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This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 4, episode 6, “Dirty Business”.
Summary
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season 4, episode 6 reveals Joe Kessler’s true nature as a manifestation of his darker side. - Eric Kripke describes Kessler as a brutally honest devil on Billy Butcher’s shoulder, while Jeffrey Dean Morgan discusses his bond with Karl Urban.
- The twist in the episode was planned since the beginning, and the actors had a great time working together, creating a unique dynamic.
Eric Kripke and Jeffrey Dean Morgan break down The Boys season 4, episode 6’s twist, addressing the twisted true nature of Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and Joe Kessler’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) relationship. Kessler was a newcomer to season 4 of the Prime Video series, as Butcher’s former comrade “acted” as a CIA case officer for the vigilante. However, “Dirty Business” saw Kessler lash out at the hallucination of Butcher’s deceased love Becca (Shantel VanSanten), revealing him to be a manifestation of his darker side.
After Kessler revealed his true nature in the latest episode of The Boys, Kripke and Morgan broke down the character’s true nature to Variety. Kripke described Kessler as a brutally honest devil on Butcher’s shoulder, while Morgan discussed working with Urban. Check out the pair’s response below:
Eric Kripke:
“We were always going to reveal it in Episode 6 — we didn’t want to save it for the end of the movie. Because now Kessler has this new role to be literally the devil on his shoulder, and really be twisting the knife and saying really cruel things to Butcher that all happen to be totally true — which is always great when your villain can be a real truth-teller.I think every time that someone turns out to be imaginary, the first draft is always like another character walks into the room and says, ‘Who are you talking to?’ So I’m sure that was our first draft when it was originally up on the board, Hughie walks in and he’s like, ‘Who are you talking to?’ But we said, ‘Well, everyone’s done that, so can we do something different?’ And Becca is this imaginary character. So what if the two imaginary characters just start yelling at each other? And that would be a new way to do that kind of reveal.”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan:
“But really, him and I were so locked into each other, it didn’t f*cking matter who else or whatever was going on in the scene. We were having so much fun. There’s very few times that you walk on a set and you immediately bond with somebody. In romance, it would be your soulmate, and Karl was like my f*cking soulmate. And immediately we knew that we had something really fun and special here and let’s just have fun and play and enjoy it.”
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Source: Variety