‘The Boys’ Star Jensen Ackles on What That Soldier Boy Twist Means Heading Into Finale

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Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed,” the July 1 episode of “The Boys.”“What father wouldn’t want that for his son?”The final words said by Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy on a call with a stunned Homelander (Antony Starr) at the end of Friday’s episode of “The Boys” Season 3 revealed a game-changing twist heading into next week’s finale: Vought’s original extra-super superhero Soldier Boy is the biological father of new-and-debatably-improved Vought star Homelander.Vought had Soldier Boy taken out of the picture so Homelander could grow up and take over as the supe in charge, something Soldier Boy reveals to Homelander while also saying he would have been happy to let Homelander step into the limelight. “As a fan of the show, I didn’t see that coming,” Ackles confessed to Variety. “I just kind of assumed that the only connection was the fact that they were contextualized in the same way, that Soldier Boy was the original Homelander and got in the way and they replaced him with a shinier, newer version of the same thing.

But in no way, shape or form did I think that there was an actual bloodline connection. So it kind of threw me for a loop.”Ackles, who previously starred on all 15 seasons of The CW’s “Supernatural,” which was created by “The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke, said this kind of twist is “one of the things I love about doing serialized TV.”“When you’ve got a movie script, you’ve got the beginning, middle and end all right there in front of you.

You can make all your choices about what you want to do in the beginning for the beginning, middle and end, so that it all ties together,” he told Variety.