With Episode 5 of Season 3 of The Boys arriving on Prime Video this week, viewers had 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Showrunner Eric Kripke is a big fan of musicals and wished to carry the magic of outdated Hollywood musicals to the Prime Video sequence.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 instructed GameSpot. “And it was going to be this second for Kimiko very comparable, the place she was going be capable to actually specific herself and a lot of this season is about, though she would not essentially converse 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 secure sufficient that I made the horrible rookie producer mistake, the place I instructed her about it. And so I acquired the response final 12 months, really, the place she was like, so excited. ‘Oh my god, I’ve all the time wished 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 realize 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 realize, and he or she was clearly actually excited.”
“Oh, it was nice. It was fantastic,” Fukuhara instructed GameSpot. “For 2 complete seasons, I used to be lined in dust, lined in mud and blood. And eventually, I acquired this clear, colourful, stunning musical quantity. It was really 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 one in every of his pals, and actor Chace Crawford mentioned filming it.
In GameSpot’s overview of Season 3 of The Boys, Mat Elfring stated, “The Boys continues to be probably the greatest superhero TV exhibits. It is a sequence that is aware of its identification and leans in onerous to it each single season. It continues to develop and evolve the world it lives in with out dropping that identification both. The forged is delivering among the greatest performances of the sequence right here as properly. 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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