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Looks like Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy won’t be any better than Homelander when the character makes his debut in Season 3 of The Boys

Jensen Ackles may portray a hero on Supernatural, but it looks like we’ll see a darker side of the fan-favorite actor in the next season of The Boys following the end of his 15 seasons as Dean Winchester alongside by Jared Padalecki’s Sam, Ackles’ Next Major TV Role Will Have Him Enter The Popular Amazon Original It has already been announced that he will play the role of Soldier Boy, a comic book Supe who has previously been featured on the TV series

Speaking to Variety, series showrunner Eric Kripke spoke about Ackles’ upcoming introduction to The Boys.In the comics, Soldier Boy is seen as a coward who doesn’t seem as corrupt as the rest Members of the Seven When asked if Soldier Boy would be portrayed more as an « innocent » in the version of the TV series like he does in the comics, Kripke made it clear that we shouldn’t expect to step into it. season 3 rooting TV version of the character

Ackles’ casting as Soldier Boy is especially interesting, as the character is a clear parody of Marvel’s Captain America Previously, Ackles had auditioned to play Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger before Chris Evans be finally chosen As fate would have it, playing a parody of the role he missed happened by pure chance, as Kripke also detailed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. How Ackles’ cast as Soldier Boy came about

During the call, the two started talking about the boys, and Kripke mentioned that they were looking to play Soldier Boy After Ackles glanced at the character’s audition pages, he was immediately on board

The Boys just wrapped up its second season on Amazon Prime Video, and while it’s not known when filming will begin, the series is set to debut its third season next year. While it looks like the sinister Stormfront (Aya Cash) is indisposed as Season 3 approaches, Butcher and the Boys could still be in trouble if Soldier Boy looks like Homelander, as Kripke suggests.

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