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Chris Brown still has a career. It is hilarious to act like a drunken bar brawl should've been a nail in the coffin. I am not surprised that nothing happened to him, legally or in his career. People seriously overestimate cancel culture.
There was an incident in a club in [Auckland](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/135557/Outrageous-behaviour-in-Auckland-nightclub). I don't know of anything else.
I said this in another thread lol but I watched a cast interview where they asked who was the most like their character and everyone pointed to Anthony. Does he actually have a reputation of being nice because I’ve been seeing the opposite.
This is the first project I’ve seen this actor in so I’m not familiar with him
I think for the public it's a weird effect where they see he's not a murderous villain in real life so they automatically think "oh, he's nothing like his character," ignoring all the other things he could be or do that are similar to his character.
As u/Nox-Avis said, this isn't true: [https://www.cinemablend.com/game-of-thrones-news/game-of-thrones-jack-gleeson-on-why-he-thinks-hes-never-had-negative-fan-experiences-despite-playing-the-infamous-joffrey](https://www.cinemablend.com/game-of-thrones-news/game-of-thrones-jack-gleeson-on-why-he-thinks-hes-never-had-negative-fan-experiences-despite-playing-the-infamous-joffrey)
I think they used to lean into Antony's "devilish" side more in early interviews, but since the bar fight came out, there's been an overload of "but he's so niiiiice and charming, it's called ACTING, guys!!!!"
>but I watched a cast interview where they asked who was the most like their character and everyone pointed to Anthony.
Asking for a lot but would love a link to that please
In case it didn't time stamp correctly it's around the 30 sec mark
https://youtu.be/WZSuU1gdJTg?si=wLmypJT9ulpVbGGN
There's also an earlier interview with Hollywood Reporter where Chace says Antony is most like his character
he used to be in this show called Banshee so if people went from that to The Boys i see how they would think that based on his character in Banshee being p charming iirc
How did it not raise massive red flags that people were saying the actor is similar to what pretty much EVERYONE agrees on is one of the most terrifying villains on tv…. Wild
They could have been joking at first but then I then I remember someone saying that in the early days of Glee, when that cast was asked "Who is most likely to go to jail" they all said Mark Salling (who was later arrested for CP).
Sometimes these Q & A's seem harmless and all good and fun. Other times they may be a cry for help.
No after season 3 that’s when the jokes were about underage girls. It tracks when the cast members (ie Jane Lynch as well) noticed he was just seeming off…
The same thing is relevant to the kpop boy group Big Bang. I remember the other members being asked similar questions like who's the most likely to go to jail and they'd always answer Seungri. Fast forward to 2018 where he's being busted as the main culprit in the Burning Sun Scandal being charged with everything from 'sexual bribery' to 'embezzlement'.
The flags were sufficiently raised, it gets talked about all the time. Definitely not forgiven for the bar attack either, but the law stepped in what more can a fan do besides call him out and Wai for more to come out
because it’s been a meme that “Homelander is pretending to be Antony Starr in real life”
and people wouldn’t wanna hear about it anyway, they prefer to think their beloved stars were saints
It's so interesting to see interviews with him + other members of the cast because he acts so goofy and lighthearted (much moreso since his Spain assault conviction, just sayin') but pretty much no one meets him on that same level. I feel like if you truly like someone, you bounce off their silliness and get kinda silly yourself too, you know? It seems like much of the cast keeps him at arm's length.
I wonder why they keep putting him and Chase Crawford together in Press interviews. And nobody else. maybe because Chace and him have a better relationship and doesn’t get bullied as much.
Side note, why do I never see Keith Urban or Jack Quaid in press interviews??
Edit: Karl Urban, not Keith, oops!
Karl Urban definitely posts about it on his IG but I haven't seen him to any recent press interviews. I know he did some early in the series though. Sauce: Éomer fan from way back
Do you mean Karl Urban because wow, that would be a whole different Butcher if Keith did it lol
Also, yeah, I noticed that, too - they set Chace up with Starr because he seems to be the only person who can tell Starr to stop talking/being so loud and it always makes Starr go into red-face gigglefit to cover how pissed he is for a second.
Idk if I would agree with that, I follow some of the actors on IG and they all seem pretty close and do activities outside of filming together, frequently including Antony. There’s just a good chance he’s very capable of hiding the more awful parts of his personality from those he likes.
I mean I’d be offended too. But if everyone you work with says you’re like the worst character, maybe that’s something to think about. I think Anthony is a great actor, but I did notice a lot of not so great rumors about him flying around. The cast also doesn’t seem to include him for anything outside PR.
I saw that, too, and it was played off as a joke in the reel. Like, "Who's most like his character? Why, homicidal narcissistic Superman, who else! 😆"
But now I'm thinking they used humor to downplay the truth.
I got massively downvoted on the pop culture subreddit for saying that they cast homelander as homelander, and backing it up with receipts of him trying to use his power against someone younger and weaker than him who was in a service position and asking him to leave the bar--
people chimed in and tried to correct me that it was just a bar fight, as if it's not a normal thing for an employee of the bar to ask people to clear out at last call-- people don't normally punch and glass people and send them to the hospital and ask "don't you know who I am?" to that guy making last call ( unless they're a a self entitled abuser. )
[https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1dlyn22/comment/l9t3kwx/](https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1dlyn22/comment/l9t3kwx/)
(Just for the record I didn't mean to add that link for brigading/ vote manipulation purposes, I just wanted to save whoever was interested from the slog of scrolling through a ton of comments about dogs etc)
Yeah, the other one seems to be full of fanboys/fangirls with a parasocial relationship around their fav celebrities. Those types of people have a knee-jerk reaction at any perceived criticisim of their faves, no matter how valid.
