Aya Cash, who played Stormfront in Season 2 of The Boys, says that she was cast in the show before it had even begun airing.

In an interview with Collider, Cash said, "I auditioned for The Boys and The Boys wasn’t out yet when I auditioned for it, so it wasn’t a big hit show. It was a few months before Season 1 came out. They hadn’t even been picked up for Season 2, but they had to hire someone to play this role because they needed to build the suit on the body that was gonna wear it. So they had not picked up for Season 2, but I got hired."

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Cash also discussed what series creator Eric Kripke told her about the role beforehand. "I went in, I auditioned, I did a 20-minute talk with Eric about the role, because I had been told already going into the audition, 'Look, the sides don’t really say this, but this is gonna be a complicated role,'" the actor said. "And I have no problem playing deeply unlikable people or villains, but obviously this was gonna be something that needed to be handled with intelligence and was not going to be glorifying this character in a way that I disagreed with, but it would be in service to something. So after talking to Eric, I felt in very, very good hands.”

Debuting in Season 2, Stormfront was the newest member of the Seven, the premier superhero team of The Boys backed by the shadowy corporation Vought International. Unbeknownst to them, she was secretly the decades-old widow of founder Frederick Vought and still held on to their shared Nazi ideology.

Cash discussed what it was like to play such a villainous character at a time of intense strife and conflict in the real world. "I had to sort of step away from the conversation because I couldn’t talk about what was happening and what was going to happen," she said. "I definitely had moments where I felt terrible that people might have been hurt by this character and seeing this character. I mean, let’s be honest, 2020 was an incredibly intense year for many, many reasons with the pandemic but also with a racial reckoning in America and I’m playing a white supremacist. So a lot of feelings were coming up and I wanted to be like, 'Don’t worry! She’s gonna get hers. There’s no way that this is okay! No one is saying this is okay!' You know, I hadn’t seen them either! So trust that everything was gonna come together and that people were going to feel satisfied, and maybe there’d even be some catharsis around it and spark some discussions."

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She concluded by talking about her love and appreciation for genre fiction. "What I love about sci-fi and fantasy, and I’ve said this before, is the best of it is commenting on the time that we’re living in, but you are removed by the element of fantasy or sci-fi that you are able to see things sometimes clearer because it’s not so personal," Cash said. "So I was hopeful that that would be where we ended up."

Amazon Studios' The Boys stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as The Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander, Katia Winter as Little Nina and Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy. Seasons 3 has yet to receive a premiere date.

Source: Collider