She’s not supporting it she’s just, like I said, playing the game, but I want people to see that this is not my body. That’s not my own body and so I was like, we need to show that this is not real because if we don’t we’re contributing - even though we’re ultimately making a negative commentary on her outfit, because she is covert, she is playing the game this season. And they didn’t request this of me but I requested it I wear that outfit and I really wanted to have that moment where I take off the outfit and the wig and all that stuff, but also, you see me take out the butt and breast implants that they give me for the outfit and I said, I have these little silicon inserts to kind of enhance my body and make it look more like a Barbie. While this next scene doesn’t put another life on the line, it is an especially memorable moment from the first three episodes of The Boys Season 2 that sends a pretty powerful and very human message - the scene where Annie takes off the Starlight costume piece by piece, revealing what it really takes to make her camera-ready.
If you want to talk about a hypothetical world, her powers are really powerful so it could be something like blasting the wall next to Hughie and having good aim and creating a distraction and making it seem like there’s been destruction and then figuring it out, but no, no she would not have killed Hughie." It’s like when she blasts him and she falls back because she has to.
“My choice was yeah, exactly that, that she’s showing her eyes light up, she’s just kind of trying to figure it out quickly. But, to indulge us further, Moriarty did walk us through a hypothetical situation of how Starlight might have been able to spare Hughie even if Butcher never showed up: Thanks to the very strong foundation the show built for Hughie and Annie’s relationship in Season 1 that it continues to bolster in Season 2, it really didn’t seem like there was any chance Starlight would have gone through with it - whether there was an interruption or not. I think the season, sort of one of the big themes for her this season is that she’s wearing a mask and she’s trying to maintain that rock solid facade as much as she can, so in my mind, in that moment, as her eyes light up, she’s reaching into the depths of her brain to figure out what the hell she’s gonna do while pacifying Homelander to signify to him that she’s carbonating with her powers, but I do not think that she would have killed Hughie at all.” I feel like I know that character in my bones, deeply too. “I have always thought, without a doubt, including when we were filming it, that she would not have killed Hughie. Is there any chance that Starlight really would have killed Hughie in the moment? Here’s was Moriarty had to say: The moment builds to the point where Starlight’s eyes light up, suggesting she’s about to use her power, but then Butcher ( Karl Urban) steps in and interrupts. But, we also touched on some key moments from The Boys Season 2, and we’re about to get into a couple of them here.įirst up, there’s an especially tense moment in Episode 3 where Homelander ( Antony Starr) corners Starlight in a sense and puts her in a position where she must kill Hughie ( Jack Quaid) to appease him.
During a recent edition of Collider Ladies Night, I got the opportunity to have a lengthy chat with Moriarty covering a good deal of her career, including early inspirations and making The Kings of Summer.