As The Boys' Season 3 filming continues, Jensen Ackles is bringing the Soldier Boy rage to the stage -- well, at least to his Instagram's 8.6 million followers awaiting his Supe debut.
Amidst filming the hit Amazon Prime Video series' upcoming season, Ackles took a break to share some behind-the-scenes candid photos of him jamming out to a Tool playlist at 3:00 a.m.
Ackles captioned the post, "Verified Late night filming. 3am. Listening to @toolmusic may not be the best thing to put me to bed. Or is it? Just tryin to cope with shit."
In August 2020, The Supernatural star was cast as Soldier Boy in The Boys. While showrunner Eric Kripke has kept much of Soldier Boy's plotlines under wraps, he has teased that "[Soldier Boy] knew [Stormfront] when she was Liberty." The showrunner added, "He was like John Wayne [at Vought], and so as a result, we're writing the history of Vought and how all the characters weave in together. And yeah, now Liberty is definitely a part of that."
Soldier Boy is a character within The Boys comic series co-created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. In the comics, the character served as a satirizing take on Captain America and unwavering patriotism that causes harm to others. Described as the "first superhero," the character erroneously claimed to have fought in WWII and used his powers and "vet-status" to become an American celebrity. While originally belonging to a group called Payback, he later joins the Seven and has a fraught and complicated relationship with Homelander.
Based on The New York Times best-selling comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys is a fun and irreverent take on what happens when superheroes – who are as popular as celebrities – abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good.
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, Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, Sean Patrick Flannery as Gunpowder, Nick Wechsler as Blue Hawk, Miles Gaston Villanueva as Supersonic and Laurie Holden as Crimson Countess. Season 3 has yet to receive a premiere date.
Source: Instagram