the explosion of heads, the whale guts and the sucking of the toes, she would not have been nominated for the best drama series at the Emmy Awards. It is the other side of the series that temperes violence.
“It’s really a character-based show,” Doumit argued. “Everything is a bit justified, so what happens to these characters. It’s not just an arbitrary shock. “
Usher said he was very grateful The boys it has a platform to delve into the deeper issues it engages in, such as racism, fascism, or corporate corruption.
“Everyone on this show is a game,” he said. “If there is something to be discussed, we will not shy away from it. I feel empowered. “
Quaid agreed: “I love that we can do a show where we can really comment on the world.”
He specifically named a story from the second season of the series in which a character played by Dawnn Lewis revealed that her father, a black man, was murdered by a superhero, and the timing of the episode with the Black Lives movement. Matter.
“We have these scenes that are very timely, sometimes too timely. Obviously, this is a widespread problem, but it was interesting that it came out at that time. I don’t like the fact that we were so accurate, for the good of the world. be so terrible.
“But I like that we have a program where we can really express our opinions on things, because the world is really messy right now.
“Besides, we can drive a speedboat through a whale, so you’ll get those two moments.”
The Boys is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video