The Boys season 3 promises three times the blood of exploding heads

The Boys flavour three promises three times the blood of exploding heads

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There will exist blood on The Boys season 3 — even more than previous seasons. Because we've already seen heads exploding on the Amazon Prime number Video drama, that's going to be a lot of blood.

The Boys bandage fellow member Laz Alonso teased season iii's bloody future in an interview with Collider. Alonso, who plays Mother's Milk, revealed that the show's makeup artists are using 3 times as much fake blood.

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"I'll put it to you this style. I was talking to the head makeup artist and she'southward in charge of ordering the blood — that'south one of her many jobs," Alonso explained.

"She told me that all of Flavour 2... When you talk nearly bulk, I don't think they used over a gallon of blood in Flavor 2, believe it or not. Season 3, nosotros're already at three and a half gallons of claret. And then that should give you lot a little indication of where it's going."

The Boys season 3 is currently in production and Alonso also revealed that filming is "betwixt one-quaternary of the way through and halfway through."

Season iii brings in new cast member Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, a dark version of Captain America who is the "original superhero" in The Boys universe. And information technology seems Soldier Boy brings out the worst in his fellow superheroes.

Co-ordinate to Alonso he's "a character historically who's pretty nighttime, but information technology also makes all of the other ensemble Supes darker as well."

Creator Eric Kripke has previously confirmed the next installment of the evidence volition adapt the source comics' "Herogasm" storyline, which is a satiric take on traditional superhero teams like The Avengers. In the arc, the superheroes pretend to leave Earth to fight an alien threat but actually head to an island resort for a drug-fueled orgy.

With The Boys flavor three still filming, and not close to wrapping, fans should not wait to see new episodes until 2022.

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