00:00What TV shows and movies make you cry?
00:03Well, I tell you what, always season 5 is gonna make you cry.
00:06Hi, I'm Carl Urban, and I'm going to take 10 minutes with Deadline.
00:17Have to say minutes on a show like The Boys.
00:20If you say take 10, it means something quite different.
00:23So, are you still dying, hopefully?
00:25No, hearty inhale.
00:27See, that's a mistake most people make.
00:29They try to fight the cancer.
00:31Okay, describe the new season of The Boys in five words or less.
00:38Explosive, heartfelt, tragic, fun, and hilarious.
00:43What are you excited for people to see in this final season of The Boys?
00:48I think I'm most excited for an audience to see how this mothership lands
00:53and for the audience to see these characters meet their fate.
00:57It's a hell of a ride, and it's been an incredible four seasons, and the fifth season is ballistic.
01:04Butcher and his team are hell-bent on one thing, and that's taking down Homelander.
01:08What will you miss most about the show?
01:10I think I'll miss most about the show is the cast and the crew.
01:13You know, we've got a fantastic Toronto crew, and, you know, we've been together since 2018.
01:19And, yeah, I think out of everything, it's just that sort of brother and sisterhood, the connections.
01:24Those people are like family, and, you know, and that's a rarity in this business when you come together
01:28and you're working together often for much shorter periods of time.
01:31So, yeah, I'm going to miss those guys.
01:34Butcher is facing his own mortality.
01:37Did this make you think about your own bucket list?
01:40And if so, what's on it?
01:43That's a great question.
01:44Did it make me think about my own bucket list?
01:47Only in terms of, you know, you sort of, you do.
01:50You think that life is also infinite, and there's just limitless sort of possibility of what you can do.
01:55But you definitely get to a certain juncture where you realize that, you know, it's not.
02:00And there may be only a certain amount of time that you're going to hang out with the same group
02:04of people
02:05or a certain amount of times you're going to see, you know, a sunrise or something.
02:09So it makes you realize not to take anything for granted.
02:14Between your boys' co-stars, Jack Quaid, Laz Alonso, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan,
02:19who would be the best at fighting crime?
02:23Well, that's a good question.
02:25Jack Quaid, super hilarious, fun, have a round.
02:29Laz Alonso is quite smart.
02:31He's always, he's always coming up with the, the did you know, he's very well researched.
02:36So I think that he has good detective abilities.
02:39And Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a man close to my own heart.
02:44And I also think he'd be quite formidable, but I might have to give this one to Laz,
02:48just on, on his detective acumen alone.
02:52Okay, what do you have in common with Butcher?
02:54Well, we look pretty similar.
02:56I'd like to think that I'm quite driven like Butcher.
02:59Maybe not to the extent that Butcher is.
03:01I mean, I think he's quite obsessed.
03:02And, you know, certainly once I focus on something, I tend to have an ability to go for it 100%.
03:08And Butcher is certainly there.
03:10And particularly in this season, he's coming up with new plans and schemes.
03:13And with one falls over, he's straightened to the next one.
03:16And he's absolutely relentless.
03:18Definitely way more than me, probably.
03:20From Xena Warrior Princess, Lord of the Rings, Judge Dredd.
03:23To the boys, it seems you love a good fight.
03:25How do you prepare mentally and physically?
03:29Well, you know it's not real.
03:31Just pretend.
03:32Physically, yeah, you, you know, you have to be in pretty good shape.
03:36And we were blessed on the boys.
03:38We've got John Koyama, who is Emmy Award winning stunt coordinator, fight coordinator.
03:44So we were in good hands with that.
03:45But you have to approach, you know, those elements with the utmost respect.
03:49You can not only injure yourself, but you can injure other people.
03:52And you've got to be in good shape.
03:54And anything too dangerous, I'm quite happy to hand over to the professionals.
03:58I'm quite like, if you were at an average day on the boys set, you know, and we're talking
04:05through what we're going to do, you know, we talk through the scene.
04:07I'm like, okay, so, you know, Butcher punches, you know, say, Bombsite in the face.
04:13Then Bombsite punches Butcher.
04:15And then Bombsite grabs Butcher.
04:18And Gareth, my stunt double, goes flying across the room into a brick wall.
04:22And then Butcher gets up.