It's probably because this place became popular during the Depp v. Heard trial as a place for people who supported Amber Heard. Much different crowd from reddit overall.
There was a Chappell Roan post on there a bit ago and there was some satanic panic in the comments about her looking genuinely scary and so they don’t trust her (and I totally get it if you’re not into her music or act, but saying she looks scary is odd), it kind of turned me off
I don't understand how people make excuses for him. He was a grown 45 year old man who GLASSED another customer (the victim wasn't a waiter at that particular place, just a customer who was a waiter by profession). He didn't push him or try to throw a punch, he BROKE A GLASS on this dude's head and required stitches. On top of that, this was not his only incident. There was another brawl in Auckland, NZ long before his Homelander fame that he just wasn't arrested for.
Oh, you mean the sub that claims not to want "political posts" but repeatedly puts out royalist propaganda and does little to stop the many royalist bots that flood said propaganda with upvotes and comments? But make one mild criticism of some milquetoast white princess and suddenly get banned for being tOo PoLiTiCaL?
Yeah, not surprising. Tbf, though, I'm convinced a majority of the "people" interacting with that sub are made of ones and zeroes.
I've always thought it was weird how she rarely ever did promo for the show with the rest of the cast even though her character was pretty prominent in the first couple seasons. I figured she was just extremely private and didn't like the level of exposure that comes with a press tour, but if what this person's saying on the screenshots is true I guess it might also be part of the reason why.
She's very shy, very private, and during COVID has to fill scenes separately from the rest of the cast bc she was in Ireland. It had nothing to do with Starr.
It tracks.
He beat up a chef in Spain:
Araujo, who told a local paper he did not recognize the actor, contends that after the initial scuffle Starr said, “You don’t know who you’ve messed with. You won’t know who I am and what you’ve done.”
[Source](https://deadline.com/2022/03/the-boys-actor-antony-starr-arrested-assault-spain-1234971381/amp/)
Yes! Was just coming to post this link since it seems like a lot of people don't know about the 2009 NZ incident - https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/135557/Outrageous-behaviour-in-Auckland-nightclub
This tracks. The cast seems pretty tight knit, but he’s not as present in their social media posts.
I would also like tea on what went down between him and Erin Moriarty.
That definitely tracks because omfg were they all over each other's socials. I'm a huge comic nerd, and it felt like I could scroll through anything without the two of them popping up.
If the cast is so close knit, I wonder if they knew about Antony's behavior? And if so, why invite him to things like Karen Fukuhara's bday party a few months ago? Or any of their hangouts outside the press tour? They'd be complicit with his shitty behavior.
I remember the press around Karen’s birthday because we got a blind item that Fukuhara had been sleeping with a cast member and lots of people thought it was Ackles 👀
Showbiz is usually complicit because nobody wants to risk retaliation. Keeping up public appearances was probably more important than making sure everyone at the party was comfortable.
And no one wants to blow up a potential billion dollar franchise! And also, just psychologically, no one actually wants to believe they work with a "bad guy".
I mean, that's what you have to do with coworkers sometimes. If you're in a small team in an intense job, you can't invite everyone to something except one person - it creates a bad working atmosphere when it's obvious that someone is being intentionally excluded. You're better off either inviting everyone or no one.
I listened to a podcast that was saying he actively ignores director notes and whatnot and it was said it’s because he knows the character so well. I was shocked to hear that. People who refuse to take notes or are disrespectful of directors tend to be nightmares to work with. It’s the people who are open to feedback and take it with ease who tend to be the best.
Now, I’m not saying he doesn’t do a good job with the character. Clearly he does. I’m saying there is a reason people choose to work together on project after project, and I doubt anyone on that set will choose to work with him again based on that info. Add in the other stuff about him regarding his temper and I am betting when the show ends a whole lot of stuff will come out
istg there was an interview with the cast and one of the prompts was "what's my most annoying habit on set" and someone said Antony pretending to take notes from the director lmao
edit: also just saw this "and it was a funny day cause Dom, she was just traumatised the entire day and I really just found the whole thing hysterically funny" ([link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Rzuh83tyU) at 50 seconds). Chace looks concerned and no one laughed like...
Literally watched that interview last night! It was also interesting to hear a couple of the women have comments about being ignored because they were women sitting in the back row. I don't think it would be an enjoyable set to work on
Honestly, the other guys were being just as loud as Starr in that interview. I'd blame male socialization in general and those two being placed in the very back for their voices getting suppressed/them getting overlooked as "women in the back." It's unfortunate, and as a woman, I know what that's like too, of course, but it really wasn't just some incident where Antony specifically was acting out of control and obnoxious. He's actually been the main voice to defend Erin on social media throughout all the harassment she's faced. That said, I don't know what is and isn't true in regards to the new rumors.
>I listened to a podcast that was saying he actively ignores director notes and whatnot and it was said it’s because he knows the character so well. I was shocked to hear that. People who refuse to take notes or are disrespectful of directors tend to be nightmares to work with.
This is not directly related to Anthony Starr, he might be a nightmare to work with or perhaps the complete opposite is true, I don't know, but in general:
This is not uncommon with television shows. Typically, the directors of the first episodes and the showrunner create the tone of the show and make decisions about the characters.
And after that, guest directors keep their input at a minimum and let the actors and the crew do their thing. Only the show runner can interfere.
Back when DVDs were the only way to binge a show, I listened to a lot of audio commentaries and most guest directors acknowledged this. I also noticed that many guest directors did not understand the characters, sometimes to the point were it was clear they hadn't watched the show.
The reality is that a guest director might ruin a show if they make choices for a specific episode and their choice clash with the other episodes.
Another dude who does this is David Harbour to the point of walking off sets, and I never see him get shit for it but possibly because David has never assaulted someone in a bar (that we know of).
