You’re The Worst’s Aya Cash will be joining Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys as a brand new superhero called Stormfront, and EW has revealed a first look at her in full costume.
EW shared two images, as well as the first details on what Stormfront will bring to The Boys’ second season.
“She’s the grenade that gets thrown into Homelander’s world and the world of the Seven,” says Antony Starr, who plays Homelander, the leader of The Seven. “She really causes me so many problems.”
In The Boys comic series, Stormfront is “male, a riff on Thor and Shazam! with a little Nazism thrown in.” However, this version of Stormfront will come “with her own agenda.”
“I think Stormfront is like a nuclear bomb that goes off in the Seven,” Explains Cash. “Maybe nuclear bomb isn’t the right word. We’re in Chernobyl. There you go. It’s a Chernobyl thing.I think she’s here to blow up Vought. She’s here to try to get Vought back to the original idea behind creating superheroes… And she can be quite the feminist. There’s a lot of, I wouldn’t say misdirect, but she also is a very empowered woman.”
Starr further revealed that this upcoming season is “all about destabilization” and that Stormfront is here to “disrupt the status quo.”
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“She’s really social-media-savvy, where Homelander doesn’t really have anything to do with that,” Starr said. “Someone else is always running his accounts. He’s almost like a Don Draper-era character and she’s very young and new and fresh, and that’s a massive challenge for him.”
Stormfront has plasma bolt capabilities and isn’t afraid to stand up to Homelander, and Cash thinks “the dynamic between the two is terrifying and will change who Homelander is.”
What really makes Stormfront intriguing is that viewers may think she is one thing at the beginning of season 2, but she may be quite different by the end.
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“There are quite a few times where you’ll identify with her as an audience member or agree with what she says,” Cash finishes. “I think [those] are the most dangerous people.”
For more on The Boys, check out why Black Noir will be “terrifying” in season 2, everything we know about the new season that’s set to arrive later this year, and the biggest differences between the show and the comics.
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Source: IGN.com The Boys Season 2 Reveals First Image of New Superhero