How Antony Starr Improvised A Key A-Train Moment In 'The Boys'

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Jessie T. Usher, who plays A-Train, breaks down the iconic scene where he laughs in Homelander's face. He reveals the idea actually came from co-star Antony Starr and explains the character's feeling of relief and realization of how absurd the situation was.

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00:00To be honest with you, that laugh came out in one of the later takes that we had done,

00:09and it was actually Antony's idea. Antony comes to me and he just asked,

00:14do you think A-Train's happy about this? And I was like, I think he's relieved.

00:21I feel like he's relieved. And at the end of the road, I think the very last thing that he

00:27realizes is how ridiculous all of this has been. I'm watching Antony play Homelander and he's just

00:36like huffing and puffing and he's really angry and I'm looking around at the crew and I just go,

00:43I just start chuckling, you know what I mean? And then I see him get infuriated in character and it

00:50makes it even funnier. It just makes it funnier. It's like, what are we doing? You know what I

00:54mean? It's just such a real, like a very honest moment for A-Train to have where he had been

01:01so

01:01scared for so long. And I say, I say this all the time. It's the moment where the kid opens

01:07the

01:07closet door and realizes that the boogeyman is not real. You know what I mean? It's like,

01:12who is this dude? Like, bro, you're wearing tights. You know, it's like, this is ridiculous.

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