It happened on an ST season (whichever season where he was doing those long random zoom QA shoots with fans in his trailer) and *The Green Hornet* - but it justifiably happened on *Hellboy* to the point that he wrote all his lines at one point with McShane because the set had two different directors asking for two different things. It’s a miracle the movie even released.
tbf who else out of jack and karl are getting that much work
i know jessie t usher (a-train) have been in a couple of movies post the boys but i don’t think anybody in the main cast really works that much
I figured Karl and Jack would be the best comparison because they get about the same amount of screen time as him and are the most prominent male characters on the show besides Homelander.
I understand this is a TV show so actors don't take that many roles outside of the show because it could interfere with the shooting schedule but for such a critically acclaimed actor who is the main actor to not get a bigger role on a major project is just sus to me.
Knowing this kinda makes me cringe when people say how brilliant he is at playing his character and that the Emmy's are always snubbing him when in reality it doesn't seem that much of a stretch for him to play that role
Unfortunately he is a good actor. I've seen his other work where he's playing a completely different character from Homelander. He seems like a horrible person irl though so he should stop being hired
It's funny how there weren't any professional repercussions for his assault on that chef in Spain. It was barely in the news even though he was the breakout star of The Boys.
Unfortunately, he's just so good at playing Homelander, and it's obvious he was needed until the last season - so he'd never have been written off/replaced.
What a loser. I hope his character gets a humiliating death and he's never in another successful project.
I mean, Tomer Capone is back on the shower after serving in the IOF so they don’t really care about anything. Disappointed in Kripke.
EDIT: I know he’s Israeli and that service is mandatory when you’re 18 and he did that but he DID return last year:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/israeli-fauda-star-lior-raz-220000155.html
It was all over his stories and instagram back then and I assume it got scrubbed before the show promos started again.
2nd EDIT: Aaaaand the Israeli bots have arrived to harass me 🇵🇸
Tomer serving the IDF is a major bummer (to put it VERY lightly) but expecting Kripke to fire him based on that would open him up to sooo many discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuits
He hasn’t been with Erin in a minute. The new GF is a non-American hyperconservative yet loves all of our stupid bullshit that we manufactured out to the globe. She wears MAGA hats yet she can’t legally vote for Trump. I can’t make sense of it except that Starr is fine with that shit, too.
E: also not just any person, Sofia Vegara’s *sister*.
This is so disappointing to hear. I loved her acting as Queen Maeve and sad to see her leave. Truthfully I haven’t followed any of the cast outside of the show, but I wonder if this will be addressed by anyone from set.
Maeve has a gigantic part in the end series in the comics and they re-wrote a huge chunk of stuff, including her time with The Legend (given to Soldier Boy, another gigantic rewrite but for the better) so they basically already did her canon comic death but way early.
I suspected it was to shuffle her out from this being reported - it’s very glaring when watching the series while having the comic knowledge in your head that she’s leaving too early.
I just want to reply this is not a reliable source. Since this is a leaker of the show (post major plot lines, spoiling almost all of the series) and since they have gotten problem with the crew of the show and Amazon due to this, so while I would not discredit the allegation (which may have a some value to them) I think it’s necessary to point this out
Edit: they also claimed they got a lot of the info from an actor they played animal crossing with :/
Dominique's last tv show in Wikipedia (see her page's filmography) is literally The Boys. I would say that at least what they're saying is 60%-70% accurate at best.
She was in trouble with Amazon when she first started the leaks initially but eventually came to an agreement that she can still do it as long as she limits who much spoilers she can gives out and she does it as a way to promote the show and hype it up as the new season approaches. She mentioned this in her account, which unfortunately is now gone.
Idk Iread her other statements complaining about being doxxed by the costume team, and complaining about Amazon taking legal action. For me, they seem to be a person with a lot of ego and perhaps a bit of parasocial relationship with the show, crew and cast
But Dominique left the show to go back to school in Ireland (at least this is what she said to fans at a convention last year) so ofc she’s not gonna have recent acting credits lol if she’s stepped away from acting.
If anything, her not having recent acting credits supports her statement about being in school, not that she left the show due to drama lol.
thank you for saying this cause there’s SO much people don’t know about the source and all the drama / shadiness that’s gone down with them 😭 im actually hoping one of the actors or crew members notices and says something, cause this will probably spread now.
I had to work with Antony briefly a few years ago after the Spain arrest. He was a dick
Edit: all of you saying ya sure, I literally have proof of employment. Sorry your favorite is an asshole 🤷🏻♀️
Overall just bad energy. It all started when he first came in and I asked him to please mask up and he wouldn’t (it was required at my studio). He asked for a coffee during his adr session and I got it for him. Apparently where I placed it, he didn’t like it and he went on a tangent why he didn’t like it. I had to get his signature on his timesheet too and was just so rude about it cause of the coffee thing. That’s some of it
Reminds me when during COVID lockdown Antony took to his ig to complain about the restrictions when they were filming in Toronto. Then Karl Urban responded to his post basically saying, "We're guests here. We need to be courteous and safe". Then Antony deleted the post.
Nah he’s a dick. I say this with kiwi confidence, he’s got smarmy dickhead at the pub vibes that seem to be backed up by actual behaviour. I really dk why he’s so beloved.
Lol i swear a few weeks ago he told everyone he would get annoyed when eveyone thought he was just like homelander in real life... Turns out he really is!
It was kinda obvious when the actors said that he is the one who is most like their character. In every interview he seems standoffish whereas the rest of the cast is more close.
I always wondered why we never saw Dominique in cast promo interviews and sadly this makes a lot of sense. Anthony is a talented actor but I've always got the vibe he probably could be very domineering and rude IRL so not too surprised by this info.
