TheBoys showrunner Eric Kripke reveals how Season 3's intro to Termite was created — and which effect was an 11-foot-tall practical build.
Over the course of its tenure on television, you'd think The Boys as a series would be content to only dole out one shocking moment per season — but Season 3's premiere, "Payback," served as the perfect introduction to remind all of us watching at home that this show will never pull any possible punches in terms of what it can serve up on-screen. One of the new supes this season is known as Termite , who can shrink himself down to verifiable ant-size ...
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY As part of a long-ranging, spoiler-filled interview with Collider, The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke had some insights to share about how that scene was even initially brainstormed, as well as which effect was actually a practical build for the moment in question.
"I have to say Amazon has never been particularly controlling about what we want to do, as long as we can mount a serious argument for why we want it or need it — which we do, as the writers. We really try hard to self-police ourselves.
"They have a standards department, and they have certain restrictions, and one of their restrictions is you cannot show an erect penis. So we needed to, in the design of that penis — which we built practically, that is a real 11-foot-high, 20-foot-long penis built at great expense. There was like this hilarious layering where we're like, 'Okay, we have to put enough wrinkles on it. Someone would know that it was at least flaccid enough to pass by standards.
The Boys Season 3 premiered with its first three episodes on Friday, June 3, with subsequent episodes released weekly every Friday until the finale on July 8.
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