He just doesn’t have the skillset for it. But now he finds himself in a position where he’s having to be a paternal figure to her son. At the beginning of the third season, he hasn’t had time to process that loss. At the end of the second season, Butcher loses Becca, his wife. To me, it all comes back to the circumstances. Do you relate to Butcher more or less after his decisions this season? It was fun to be able to play in that sandbox and take the character into a new direction that way. ![]() This season was a lot of fun to play because Butcher decides to take Temp-V and get superpowers himself-and very much turn himself into the thing he's trying to destroy. What was the highlight of this season for you as Billy Butcher? (There's a live-action spin-off, The Boys Presents: Varsity, in the works Prime Video released the animated anthology The Boys Presents: Diabolical earlier this year.) So it's no surprise when someone walking by straight-up shouts out, " The Boys!"-the surprise is that it took a full 10 minutes.Īs the show wraps its third season (and with a fourth already confirmed), we asked the man at the center of The Boys for his favorite stories from an out-of-control season, how they could top it, and his reaction to the people online fan casting him as a certain mutant bub in the MCU. It routinely trends on Twitter, and it's expanding into its own cinematic universe. Urban clocks them and gives an unexpectedly chipper, "Congratulations!" with a Butcher-esque twist of mischief.Īfter three seasons of building an audience, the show has gone from genre darling to crossover hit. ![]() "And I certainly don’t ever delve into it in my off-season, unless I’m specifically doing it for somebody’s laugh." While he poses for photos out on the street, a few passersby give him knowing stares, including a couple pushing a stroller. "I’m pretty adept at leaving the character at the stage door," he says. Urban says he relates with his The Boys alter ego, but it's not exactly something he channels in his real life. Butcher, on the other hand, only seems to smile when he has a mouth full of blood. Over a couple of hours taking photos on a hot afternoon in Midtown Manhattan and then finding a quiet local haunt for our interview, the actor smiles often, laughs hard, and seems to enjoy chatting over some refreshments and air conditioning. That Giant Penis From 'The Boys' Season 3 Is Real (That's the fans' affectionate name for Urban's signature mix of his natural accent with Butcher's Cockney.) ![]() But when Urban, who hails from New Zealand, opens his mouth, out comes a distinctly Kiwi accent and a jocular tone, a far cry from Butcher's growling, expletive-laden Cockwi. Same jet-black features, same searing gaze. But for the last few years, his on-screen and real-life appearance have hewed pretty close, and that's what's so unnerving: he looks just like Billy Butcher, the vengeful, C-bomb dropping, supe-hunting leader of the titular Boys. Abrams' Star Trek series and bald save for two black tiger stripes on his head as Skurge in Thor: Ragnarok. ![]() Urban has sported a lot of looks for a lot of roles over the years: golden locks and matching facial hair as Éomer in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies clean-cut and clean shaven as Dr. Karl is a Joan Mitchell Grant recipient, and a finalist in the Art and Olfaction Awards.The following story contains spoilers for The Boys Season 3, through the end of the season.ĪS A VIEWER OF THE BOYS, Amazon Prime Video's bloody superhero send-up, being around Karl Urban can be a little jarring. Her fragrances, art works and fashion research have been featured in The New York Times: Women in The World, Atlas Obscura The NY Post, London Times, Art News, ARCO Japan, Elle Magazine, Allure Magazine, Lucky Magazine, Time Out New York, The View, NBC, CNN, Salford City Radio, UK and WMBR Radio, Boston. She has exhibited her paintings, multimedia art, fragrance installations and musical performance works both in NYC, Italy and UK most notably at The Whitney Biennial, Guggenheim Museum, The Morbid Anatomy Museum, and Stephen Romano Gallery. Karl received her MFA in figurative painting at The New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art, and BFA in painting at Cornell University. Karl is a professor of The Art of Scent and The Cult of Fashion at Pratt Institute and The Art of Perfume at School of Visual Arts, and is a contributing writer for Perfume & Flavorist Magazine, Art 511 Magazine, and Venefica Magazine. Karl is a regular lecturer on fragrance, fashion and art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morbid Anatomy Museum, where she held the post of House Perfumer. Her fragrance work has been both exhibited as art, and sold as perfume nationally and internationally. Alexis Karl is a multimedia artist and perfumer, founder and perfumer of Scent By Alexis and co-founder and perfumer of House of Cherry Bomb.
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