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\nHomelander might be a terrifying take on Superman, but The Boys<\/a> character has a deep love for milk that Antony Starr has kindly explained.\n<\/p>\n

\nMilk fetishes: some people have them. It’s a fact of life that everything is somebody’s something, and in the world of The Boys, it just happens to be that the world’s strongest supe Homelander has one. It’s a trait that makes it a bit easier to laugh at Homelander when he’s not horrifically murdering people, and brings a bit of levity to an occasionally heavy show. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>, Starr, the actor that portrays the evil-Superman, touched on how the whole milk thing came to be, as well as how much he wanted to push for it to get weirder.\n<\/p>\n

“So my memory is it came up in the scripts – full credit to the writing team on this, because it was so weird,” Starr said. “It started with X-ray visioning my Oedipal mummy figure [Madelyn Stillwell] while she was breastfeeding, and me pining like that and having a jealous relationship with the baby. And then at the start of Season Two, I found some of her… Homelander found some of her breast milk in a freezer and lasers it, starts drinking it, gets caught.\n<\/p>\n

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Homelander might be a terrifying take on Superman, but The Boys character has a deep love for milk that Antony Starr has kindly explained. Milk fetishes: some people have them. It’s a fact of life that everything is somebody’s something, and in the world of The Boys, it just happens to be that the world’s strongest supe Homelander has one. It’s a trait that makes it a bit easier to laugh at Homelander when he’s not horrifically murdering people, and brings a bit of levity to an occasionally heavy show. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Starr, the actor that portrays the evil-Superman, touched on how the whole milk thing came to be, as well as how much he wanted to push for it…<\/p>\n

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