"What The F--k Are We Doing?": The Boys' Antony Starr Reacts To Homelander & Firecracker's "Bizarre" Season 4 Episode 6 Ending

Warning: SPOILERS lie ahead for The Boys season 4, episode 6, "Dirty Business"!

Summary Antony Starr found the Homelander and Firecracker scene in The Boys season 4, episode 6 bizarre and emotional.

Starr shares that filming the scene was challenging due to the technical aspects and unnatural positions.

The scene's intimacy and loyalty reveal could impact Homelander and Firecracker's relationship.

The Boys star Antony Starr reacts to Homelander and Firecracker’s “bizarre” moment from season 4, episode 6, "Dirty Business." The Prime Video series continues to explore Homelander (Starr) and his antagonistic tendencies, as he reaches beyond gaining control of Vought International, namely working with Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) to place Supes in the U.S. government. The Boys season 4 also revealed that he was stashing containers of milk within his apartment, and during “Dirty Business,” Firecracker (Valorie Curry) surprisingly demonstrates her loyalty to Homelander by breastfeeding him.

In a recent interview with Collider, Starr reacted to the scene between Homelander and Firecracker, which featured his character being struck in the face by breast milk. He revealed that it was a highlight from season 4, although at the time he thought, “What the f--k are we doing?" Starr also mentioned that filming the breastfeeding, when Homelander lies on the couch with Firecracker, presented some challenges, and described the overall experience as “bizarre.” Read his comments below:

From memory, I think it’s almond milk maybe mixed with a bit of water. I can’t remember specifically what that was. That’s one of my favorite scenes in the whole season. That’s the weirdest scene I think I’ve done. If you look back at the show, and you look at some of the things we’ve done, there are some pretty weird, very strange things that have been done. But for me, with that, it was the Oedipal thing and what ended up happening on the day, which is that I get hit with breast milk in the face. It doesn’t look like it’s going very well between Firecracker and Homelander. All of a sudden, there’s this reveal of what she’s done and the loyalty that she shows, and then it becomes basically a love scene. It became this incredibly intimate, emotional moment. And I remember, at the end of the day going, "What the f--k are we doing? What are we doing? This is so bizarre." I think it was the mix of, first of all, having breast milk shot in my face. That’s weird enough. But then, there was the apology around it, and then, emotionally, where it went, it was just so twisted. It was so bizarre. It was like a sketch from that show Little Britain, but that’s slapstick comedy, and we were playing it for keeps. We were playing a beautiful moment between these two really twisted people. It’s the layers that just made that so bizarre.

It’s very difficult. The suit looks beautiful, and LJ [Shannon] and her team do a great job of making it look amazing, but the ergonomics have never quite been figured out, given the range of activities that I get up to and what I physically have to do. It’s funny, something as simple as lying down to breastfeed on that couch – I can’t believe I’m saying this, what a bizarre job I have – is very complicated. It’s like playing Twister and Jenga, with the moving parts. You’re like, "Okay, that works. That works. That works. Where’s the camera going?" You have to really strategize every shot, so that we get what the camera needs. Often, the position that I was in felt a little bizarre. It feels like your body is angled in a way that doesn’t feel natural, but the camera reads it. It’s much more technical. It wasn’t until afterwards that I was like, "What have we done today?" During it, there was a sense of, "This is very strange." It wasn’t until after, walking back to my trailer, where I was going, "What did I do? How did I get here? What’s my life? What am I doing here? How did I become this person that goes to work and breastfeeds? This is bizarre." If you asked me when I was 20, what I would be doing when I was in my 40s, I would not have answered that I’d be in Toronto breastfeeding on camera.

What That Ending Might Mean For Homelander & Firecracker's Relationship

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The potential relationship between Homelander and Firecracker might pose greater problems for The Boys, considering they both have a history with Starlight (Erin Moriarty).

Before joining The Seven, Firecracker was on board with Homelander’s stance against Starlighters and fascinated by what he represents. However, Starr’s The Boys character was dismissive, not taking Firecracker seriously, despite the insistence that she was a loyal team member and instructions by Sister Sage (Susan Heyward) on how to use her platform. It became clear that Firecracker wanted to rise in the ranks of Vought’s most celebrated Supes, though she appeared upset when she was left out of Homelander and Neuman’s tight-lipped plans.

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As she revealed to Homelander in "Dirty Business," Firecracker began taking medication to produce breast milk. While Homelander clarified that he wasn’t interested in anything romantic, it’s worth wondering how their relationship will change now, especially after Firecracker questioned Sage’s loyalty. Whether or not she becomes more of a factor in Homelander’s political scheme, given how important his intimacy with Madelyn Stillwell (Elisabeth Shue) was, Firecracker could remain by his side, even through The Boys season 5.

Homelander was close to Madelyn Stillwell and used to drink her breast milk, but he killed her in The Boys season 1 finale after learning that Ryan was actually alive.

The potential relationship between Homelander and Firecracker might pose greater problems for The Boys, considering they both have a history with Starlight (Erin Moriarty). Firecracker did lie about tailing Starlight at Tek Knight’s, in a possible effort to undermine Sage while getting closer to Homelander, and it will be interesting to see how this affects The Seven when The Boys season 4 continues.

Will Firecracker's Proof Of Loyalty Spell Trouble For The Rest Of The Seven?

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Throughout the series, Homelander has grown frustrated with The Seven and their lack of allegiance, notably having killed Black Noir and mistreated Queen Maeve for defying him. After abandoning his morals and inciting protests across the country, Homelander may be the Supes’ most intimidating opponent. As mentioned, Firecracker already has it out for Sage, and some of her remarks should worry A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) about continuing to be an informant for The Boys. If she gains knowledge of Homelander’s internment camps, Firecracker might be able to sway Starr’s character into detaining members of the group.

Following the release of “Dirty Business,” The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke revealed that Firecracker has a way of reading people on a spiritual level, and it’ll be interesting to see if she uses that to her advantage, manipulating other members of The Seven in a manner different from Sage. Because she seems to lack powers, so far only displaying the ability to create sparks from snapping her fingers, she could also use this newfound intimacy with Homelander as protection, getting him to handle larger problems for her, particularly among other Supes at Vought.

Firecracker has only shown her powers briefly, but has failed to successfully fight hand to hand against Starlight and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) in previous episodes of The Boys.

Potentially, having access to Homelander’s power would make Firecracker a tougher target for The Seven, or even Starlight. Her loyalty to Starr’s character, and willingness to breastfeed him, despite the effects of the medication, should worry other characters on The Boys, and if she is granted any control of the company, perhaps she will aim to reshape The Seven into a more conservative group. If anything happens to her before The Boys season 4 wraps, soon after giving Homelander what he wanted, it would be interesting to see how he handles that and retaliates.

New episodes of The Boys season 4 premiere Thursdays on Prime Video.

Source: Collider