After portraying the infamous superhero villain throughout the show’s entirety, Starr will step away from the character when the Prime Video series wraps its upcoming fifth season.

Antony Starr has bid an emotional farewell to his “complicated” The Boys character Homelander after the superhero satire wrapped production on its final season. The 49-year-old has played the twisted superhero since the series debuted in 2019.

When ‘The Boys‘ first exploded onto Prime Video in 2019, it was a shockwave in the superhero genre. Bloody, gory, and unapologetically satirical, it tore down the perfection of classic superhero stories and replaced it with a world where “heroes” were corporate products and moral compasses were optional.