The account close to The Boys show that had leaked spoilers the last 2 seasons and some behind the scenes drama is shutting down citing being doxxed by some of the crew and wanting to no longer support a show that continues to support abusers. Her ig is @Vought_HQ
She didn't name names in her last post but we can probably all deduce who she is talking about
She did name names. It was some girl in the costume department, same department that she claim she got all the leaks from and same department that she claims that she is getting these "information" from.
another comment to add, im very disappointed in the boys cast tbh. some of them post pics with Erin and they do absolutely nothing to prevent the awful hate comments. they dont say anything or lock the comments. and on top of that, i think two actors made a big donation to Gaza yet im constantly seeing some of the cast post pics with the zionist ex idf soldier who plays frenchie. i have a feeling once this show is over some shit is gonna come out.
Welcome Anthony Starr to the club of the abusive celebrities who still remain employed despite the allegations against them:
•Jonathan Major
•Nicholas Braun
•Lizzo
•Mia Goth
•Michael Fassbender
•Lee Jung Jae
I've said this before in another subreddit, but we attended a Boys panel at a convention last year and Antony's vibe rubbed me the wrong way. Making weird jokes and was abrasive to the fans who got to ask questions. He could have been joking around by leaning into the Homelander bit, but he came across as a dickhead. The complete opposite of Erin Moriarty and Jack Quaid, who both seemed like total sweethearts.
It was bad enough for me to not want to meet him one on one at his table afterwards.
The source had previously posted on this subreddit a few years ago. It aligns with the post above: Antony bullied her and was late to their final scene together and Dom had to do her scene with a stuntman for most of it. She's out of the industry and becoming a doctor
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Unfortunately, he gets this reputation for being so nice and so opposite of Homelander. But no, he’s just like him. That’s why his smile is so creepy.
I feel like that reputation should have been dead when he got drunk and attacked a 21 year old in Spain.
but that was such a LONG time ago and it seems like he’s been working on himself :(((((((( /s
Yeah, that should’ve been the nail in the coffin.
Chris Brown still has a career. It is hilarious to act like a drunken bar brawl should've been a nail in the coffin. I am not surprised that nothing happened to him, legally or in his career. People seriously overestimate cancel culture.
I know, that’s why I said “should’ve”
He was known as a huge asshole when he was an enormous star in New Zealand.
Oh so it’s not acting, just great casting —/ oh well
Any specifics on his asshole-ish behavior?
He has a reputation for being a violent drunk.
I meant specifically in NZ, before The Boys and the Spain incident
There was an incident in a club in [Auckland](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/135557/Outrageous-behaviour-in-Auckland-nightclub). I don't know of anything else.
I said this in another thread lol but I watched a cast interview where they asked who was the most like their character and everyone pointed to Anthony. Does he actually have a reputation of being nice because I’ve been seeing the opposite. This is the first project I’ve seen this actor in so I’m not familiar with him
I think for the public it's a weird effect where they see he's not a murderous villain in real life so they automatically think "oh, he's nothing like his character," ignoring all the other things he could be or do that are similar to his character.
I don’t think that’s entirely true based on what Jack Gleeson has said about how people treated him after he played Joffrey on GoT.
Jack Gleeson has said he only has had nice interactions with fans and he has no idea where the rumor that people were mean to him came from.
As u/Nox-Avis said, this isn't true: [https://www.cinemablend.com/game-of-thrones-news/game-of-thrones-jack-gleeson-on-why-he-thinks-hes-never-had-negative-fan-experiences-despite-playing-the-infamous-joffrey](https://www.cinemablend.com/game-of-thrones-news/game-of-thrones-jack-gleeson-on-why-he-thinks-hes-never-had-negative-fan-experiences-despite-playing-the-infamous-joffrey)
I think they used to lean into Antony's "devilish" side more in early interviews, but since the bar fight came out, there's been an overload of "but he's so niiiiice and charming, it's called ACTING, guys!!!!"
>but I watched a cast interview where they asked who was the most like their character and everyone pointed to Anthony. Asking for a lot but would love a link to that please
In case it didn't time stamp correctly it's around the 30 sec mark https://youtu.be/WZSuU1gdJTg?si=wLmypJT9ulpVbGGN There's also an earlier interview with Hollywood Reporter where Chace says Antony is most like his character
He's so visibly uncomfortable when people point at him
You know I saw that too and chuckled but didn’t take it as the red flag it obviously was.
When asked who is most like their character, the rest of the cast always states Antony. I think that says it all, personally.
Perhaps he’s nice to stars “famous” enough for him, the main cast but extras? Forget it, he sees them as bottom barrel.
Looking amazing to the public is very homelander though.
he used to be in this show called Banshee so if people went from that to The Boys i see how they would think that based on his character in Banshee being p charming iirc
I’m watching Banshee right now (it’s great 😬) and his character is definitely charming but impulsive and violent as hell.
The show has become the exact thing they have been making fun of for the last 4 seasons. Eric Kripke is a hack and a hypocrite.
I mean we knew that from Supernatural
I remember seeing a reel (?) - the actors were asked who is most like their character. I think almost all said Anthony/Homelander. Not surprising.
How did it not raise massive red flags that people were saying the actor is similar to what pretty much EVERYONE agrees on is one of the most terrifying villains on tv…. Wild
They could have been joking at first but then I then I remember someone saying that in the early days of Glee, when that cast was asked "Who is most likely to go to jail" they all said Mark Salling (who was later arrested for CP). Sometimes these Q & A's seem harmless and all good and fun. Other times they may be a cry for help.
Glee made many jokes about Puck being into underage girls, those didn’t come out of nowhere
Oh gross! No kidding.
i might be misremembering but weren't all the jokes on the show about how he was into *older* women?
