Queer Actor Valorie Curry on Why She's Playing a Homophobic Character on The Boys

The secret’s out: The Boys is a satire that lives to skewer the sorts of right-wing nightmares that unluckily are portion of our existent satellite these days. The existent 4th season’s election plot has been a highly fertile 1 for the show’s signature consciousness of humor, with 1 caller quality successful peculiar making a large impression: hate-spewing podcaster Firecracker, played by Valorie Curry.

While The Boys is afloat of exaggerated characters—beyond the halfway cast, different large illustration is the neo-Nazi Stormfront, introduced successful play 2 and played by Aya Cash—Firecracker is subversive connected aggregate levels. For 1 thing, the histrion down Firecracker is 1 of the precise things the conspiracy theory-obsessed quality rails against: a subordinate of the LGBTQIA community.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Curry explained what drew her to the role. “It sounds truthful gross to say, but I truly connected with her close disconnected the bat,” contempt the information that Firecracker is “so vocally anti-trans and homophobic.” Curry figured “it should beryllium idiosyncratic from the assemblage who’s getting to marque a clown retired of her. So determination isn’t immoderate ambiguity.”

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What’s more, “As an actor, our archetypal occupation isn’t to justice our characters,” Curry explained, and said fans of The Boys whitethorn soon larn much astir what drives Firecracker’s skewed constituent of view. It goes backmost to her past, and present “she’s idiosyncratic who believes she’s been marginalized.”

The Boys play 4 is present streaming connected Prime Video.

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