WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Boys Season 2, Episode 8, "What I Know," available now on Amazon Prime Video.
Claudia Doumit, Congresswoman Victoria Neuman on The Boys, recently spoke about her character's head-exploding massacre in Season 2, Episode 7 of the series.
Throughout The Boys' Season 2, multiple characters spontaneously combust. The show kept the supe behind this rampage a mystery until its Season 2 finale when Congresswoman Neuman is revealed to be behind the attacks. Doumit discussed what it was like to film head-popping scenes in a recent interview with Comicbook.com.
During the final minutes of The Boys' Season 2, Episode 7, Neuman, along with other public officials, hold a Congressional hearing in regards to Vought and their Compound-V formula. Just as former Vought scientist Jonah Vogelbaum is about to give his testimony against Vought, the heads of multiple people in the courtroom explode.
"It was like, 'Oh, this is uncomfortable,'" Doumit said. "This is unsettling. I'm going to need therapy for this. That was really the most shocking part of it. But also, how they were able to put all that together within a lunch break," she continued. "I remember the room was completely normal. It was a hearing. People were there. Yeah? Of course. And then we went to lunch, or we went and had a break, and we came back, and the whole room was just blood everywhere. And I was like, 'Oh, shit's about to go down.'"
"Of course there's blood everywhere," she said. "If there wasn't blood everywhere, am I even on the show?" She joked. "I remember thinking it was the perfect scene. It was the perfect initiation."
Victoria Neuman appeared to be an ally for the Boys early on in Season 2, teaming up with Mallory to help put together the congressional hearing against Vought to start. She seemed to have the same goal as Butcher and the gang -- take down the supes of the world. Now it isn't so clear where her character's intentions lie. In Season 2's finale, Hughie accepted a job with Congresswoman Neuman, ensuring that the Boys will maintain in her orbit for now.
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 and Aya Cash as Stormfront. Seasons 1 and 2 are currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Source: Comicbook.com