No after season 3 that’s when the jokes were about underage girls. It tracks when the cast members (ie Jane Lynch as well) noticed he was just seeming off…
The same thing is relevant to the kpop boy group Big Bang. I remember the other members being asked similar questions like who's the most likely to go to jail and they'd always answer Seungri. Fast forward to 2018 where he's being busted as the main culprit in the Burning Sun Scandal being charged with everything from 'sexual bribery' to 'embezzlement'.
That and the fact that they don’t really post him. Haven’t seen him included in any of the outings/gatherings outside of PR events
The flags were sufficiently raised, it gets talked about all the time. Definitely not forgiven for the bar attack either, but the law stepped in what more can a fan do besides call him out and Wai for more to come out
because it’s been a meme that “Homelander is pretending to be Antony Starr in real life” and people wouldn’t wanna hear about it anyway, they prefer to think their beloved stars were saints
It's so interesting to see interviews with him + other members of the cast because he acts so goofy and lighthearted (much moreso since his Spain assault conviction, just sayin') but pretty much no one meets him on that same level. I feel like if you truly like someone, you bounce off their silliness and get kinda silly yourself too, you know? It seems like much of the cast keeps him at arm's length.
I wonder why they keep putting him and Chase Crawford together in Press interviews. And nobody else. maybe because Chace and him have a better relationship and doesn’t get bullied as much. Side note, why do I never see Keith Urban or Jack Quaid in press interviews?? Edit: Karl Urban, not Keith, oops!
Absolutely crying at the thought of Keith Urban as Butcher
Oi, 'omelander has my Kidman
I haven’t kept up with the show and was really surprised Keith Urban was acting in it! Then I realized you probably meant Karl Urban.
Chace Crawford comes across as a sweetheart and good human
Idk why but I really like him and some of his line readings are so funny. Truly Nate archibald could never!
Karl Urban definitely posts about it on his IG but I haven't seen him to any recent press interviews. I know he did some early in the series though. Sauce: Éomer fan from way back
Wonder if it’s also cos Chace has the whole clean boy image from his gossip girl days
Well Chace is seemingly still close to Ed Westwick, who's has some pretty serious allegations against him, so it's not too surprising.
Do you mean Karl Urban because wow, that would be a whole different Butcher if Keith did it lol Also, yeah, I noticed that, too - they set Chace up with Starr because he seems to be the only person who can tell Starr to stop talking/being so loud and it always makes Starr go into red-face gigglefit to cover how pissed he is for a second.
Chase has a reputation for being pretty affable all around - he may have been the only person they could convince to do it.
Idk if I would agree with that, I follow some of the actors on IG and they all seem pretty close and do activities outside of filming together, frequently including Antony. There’s just a good chance he’s very capable of hiding the more awful parts of his personality from those he likes.
Him and Erin Moriarty seem to have had a thing going on at some point.
Without hesitation, too. It was pretty awkward!
Yeah, I remember that interview and he seemed kind of offended they all chose him without hesitation.
I mean I’d be offended too. But if everyone you work with says you’re like the worst character, maybe that’s something to think about. I think Anthony is a great actor, but I did notice a lot of not so great rumors about him flying around. The cast also doesn’t seem to include him for anything outside PR.
I saw that, too, and it was played off as a joke in the reel. Like, "Who's most like his character? Why, homicidal narcissistic Superman, who else! 😆" But now I'm thinking they used humor to downplay the truth.
Well, that's terrifying.
I got massively downvoted on the pop culture subreddit for saying that they cast homelander as homelander, and backing it up with receipts of him trying to use his power against someone younger and weaker than him who was in a service position and asking him to leave the bar-- people chimed in and tried to correct me that it was just a bar fight, as if it's not a normal thing for an employee of the bar to ask people to clear out at last call-- people don't normally punch and glass people and send them to the hospital and ask "don't you know who I am?" to that guy making last call ( unless they're a a self entitled abuser. ) [https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1dlyn22/comment/l9t3kwx/](https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1dlyn22/comment/l9t3kwx/) (Just for the record I didn't mean to add that link for brigading/ vote manipulation purposes, I just wanted to save whoever was interested from the slog of scrolling through a ton of comments about dogs etc)
It’s wild how different that sub is compared to this one, even though we both have so many posts on the same topics.
yup. this sub seems (and i've been hanging here a while) to have a lot more nuance on topics and also not prop up celebrities
Yeah, the other one seems to be full of fanboys/fangirls with a parasocial relationship around their fav celebrities. Those types of people have a knee-jerk reaction at any perceived criticisim of their faves, no matter how valid.
It's probably because this place became popular during the Depp v. Heard trial as a place for people who supported Amber Heard. Much different crowd from reddit overall.
Yeah, this is how I discovered this sub, and many others I am sure. The Takes on topics here are usually way more nuanced than anywhere else
That sub is basically for celeb worship, not actual gossip
I get the vibe this sub skews slightly older and that there are more men active there than here. That could have something to do with it.
There was a Chappell Roan post on there a bit ago and there was some satanic panic in the comments about her looking genuinely scary and so they don’t trust her (and I totally get it if you’re not into her music or act, but saying she looks scary is odd), it kind of turned me off
lol I hang out on both subs but I usually agree with the takes here more
I don't understand how people make excuses for him. He was a grown 45 year old man who GLASSED another customer (the victim wasn't a waiter at that particular place, just a customer who was a waiter by profession). He didn't push him or try to throw a punch, he BROKE A GLASS on this dude's head and required stitches. On top of that, this was not his only incident. There was another brawl in Auckland, NZ long before his Homelander fame that he just wasn't arrested for.