04:24So I know where the line is as to what I will happily do and what I will hand over
04:29to Gareth,
04:29who's absolutely amazing, by the way.
04:32A lot of your projects are based on comic books and video games.
04:36What's the nerdiest thing about you?
04:39What's the nerdiest thing about me?
04:41I guess the nerdiest thing about me probably is that for the longest period of time,
04:48I definitely have been a big fan of sci-fi franchises and fantasy and stuff.
04:53I've been blessed to have been a part of many of them.
04:55But, yeah, I'm also a huge fan of them.
04:57And I take, you know, any opportunity I can to watch it.
05:00And I appreciate, you know, when it's done well.
05:02Yeah, I'm really grateful to be a part of it.
05:05If you could have one...
05:07This f***ing question.
05:08If you could have one superhero power, what would you choose?
05:12Well, I do have a power.
05:14It's the power of invisibility.
05:15The older I get, the more invisible I will become.
05:18As a New Zealander, what's your favourite slang from back home?
05:23Yeah, something like, no wass, mate.
05:25Yeah, I'll just go with that.
05:27When filming away from New Zealand, what are some of the must-have snacks?
05:33Well, I'm pretty partial.
05:34If you ever get the opportunity, Whittaker's chocolate.
05:37If you're ever down in New Zealand and you get the opportunity to sample some Whittaker's dairy milk chocolate,
05:41just the plain chocolate, like, next level.
05:45It's dangerous.
05:47When was the last time you were starstruck?
05:49This is actually a really good question.
05:51It was, I'm thinking, okay, I'm going to sort of get the year wrong.
05:55But anyway, I took my son to the set of Force Awakens.
05:59I remember walking up the gangplank of the Millennium Falcon,
06:02and they're standing at the top of Simon Pegg.
06:04And I couldn't believe it.
06:06I'm like, what are you doing here?
06:07And he's like, oh, I'm in there.
06:08And I'm like, oh, of course you are.
06:09And it was actually not a great surprise.
06:11And we're chatting for a bit.
06:12And then Simon goes, oh, have you met Harrison?
06:14And I was like, and I turn around, and standing right behind me is Harrison fucking Ford in the Millennium
06:21Falcon.
06:21You know, I'm seeing, you know, the face of all my favorite childhood movies,
06:26and I completely lose the power of speech.
06:29Yeah, I just have such a, you know, an admiration and respect for him and all he's done in his
06:35career.
06:36And it was really fantastic to be able to watch him actually work there on set that day.
06:42What TV shows and movies make you cry?
06:45Well, I tell you what, I thought season five is going to make you cry.
06:48Yeah, spoiler, right there.
06:51But what they make me cry?
06:52Huh.
06:54Tell you what I watched the other day that might have brought a tear to my eye,
06:58and that was Cool Hand Luke.
07:00It's like a movie with Paul Newman made in the 60s,
07:03and there's this one scene where Paul Newman is talking to his mother,
07:06and you know it's like for the last time.
07:08And I don't know, it just might have affected me a little bit, that one.
07:12What can you tease about, oh, about the new Mortal Kombat film?
07:16I can say that, first of all, it was the most challenging film physically,
07:21technically, that I've ever embarked on in my career.
07:24I'm super proud of it, and I can't wait for an audience to see it.
07:27There's a fight in the middle of the film that Johnny Cage,
07:31the character I play, has with Baraka.
07:34That's probably the most fun thing that I've ever had the opportunity to do,
07:38and I'm so excited for you to see it, because it's fun.
07:42Who's been a career superhero for you?
07:47Wow, I've got many.
07:49I mean, really.
07:50Let's start with Ford, you know, De Niro, Newman, McQueen, Sigourney Weaver.
07:58New Zealand actors, Bruno Lawrence, Sam Neill,
08:00Tim Morrison, who I recently had the opportunity to work with
08:02on an Amazon movie called The Bluff.
08:04Russell Crowe, early on, huge inspiration.
08:06Like, you know, when he did Romper Stomper,
08:08I think that was a real kind of game-changer,
08:10particularly for those of us in New Zealand,
08:11to see a New Zealand actor come and just raise the bar like that,
08:14and then kind of transcend,
08:16not only in New Zealand and Australian industries,
08:19but then to take it global,
08:20and I think that him and a few others were shining lights in that regard.
08:23I'm Carl Urban, and thank you for taking the time with me here at Deadline.
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