‘The Boys’ Stars Jack Quaid and Claudia Doumit on Hughie and Victoria Neuman’s Premiere Twist

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Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Payback,” “The Only Man in the Sky” and “Barbary Coast,” the first three episodes of “The Boys” Season 3.Everything is finally going well for Hughie (Jack Quaid) in “The Boys” Season 3 premiere until, as star Claudia Doumit puts it to Variety, “In true ‘Boys’ fashion, just at the end of the first episode, we’ve seen enough of that and we need blood, we want chaos.”After spending the year following the Season 2 finale working for Congresswoman Victoria Neuman (Doumit) at the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs, Hughie finds out at the end of Friday’s Season 3 premiere that Neuman is a supe herself.

She kills an innocent man from her past to keep her status quiet, not knowing Hughie is watching in the shadows, horrified to learn who his colleague and friend truly is. “I think the biggest challenge in that is, as an actor, knowing that it’s inevitably going to go downhill, but trying to put that aside and make yourself believe that things are going well,” Quaid said. “Especially since the audience knows that Victoria Neuman is a supe and was the one exploding people’s heads, a sentence that never gets old, last season.

And there’s that dramatic irony there where you know more than the characters. So it felt kind of odd at first, to be honest, to have a smile on my face during those scenes.

Like that’s not really a thing that I’m used to on the show, being the happy-go-lucky person who is fulfilled in their life.