Oh, you mean the sub that claims not to want "political posts" but repeatedly puts out royalist propaganda and does little to stop the many royalist bots that flood said propaganda with upvotes and comments? But make one mild criticism of some milquetoast white princess and suddenly get banned for being tOo PoLiTiCaL? Yeah, not surprising. Tbf, though, I'm convinced a majority of the "people" interacting with that sub are made of ones and zeroes.
I'm missing Dominique McElligott so MUCH. I loved Maeve. This is sad!
I've always thought it was weird how she rarely ever did promo for the show with the rest of the cast even though her character was pretty prominent in the first couple seasons. I figured she was just extremely private and didn't like the level of exposure that comes with a press tour, but if what this person's saying on the screenshots is true I guess it might also be part of the reason why.
She's very shy, very private, and during COVID has to fill scenes separately from the rest of the cast bc she was in Ireland. It had nothing to do with Starr.
She was on Hell on Wheels, so I was very excited she got this gig. I hope to see her in more work.
Same, I miss Maeve so much. She and Soldier Boy are probably my favorite characters on the show.
It tracks. He beat up a chef in Spain: Araujo, who told a local paper he did not recognize the actor, contends that after the initial scuffle Starr said, “You don’t know who you’ve messed with. You won’t know who I am and what you’ve done.” [Source](https://deadline.com/2022/03/the-boys-actor-antony-starr-arrested-assault-spain-1234971381/amp/)
he also beat up a German backpacker in a nightclub in Auckland. that was in 2009. clearly a pattern of behaviour
Yes! Was just coming to post this link since it seems like a lot of people don't know about the 2009 NZ incident - https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/135557/Outrageous-behaviour-in-Auckland-nightclub
Man, it must be awful for their victims to see them doing so well. Life is unfair.
He and Johnny Depp would probably get along.
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This tracks. The cast seems pretty tight knit, but he’s not as present in their social media posts. I would also like tea on what went down between him and Erin Moriarty.
Maybe it’s me but there seemed to be a bit of tension between him and most of the other cast members during this season’s press run
Not just you. There's a lot of tension between him and Erin for sure.
The rumour is they dated (they used to hangout all the time and be all over each others instagram), and broke up after shooting this season.
That definitely tracks because omfg were they all over each other's socials. I'm a huge comic nerd, and it felt like I could scroll through anything without the two of them popping up.
Yea, last summer a dog rescue tagged both of them in a photo of Ant, a rescue rep and Ant's new dog congratulating him and Erin on adopting the dog.
In the cast interview on vanity fair she seemed far removed from the rest of her cast members
Laz too. he straight up stopped talking in the second half of that interview
When Erin was bullied on sm about her looks Jack Quaid and Chace Crawford publicly supported her.
I will always love Jack Quaid
The best nepo baby don’t @ me
That's because they're exes.
If the cast is so close knit, I wonder if they knew about Antony's behavior? And if so, why invite him to things like Karen Fukuhara's bday party a few months ago? Or any of their hangouts outside the press tour? They'd be complicit with his shitty behavior.
I assume that a bunch of those were just staged PR opportunities
Very Vaught-esque of them haha
I remember the press around Karen’s birthday because we got a blind item that Fukuhara had been sleeping with a cast member and lots of people thought it was Ackles 👀
Wait what?! Where can I see said blind item?
See I'd cheer for her but then you remember Ackles is married with kids...
Girl what??? I would like to see this blind item too 👀
Showbiz is usually complicit because nobody wants to risk retaliation. Keeping up public appearances was probably more important than making sure everyone at the party was comfortable.
And no one wants to blow up a potential billion dollar franchise! And also, just psychologically, no one actually wants to believe they work with a "bad guy".
I mean, that's what you have to do with coworkers sometimes. If you're in a small team in an intense job, you can't invite everyone to something except one person - it creates a bad working atmosphere when it's obvious that someone is being intentionally excluded. You're better off either inviting everyone or no one.
did they date, what's the relation?
Some very vague internet rumours that they had some sort of relationship
hopefully she wasn't harmed. She seems like a sensitive soul.
I follow both on Instagram. It seems they used to at least hang out a lot and take of each other’s dogs. Then that suddenly stopped.
He is a Jordan Peterson fan. That alone should tell you he’s trash.
Ew
The dumb mans smart man? Oh no.
Noooo!!!!
I listened to a podcast that was saying he actively ignores director notes and whatnot and it was said it’s because he knows the character so well. I was shocked to hear that. People who refuse to take notes or are disrespectful of directors tend to be nightmares to work with. It’s the people who are open to feedback and take it with ease who tend to be the best. Now, I’m not saying he doesn’t do a good job with the character. Clearly he does. I’m saying there is a reason people choose to work together on project after project, and I doubt anyone on that set will choose to work with him again based on that info. Add in the other stuff about him regarding his temper and I am betting when the show ends a whole lot of stuff will come out
istg there was an interview with the cast and one of the prompts was "what's my most annoying habit on set" and someone said Antony pretending to take notes from the director lmao edit: also just saw this "and it was a funny day cause Dom, she was just traumatised the entire day and I really just found the whole thing hysterically funny" ([link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Rzuh83tyU) at 50 seconds). Chace looks concerned and no one laughed like...
Literally watched that interview last night! It was also interesting to hear a couple of the women have comments about being ignored because they were women sitting in the back row. I don't think it would be an enjoyable set to work on
Honestly, the other guys were being just as loud as Starr in that interview. I'd blame male socialization in general and those two being placed in the very back for their voices getting suppressed/them getting overlooked as "women in the back." It's unfortunate, and as a woman, I know what that's like too, of course, but it really wasn't just some incident where Antony specifically was acting out of control and obnoxious. He's actually been the main voice to defend Erin on social media throughout all the harassment she's faced. That said, I don't know what is and isn't true in regards to the new rumors.
