The key’s out: The Boys is a satire that lives to skewer the kinds of right-wing nightmares that sadly are a part of our actual world nowadays. The present fourth season’s election plot has been a extremely fertile one for the present’s signature humorousness, with one new character specifically making a giant impression: hate-spewing podcaster Firecracker, performed by Valorie Curry.

Whereas The Boys is filled with exaggerated characters—past the core solid, one other large instance is the neo-Nazi Stormfront, launched in season two and performed by Aya Money—Firecracker is subversive on a number of ranges. For one factor, the actor behind Firecracker is among the very issues the conspiracy theory-obsessed character rails towards: a member of the LGBTQIA group.

Talking to the Hollywood Reporter, Curry defined what drew her to the function. “It sounds so gross to say, however I actually linked together with her proper off the bat,” even though Firecracker is “so vocally anti-trans and homophobic.” Curry figured “it needs to be any individual from the group who’s attending to make a clown out of her. So there isn’t any ambiguity.”

What’s extra, “As an actor, our first job isn’t to guage our characters,” Curry defined, and mentioned followers of The Boys might quickly be taught extra about what drives Firecracker’s skewed viewpoint. It goes again to her previous, and now “she’s somebody who believes she’s been marginalized.”

The Boys season 4 is now streaming on Prime Video.

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