Lydia Conwell2d ago

#TheBoys Season 2

It's getting going now, from episode 3.

I hated Stormfront from the beginning but now her character is having a purpose to the story.

It's going places now.

#TV

Show threadLydia Conwell2d ago

Billy Butcher is an interesting character. He's a flawed hero. He's not always very nice, but somehow he's still one of the good guys.

I'm curious about him not being played by a cockney.

The character is kind of a parody of the cockney geezer in British gangster movies or something. He's kind of over the top and quite funny. His dialogue is a parody of British swear words -- swearing that's slightly misused, and not quite how British people speak, but also, kind of, yeah, that's how they speak.

I think the character works better because the actor isn't British. And I sort of imagine the character not working well if the actor was British.

He's hilarious though.

#TheBoys #TV

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Show threadLydia Conwell1d ago

@hakona Well, I say he's in part a joke character -- over the top -- so by using a non-British actor it emphasises the parody element of the character. So it allows the character to be completely nuts and brings out more comedy in the character.

That's kind of what I'm trying to say.

If it was a British actor, they might try to play Butcher with a bit more seriousness which wouldn't work so well.