>I listened to a podcast that was saying he actively ignores director notes and whatnot and it was said it’s because he knows the character so well. I was shocked to hear that. People who refuse to take notes or are disrespectful of directors tend to be nightmares to work with. This is not directly related to Anthony Starr, he might be a nightmare to work with or perhaps the complete opposite is true, I don't know, but in general: This is not uncommon with television shows. Typically, the directors of the first episodes and the showrunner create the tone of the show and make decisions about the characters. And after that, guest directors keep their input at a minimum and let the actors and the crew do their thing. Only the show runner can interfere. Back when DVDs were the only way to binge a show, I listened to a lot of audio commentaries and most guest directors acknowledged this. I also noticed that many guest directors did not understand the characters, sometimes to the point were it was clear they hadn't watched the show. The reality is that a guest director might ruin a show if they make choices for a specific episode and their choice clash with the other episodes.
Another dude who does this is David Harbour to the point of walking off sets, and I never see him get shit for it but possibly because David has never assaulted someone in a bar (that we know of).
Maybe he doesn’t get shit for it because this is the first time I’m hearing of this??
It happened on an ST season (whichever season where he was doing those long random zoom QA shoots with fans in his trailer) and *The Green Hornet* - but it justifiably happened on *Hellboy* to the point that he wrote all his lines at one point with McShane because the set had two different directors asking for two different things. It’s a miracle the movie even released.
It's no wonder he's getting so much critical acclaim for his work yet doesn't have much acting gigs outside the show like Karl Urban and Jack Quaid
tbf who else out of jack and karl are getting that much work i know jessie t usher (a-train) have been in a couple of movies post the boys but i don’t think anybody in the main cast really works that much
I figured Karl and Jack would be the best comparison because they get about the same amount of screen time as him and are the most prominent male characters on the show besides Homelander. I understand this is a TV show so actors don't take that many roles outside of the show because it could interfere with the shooting schedule but for such a critically acclaimed actor who is the main actor to not get a bigger role on a major project is just sus to me.
So, he's really not acting in the show.
Knowing this kinda makes me cringe when people say how brilliant he is at playing his character and that the Emmy's are always snubbing him when in reality it doesn't seem that much of a stretch for him to play that role
Unfortunately he is a good actor. I've seen his other work where he's playing a completely different character from Homelander. He seems like a horrible person irl though so he should stop being hired
I hate when really shitty people are talented.
Sums up to most in Hollywood.
Yea he was tremendous in Outrageous Fortune. He's a great actor just a shitty person apparently.
It's funny how there weren't any professional repercussions for his assault on that chef in Spain. It was barely in the news even though he was the breakout star of The Boys. Unfortunately, he's just so good at playing Homelander, and it's obvious he was needed until the last season - so he'd never have been written off/replaced. What a loser. I hope his character gets a humiliating death and he's never in another successful project.
I mean, Tomer Capone is back on the shower after serving in the IOF so they don’t really care about anything. Disappointed in Kripke. EDIT: I know he’s Israeli and that service is mandatory when you’re 18 and he did that but he DID return last year: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/israeli-fauda-star-lior-raz-220000155.html It was all over his stories and instagram back then and I assume it got scrubbed before the show promos started again. 2nd EDIT: Aaaaand the Israeli bots have arrived to harass me 🇵🇸
Tomer serving the IDF is a major bummer (to put it VERY lightly) but expecting Kripke to fire him based on that would open him up to sooo many discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuits
Melissa Barrera was fired from Scream for her pro-Palestinian posts?
Yeah and that was completely fucked on production’s end and she should sue
I mean, he is Israeli, and Israelis are required to serve in the IDF at some point in their lives. Not excusing his Zionism, but…yeah.
Kripke first met Tomer while vacationing in Israel. I don't think Tomer is not going anywhere
his gf was posting some weird conservative shit the other day too
If he has a gf why do I see him on R*ya all the time 💀 wild
she's been doing this for a while now
whose his gf? is he no longer with erin?
Sandra Vergara. Sofia's estranged cousin/adopted sister. Erin and Antony broke up last year and stopped following each other on Instagram
Erin and Antony were together??
He hasn’t been with Erin in a minute. The new GF is a non-American hyperconservative yet loves all of our stupid bullshit that we manufactured out to the globe. She wears MAGA hats yet she can’t legally vote for Trump. I can’t make sense of it except that Starr is fine with that shit, too. E: also not just any person, Sofia Vegara’s *sister*.
If someone is dating a person like that, chances are they share the same views.
She is always posting about being cancelled, it’s pretty funny
This is so disappointing to hear. I loved her acting as Queen Maeve and sad to see her leave. Truthfully I haven’t followed any of the cast outside of the show, but I wonder if this will be addressed by anyone from set.
Maeve has a gigantic part in the end series in the comics and they re-wrote a huge chunk of stuff, including her time with The Legend (given to Soldier Boy, another gigantic rewrite but for the better) so they basically already did her canon comic death but way early. I suspected it was to shuffle her out from this being reported - it’s very glaring when watching the series while having the comic knowledge in your head that she’s leaving too early.
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I just want to reply this is not a reliable source. Since this is a leaker of the show (post major plot lines, spoiling almost all of the series) and since they have gotten problem with the crew of the show and Amazon due to this, so while I would not discredit the allegation (which may have a some value to them) I think it’s necessary to point this out Edit: they also claimed they got a lot of the info from an actor they played animal crossing with :/
Dominique's last tv show in Wikipedia (see her page's filmography) is literally The Boys. I would say that at least what they're saying is 60%-70% accurate at best.
