AS THEY SAY IN JUST ABOUT EVERY
brooding-superhero movie: A storm
is coming. On The Boys, she has an
apt name: Stormfront (You’re the
Worst star Aya Cash), a new addi-
tion for season 2 of the Amazon
Prime Video satire. And like any
meteorological disaster, she’s hard
to contain. “She really causes me so
many problems,” says Antony Starr,
who plays Homelander, the socio-
pathic leader of the secretly corrupt
superhero team, the Seven.
In the comics, Stormfront is
male, a riff on Thor and Shazam!
with a little Nazism thrown in. The
nuance of how that translates to
the show remains a spoiler, but
Cash does reveal that her charac-
ter comes with her own agenda.
“I think Stormfront is like a
nuclear bomb that goes off in the
Seven. Maybe ‘nuclear bomb’ isn’t
the right phrase—we’re in Cher-
nobyl.” Meaning, if everything
feels at ease, it’s just ’cause we’re in
the eye of the...well, you know.
For Starr, this season of The Boys
is “all about destabilization.” AndStormfront is here to disrupt the sta-
tus quo. Starr says she isn’t into the
“celebrity fanfare” that has come to
define the Seven, but she’s modern,
despite her old-fashioned beliefs.
“She’s really social-media-savvy.”
Stormfront also comes with enough
power to slap back at Homelander
when he goes full egomaniac. “[He’s]
used to everyone being scared of
him. She matches him,” Cash says.
“That’s not to say she doesn’t under-
stand his power and tiptoe around it
sometimes. The dynamic between
the two is terrifying and will change
who Homelander is.”
But what truly makes Storm-
front a raging force of nature is
“you start off this season thinking
she’s one thing and then discover
she’s another,” says Cash. “There
are quite a few times where you’ll
identify with her. I think [those]
are the most dangerous people.”
—NICK ROMANOAYA CASHTHE BOYSFIRST TAKENETWORK AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
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