It’s been happening quite a lot these days for the cast of The Boys – fans coming out of the woodwork to express their shock and disappointment that the Prime Video series is actually coming to an end after Season 5.
But star Jack Quaid, who plays Hughie Campbell, can’t help but see it as a blessing.
“Every time it’s the same reaction. ‘No! Who do I have to murder!?; ” says Quaid, who together with his fellow Boys stars sat down for a chat at the Deadline Studio at Prime Experience. “And that’s a good sign. You don’t want the opposite where they’re like, ‘Oh thank God.”
Watch the conversation with the cast in the video, and scroll down for photos from the event.
Creator Eric Kripke has teased “there will probably be lots of deaths” and “there’s no guarantee of who’s gonna survive” in the final season of The Boys, which is currently in production through the summer. While loathe to spill too much, cast members like Nathan Mitchell (Black Noir) tells Deadline that “there are some things that are coming in Season 5 that you’re not going to have in your bingo card.”
“I look at the last two seasons … like an accordion,” adds Antony Starr (Homelander). “One piece of the accordion is going out and then this is the compression going back in. There was a lot of setup in Season 4 for Season 5. Everything is gunning towards that climactic end. So it’s exciting at the moment because we’re filming all that.”
To say its an emotional time for the cast is a bit of an understatement. The ensemble has been together for eight years that included big swaths of time between seasons and one rather nasty pandemic. While Starr believes The Boys remains “the most relevant show on TV,” they respect Kripke’s desire to bring it to an end in 2026. (Kripke noted in 2020 that his “rough idea” for the adaptation was to end it in “roughly five seasons.”)
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Jack Quaid and Antony Starr
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Jack Quaid at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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Antony Starr at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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Erin Moriarty at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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Susan Heyward at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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Nathan Mitchell at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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Tomer Capone at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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Nathan Mitchell and Claudia Doumit
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Colby Minifie at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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Chace Crawford at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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Claudia Doumit at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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“Sometimes things go on too long and then it starts to run away from you and you don’t get to tell the story you want to tell,” argues Colby Minifie (Ashley Barrett). “When the announcement came out, Kripke said we get to end it on our terms, which I think is a really beautiful thing. The best stories have a beginning, middle, and end. Knowing the end is in five, we were able to tell the middle really well.”
The final season of The Boys comes after Season 4 topped the Nielsen streaming scores for the first time, setting multiple records for Prime Video. Meanwhile, the streamer has ordered the prequel series Vought Rising, starring Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash as Soldier Boy and Stormfront, respectively, and Elizabeth Posey (Euphoria, Heels) in an undisclosed role. Paul Grellong will serve as showrunner.
Kripke and Grellong described the prequel as “a twisted murder mystery about the origins of Vought in the 1950s, the early exploits of Soldier Boy, and the diabolical maneuvers of a Supe known to fans as Stormfront, who was then going by the name Clara Vought.”
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