Erin Moriarty discussed how they created The Boys multi facet heroines and the authorization and empowerment that comes after seeing imperfect women in the show. The Boys Multi Facet Heroines show the faulty heroines.
Moriarty disclosed how much she celebrates playing Annie/Starlight in The Boys because the show’s characters drift from “the standard portrayal of superheroes,” especially with its women characters. In a new interview with DigitalSpy. “I think we don’t fit into the superhero world,” Moriarty said. “I think we intentionally break that box, and I think we just try to make the statement that empowerment doesn’t equal flawlessness.” The Boys Multi Facet Heroines are the ones that made her celebrate her journey.
Moriarty indicated on The Boys Multi Facet Heroines don’t deliberately “fit in” to the superhero world outside of this show, because in those cosmoi, “you have these female superheroes [who are] super-empowered, and that’s amazing, but there’s no chink to their armor, there’s nothing that they do that’s in the grey area, no mistakes ever,” she added.
The Boys Multi Facet Heroines Are Incredible
While Moriarty supports the indestructible and strong The Boys Multi Facet Heroines, she calls them “great,” she acknowledged that she’s pleased to be laboring on a show that “breaks the mold,” where females are “equally empowered, as equally strong [and] equally badass.”
“They do things that lie in the grey area,” she added, discussing how characters like Maeve and Starlight make huge mistakes, even fatal ones to innocent bystanders in the heat of the moment or when trying to do what they think is best at the given time. “They do things that would be… ‘immoral’ but they’re also, you know, these are the most human superheroes I think that have ever been depicted in TV shows or in movies and that’s intentional.”
“When asked what she felt was empowering in the depiction of women characters within The Boys, she stated that “empowerment equals flaws, mistakes made, all of which strengthen ourselves as women, as opposed to defeating us.” The Boys Multi Facet Heroines are not actually multi facet in real lives.
Amazon Studios’ The Boys stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother’s Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as the Female, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as the Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander, Aya Cash as Stormfront and Simon Pegg as Hughie’s dad. New episodes of The Boys Season 2 will be released on Fridays on Amazon Prime.