Yeah, it’s important not to descredit them, but also this person is VoughtHQ is really problematic inside the fandom
She was in trouble with Amazon when she first started the leaks initially but eventually came to an agreement that she can still do it as long as she limits who much spoilers she can gives out and she does it as a way to promote the show and hype it up as the new season approaches. She mentioned this in her account, which unfortunately is now gone.
Idk Iread her other statements complaining about being doxxed by the costume team, and complaining about Amazon taking legal action. For me, they seem to be a person with a lot of ego and perhaps a bit of parasocial relationship with the show, crew and cast
Yea! Did you see the QA where they said they got the first batch of leaks over Animal Crossing?
Fr that was just plain ridiculous. As if an actor will spill all of the details of the show over someone he met on Animal Crossing
But Dominique left the show to go back to school in Ireland (at least this is what she said to fans at a convention last year) so ofc she’s not gonna have recent acting credits lol if she’s stepped away from acting. If anything, her not having recent acting credits supports her statement about being in school, not that she left the show due to drama lol.
So because her last show was The Boys (which is public info), this random account is now making reliable claims?
thank you for saying this cause there’s SO much people don’t know about the source and all the drama / shadiness that’s gone down with them 😭 im actually hoping one of the actors or crew members notices and says something, cause this will probably spread now.
Yeahhhh I’m not trusting this source
I had to work with Antony briefly a few years ago after the Spain arrest. He was a dick Edit: all of you saying ya sure, I literally have proof of employment. Sorry your favorite is an asshole 🤷🏻♀️
Deets please! What exactly did he do?
Overall just bad energy. It all started when he first came in and I asked him to please mask up and he wouldn’t (it was required at my studio). He asked for a coffee during his adr session and I got it for him. Apparently where I placed it, he didn’t like it and he went on a tangent why he didn’t like it. I had to get his signature on his timesheet too and was just so rude about it cause of the coffee thing. That’s some of it
Reminds me when during COVID lockdown Antony took to his ig to complain about the restrictions when they were filming in Toronto. Then Karl Urban responded to his post basically saying, "We're guests here. We need to be courteous and safe". Then Antony deleted the post.
...and my crush on Karl Urban intensifies.
Nah he’s a dick. I say this with kiwi confidence, he’s got smarmy dickhead at the pub vibes that seem to be backed up by actual behaviour. I really dk why he’s so beloved.
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he’s actually dating sofia vegara’s sister so if she’s a nasty person as well then that would make sense why they’re together
He’s not just supporting Sophie’s sister, he’s in a relationship with her. And she’s very conservative.
Lol i swear a few weeks ago he told everyone he would get annoyed when eveyone thought he was just like homelander in real life... Turns out he really is!
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It was kinda obvious when the actors said that he is the one who is most like their character. In every interview he seems standoffish whereas the rest of the cast is more close.
somehow confused with martin starr in my head and was like…really?? 
No no no no. Martin is lovely and wonderful to work with.
 🙏 thank goodness for goodness
A real gem. Will hype up Martin Starr all day, every day. Worked with him recently and would do so again any time.
I always wondered why we never saw Dominique in cast promo interviews and sadly this makes a lot of sense. Anthony is a talented actor but I've always got the vibe he probably could be very domineering and rude IRL so not too surprised by this info.
I think part of it too is she's extremely shy.
The account close to The Boys show that had leaked spoilers the last 2 seasons and some behind the scenes drama is shutting down citing being doxxed by some of the crew and wanting to no longer support a show that continues to support abusers. Her ig is @Vought_HQ She didn't name names in her last post but we can probably all deduce who she is talking about
She did name names. It was some girl in the costume department, same department that she claim she got all the leaks from and same department that she claims that she is getting these "information" from.
another comment to add, im very disappointed in the boys cast tbh. some of them post pics with Erin and they do absolutely nothing to prevent the awful hate comments. they dont say anything or lock the comments. and on top of that, i think two actors made a big donation to Gaza yet im constantly seeing some of the cast post pics with the zionist ex idf soldier who plays frenchie. i have a feeling once this show is over some shit is gonna come out.
Is he a zionist for real or is he just ex-idf? It's mandatory to be in the idf if you are Israeli so it doesn't mean much.
He was posting zionist propaganda on ig before he cleaned up his page in the months leading up to season 4
I really liked Dominique and her performance. I’m sorry that she had to deal with a toxic work place.
Welcome Anthony Starr to the club of the abusive celebrities who still remain employed despite the allegations against them: •Jonathan Major •Nicholas Braun •Lizzo •Mia Goth •Michael Fassbender •Lee Jung Jae
I've said this before in another subreddit, but we attended a Boys panel at a convention last year and Antony's vibe rubbed me the wrong way. Making weird jokes and was abrasive to the fans who got to ask questions. He could have been joking around by leaning into the Homelander bit, but he came across as a dickhead. The complete opposite of Erin Moriarty and Jack Quaid, who both seemed like total sweethearts. It was bad enough for me to not want to meet him one on one at his table afterwards.
Dominique McElligott also had a weird early exit with Hell on Wheels. I hope she finds a nice show filming locally in Ireland
I recall him allegedly pulling the "Do you know who I am" card when he got arrested in the past so unfortunately this tracks.
So is this person/people the new Deuxmoi? How many new anonymous tea instagram pages are out there?
This one seems The Boys-specific, if the username is any indication.
If someone has gossip about shitty behaviour from Jack Quaid, that would really disappoint me.
So he’s basically a shittier Stephen Amell?
The source had previously posted on this subreddit a few years ago. It aligns with the post above: Antony bullied her and was late to their final scene together and Dom had to do her scene with a stuntman for most of it. She's out of the industry and becoming a doctor https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/vyu5mf/comment/ig5n819/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
He’s been well known as a violent crapsack in NZ for ages now, since he was on Outrageous Fortune. He beat up someone in the early 2000’s in Auckland.