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Topics: The Boys, Film and TV
Niamh Shackleton
The Boys really is the gift that keeps on giving... well, if you're into the close up shots of a**holes, I suppose.
Amazon’s hit show The Boys is certainly not shy when it comes to nudity.
It seems the showrunner might give Game of Thrones a run for its money in how many d***s, fans have seen on screen over the last couple of seasons.
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The TV show leans heavily into political and societal satire, but isn’t afraid of gross and x-rated humor, and viewers got a good dose of it in one of the most hilarious scenes in the first episode of the newly released fourth season.
In one of the final scenes of the episode, Butcher - played by Karl Urban - essentially gives the big middle finger to character Victoria Neuman - played by Claudia Doumit - except he doesn’t exactly use his finger.
Earlier in the episode, the secret Supe and Vice President hopeful demands to know all the information Hughie (Jack Quaid) has on her.
In turn she’ll consider a rather tentative alliance with Butcher and his Boys as they continue to try and bring down Homelander any other corrupt Supes that stand in their way.
In that final scene, Neuman gets a text from Butcher expecting it to be the files he has on her. She smiles before she opens it, when in actuality it is simply a picture of his a**hole... yup, a pretty big F off answer to her previous request.
The showrunners took to social media to answer a burning question from fans: Whose a**hole was it?
The post shared a snapshot from the scene with the phone having an overaly of text that read: “We can’t show you the actual image from the episode but if you’ve seen it, you know exactly what goes here. Two things you should know.
“1)That was Claudia’s first time seeing it, so her reaction is totally genuine.
“2) It is not Karl’s butthole, but a model hired specifically for this shot. The more you know.”
The reaction from the actress certainly seems genuine as she quickly blurts out ‘Oh for f***s sake’ before covering her face.
If you look closely you can see Doumit hold back a smile and a laugh, really and truly staying in character.
Writer Eric Kripke, who has been a part of the show from 2019, also confirmed that it was a model with a post on his own X page.
“Because hundreds of you asked: the butthole from #TheBoys Season 4, Ep 1 is NOT Butcher's (or Karl's). We hired a model (I don't know his name). I chose the pic, based on about 20 different butthole shots. Yep, Hollywood is a glamorous dream factory,” they wrote.