‘The Boys’: Paul Reiser Reveals He Gave Steamy Scene to Jensen Ackles
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Season 3, Episode 7 of The Boys, “Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed.”]
Season 3 of The Boys is nearing its end, but the penultimate episode doesn’t disappoint with shocking reveals and great guest star moments, like more from Paul Reiser‘s The Legend.
As the former VP of Hero Management at Vought International, The Legend has seen a lot of things in his day. Still, despite the character’s nonchalant attitude towards lewd behavior, Reiser was a little less cool with it. TV Insider caught up with the actor who is also starring in Netflix‘s Stranger Things to discuss his guest role which almost included some very different scenes.
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Following the “Herogasm” episode’s fallout, Hughie (Jack Quaid), Butcher (Karl Urban), and Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) hunker down at the home of The Legend, much to the man’s displeasure. While Hughie is a respectful houseguest, Butcher continues to hunt down the remaining members of Payback as part of his deal with Soldier Boy.
As for the original Supe, he’s getting busy with not just one but two of The Legend’s employees. The women of a more mature age are seen engaging in a menage-a-trois with Soldier Boy, but the scene in the script was vastly different according to Reiser. “That was originally going to be me,” Reiser says, clarifying, “my character was going to be with the two women.”
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Uncomfortable with taking on such a scene himself, Reiser says, “I went, ‘we’ll give that to him.'” When Reiser’s character was removed from the scene, the actor says, he went, “‘God bless that’s better.'” Ultimately, he went on to say that Ackles “was great” in the scene which saw him sing the praises of older women while smoking a cigarette and donning a kimono.
In the end, Reiser says, “when I watched it, I went, ‘Oh, that really didn’t seem like any trouble at all.’ But I was happy to not be in the midst of that.” And even though this role was a bit of a stretch for the Mad About You actor, Reiser would “be willing to come back even if I wasn’t asked.”
“I might just show up on the set and go, ‘Well, I’m here. Write something.'” Ultimately the experience was “great fun” for the actor who shares, “it was really short. I was there for two or three days, and the guys were great.”
“It’s always tricky to come into a show that’s up and running and is such a well-oiled machine, and I didn’t know what to expect. But they were all so lovely and welcoming and warm,” Reiser muses. So, here’s to hoping for more of The Legend in The Boys’ already-confirmed fourth season as he’s proven himself as a wealth of Supe knowledge.
Stay tuned for more shenanigans from The Boys as the finale approaches July 8 on Prime Video.
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Anyone know who the two naked women were?
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Why not scrap the scene then? It's not like it was something necessary, just a sock value moment that doesn't make any sense, Soldier Boy prides himself in his conquests, in how h*ot the women he has s*ex with are, this scene being given to Soldier Boy probably was Eric Kripke wanting to shock his audience and nothing else.
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Season 3 began with Termite climbing inside a mans penis, doing a coke sneeze and ripping the lower half of his lover to bloody ribbons. I doubt Kripke even considered the scene to have shock value. Also, what the Supes PR image is and what they're really like are very different things. Of course SB projects the image of a man who dates attractive, young women. He also projects selfless heroism, decency, sobriety and honesty - all of which are pure fiction. It's about corporate hypocrisy.
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This is why I thought the scene was very strange, everything we saw about Soldier Boy, he was always after young women, using them to boost his ego, and knowing his age and his bigotry, it didn't make any sense, I'm yet to know one bigot man (especially when they get old) in a position of power that doesn't use women as an accessory, who doesn't walk around exhibiting women as a trophy, they never go after women their own age... it's a scene that should have been scrapped, because in terms of characterization, it made zero sense.
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It made perfect sense. Soldier Boy used the older women, not as an accessory, but because they were available to scratch an itch, just like all the drugs he has been demanding. Powerful types develop reputations for pursuing anything that moves whenever the urge shows up, whether competing to see who can get most interns or even the maid like Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger did.
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I thought the scene was very funny. He's probably older than they are though. The executive sleeping with his employees would be illegal.
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Loved this series when it was funny, irreverent and a great political satire. This season the tone changed, and the violence and degrading sex began to overtake the humor so I have let it go.
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So.. you liked more when a lead was raped by a fish man or when a grown man lactated a woman by force?
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Hey, what can I say, the ratio of humor to weirdness was better in previous years.
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The ratio is still the same. You're just triggered. Others aren't as thin-skinned as you, Allison.
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Maybe it's you who has changed, not the show. The violence has not changed. The political satire has not changed. Nothing is safe from the satire. The alt-right are fair game for mockery, just like Disney/Marvel/Vought or Scientology/Church of Collective. Now it's Fox News and Tucker Carlson/Cameron Coleman's turn.
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It never stopped being funny, irreverent and great political satire. Maybe you've become hopelessly addicted to being offended by things?
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