There are many benefits to starring in the successful Prime Video series “The Boys,” but there also tends to be a big downside. Almost every actor involved in the series will certainly go through at least one really disgusting and disturbing scene. Erin Moriarty, who plays Starlight, ended up having a lube mess while filming “Herogasm,” for example, and The Deep actor Chace Crawford had to pretend to eat his octopus friend, Timothy. There's also often a ton of bodily fluids involved, which is a big problem for the character Mother's Milk, who has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and a fear of germs. Laz Alonso, who plays MM, has had to go through more than his fair share of disgusting moments, and in season 4, he went through his worst time.
In an episode of the “Midnight Boys” podcast, Alonso shared some behind-the-scenes details about filming a truly dirty scene in the sixth episode of season 4, aptly titled “Dirty Business.” the character who has had the most gross-out moments, but for Alonso, it seems like what happened in season 4 really got the better of him.
One moment made Alonso break character
Poor breast milk actually had to endure a lot of ridiculous and disgusting things throughout “The Boys.” He's been sprayed with gallons of fake semen and fingered by a long, undulating love sausage (don't ask), but in Season 4 he had to help Web-Weaver (Dan Mousseau) inject drugs into his, uh, rear entrance. Instead, he initially sticks the syringe into the Web-Weaver's web hole, located just above the poop hole, but then he manages to get it right and the Web-Weaver shoots some web right into MM's cheek. It's a nightmare for anyone, but for someone with OCD it's even worse. For Alonso it really wasn't much better to film, as he explained in the podcast:
“I filmed a lot of disgusting things, as you know, on our show, this is the only scene in my entire career… this is the only scene where I broke character and screamed. I'm not going to tell you what happened during the scene that made me break character and literally scream in fear and apologize profusely to that man, for literally an hour straight.
It appears there was an accident that involved Alonso potentially touching Mousseau's chocolate starfish, which is pretty traumatizing as acting accidents go. It's hard to blame Alonso for yelling and apologizing so much, although it's pretty strange that he went through so many wild situations on the series to begin with.
Web-Weaver's weirdness may have been too much
What happened with Web-Weaver is far from the only time Alonso has had a gross moment on set (he also had a run-in with The Deep's gills), but he took it all in stride. However, it makes us wonder why there are so many extreme moments and how they impact the series as a whole. While some gross-out moments are a lot of fun, there are those that go too far, and everything with Web-Weaver definitely does that. The drug injection and webbing are kind of funny, if a little sad and gross, but when Hughie (Jack Quaid) dons the Web-Weaver suit and is sexually assaulted by Tek Knight (Derek Wilson), it's too much.
It will be interesting to see how the team behind “The Boys” handles the fifth and final season, and whether or not they try to up the ante on badassery. Given the escalation of bodily fluids, killer animals, and dark humor, we're almost certain to be grossed out.
