THE BOYS Star Jensen Ackles Reveals His "Holy Sh*t" Reaction To Planned Herogasm Episode

THE BOYS Star Jensen Ackles Reveals His "Holy Sh*t" Reaction To Planned Herogasm Episode

The Boys star Jensen Ackles has shared his thoughts on the upcoming "Herogasm" episode, revealing that both he and a member of the crew had a pretty visceral reaction to what they saw playing out on set.

By JoshWilding - Mar 25, 2022 08:03 AM EST
Filed Under: The Boys

When The Boys returns for its third season this June, it will adapt the "Herogasm" storyline that follows the team as they infiltrate the Voight-sponsored annual event that...well, it gets pretty hardcore. 

How the massive superhero orgy will translate to live-action remains to be seen, but Jensen Ackles (who is joining the Prime Video series as Soldier Boy) was definitely taken aback by what he witnessed. Talking during a recent SXSW panel for The Boys recently, the Supernatural alum spoke about the impact the scenes they shot during "Herogasm" had on the cast and crew. 

"I think everybody knows that they somehow managed to tackle Herogasm this season," Ackles started. "How they did that I will not say, but...holy sh-t. I'll give you just a little story. I walked on set, not to say that I was in that particular scene or whatever, but I was working that day and I walked up to our camera operator who was eating a sandwich outside of set, he had his mask down."

"He was eating a sandwich, he had this really troubled look on his face and I said, 'Hey man, what's going on? How's it going in there?' and he goes, 'Man, I've seen some sh-t today!'" the actor continued. "And I was just like 'Oh, Oh no!' So, yeah, good times."

Needless to say, we're now even more intrigued to learn what "Herogasm" will entail, and it certainly sounds as if the plan is to push the boundaries of what can be shown on television! 

The Boys returns for its third season on Prime Video on June 3.
 

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bobevanz
bobevanz - 3/25/2022, 8:08 AM
Finally lol
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 3/25/2022, 8:09 AM
It's gonna "come hard and fast"? Uh......interesting choice of words.
TheyDont
TheyDont - 3/25/2022, 8:13 AM
@CorndogBurglar - It's almost like it's intentional.
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 3/25/2022, 8:19 AM
Peak kino.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 3/25/2022, 8:23 AM
I know this show seemingly "pushes boundaries" but there's no way that can get away with maybe even half of what the Herogasm comic does. If they do, that would be a big surprise. I'm someone who thinks this show isn't as raunchy as it is perceived.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 3/25/2022, 8:35 AM
@BlackBeltJones -

Mah dicky hat.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 3/25/2022, 8:43 AM
@Reeds2Much -

Typhoon20
Typhoon20 - 3/25/2022, 8:55 AM
Man I like The Boys and all and I'm all for gore and nudity as long as it serves the story (Invincible for example was perfect in this regard) but I feel and worry they're leaning too much into shock value and less into telling a good story with great character development. Some parts from the comics just doesn't translate well to TV and shouldn't honestly, Herogasm is just that. ''Oh look how disgusting they can get !''. We know bro, since the very first episode.

I watch The Boys for Urban (I find Butcher the only fascinating character that IS a multi-dimensional character as opposed to every other one) but Invincible just does it better as a whole.
Evansly
Evansly - 3/25/2022, 3:59 PM
@Typhoon20 - Invincible is truly incredible. I thought Amazon did a great job with The Boys and then Invincible took it to another level.

I don't know a lot about the Herogasm story and will wait to see what they do but I really hope they prioritize story telling.

Regardless I can't wait for Season 3 and sadly season 2 of Invincible is really far off.
Twenty23Three
Twenty23Three - 3/25/2022, 9:02 AM
Knowing that it’s a known thing in the comics, and knowing that people are anticipating it in the show, of corse they are going to play it up like this. I highly doubt it’s as graphic as he’s maybe implying but it’s good to get people talking
TheCoonII
TheCoonII - 3/25/2022, 10:41 AM
Yawn their just going to show the sexiness but cover up all the boobs anyway that's what they do now they'll show all the dongs but boobs are baaaaad
TheLobster
TheLobster - 3/25/2022, 10:50 AM
This series is easily one of the very best, if not THE best, within in the genre.

Can’t wait
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 3/25/2022, 11:58 AM
As if this show couldn't get any wilder. Can't frickin wait.
bl0odwerk
bl0odwerk - 3/25/2022, 12:51 PM
Why not just watch XXX porn parodies?
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 3/25/2022, 1:30 PM
I keep thinking that image of him with the mask is photoshopped.
Mugens
Mugens - 3/25/2022, 1:32 PM
Still trying to get used to Jensen without the shorter "Supernatural" hair.
Nightmare
Nightmare - 3/25/2022, 2:03 PM
Really trying to sell it.
Magus
Magus - 3/25/2022, 2:49 PM
It was a choice to make Herogasm part of Free Comic Book Day last year. Checked it out for the first time. Meh. Didn't find it that shocking aside from a nasty hunch back gag. Was mostly juvenile. Wouldn't be surprised if they actually improved on it a bit for the show.
MitcHendricks
MitcHendricks - 3/25/2022, 3:24 PM
GARBAGE SHOW.
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 3/26/2022, 11:40 AM
@MitcHendricks - garbage comment.
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