The wait is over! Season 4 of The Boys has begun with three new episodes that are now available on Prime Video. If you have already seen them, you may want to revisit them, because only the most curious will have noticed a surprising hidden detail. Attention: the actress Tilda Swinton has a small cameo in the episode Foul Play Department (04×01). Does it sound familiar to you?
The Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress by Michael Clayton He has been encouraged to voice Ambrosius, Profundo’s octopod lover (Chase Crawford), who we already met in the third season of the series. “When we realized Ambrosius was going to be a character this year, we all said in the writers’ room: ‘We need the classiest Oscar-winning British actress we have on hand’. And that is a very short list. Judi Dench was not available,” jokes Eric Kripke, the creator and showrunner of the series, in an interview with Variety.
We contacted Tilda and, what gives her even more credit, is that she didn’t know any of us. She just said, ‘That sounds really fun, I’m in,’ and she did it. She was in Scotland at the time, she went into a recording booth there and I was giving her directions from a booth in Los Angeles.
Swinton is also part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where she plays The Old Woman in the world of Doctor Strange. “Hearing the best actress of her level reading the silliest lines makes me very happy. It was truly one of the best days at work of my entire life.“, comments Kripke with emotion.
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This idea also conquered Crawford, her fictional lover, from the beginning. “When they told me that Tilda Swinton would do it, I started crying with laughter,” she confesses to the media. CinemaBlend. “He must have a great sense of humor to want to come play with us in this crazy scene and bring Ambrosius to life., at last. It makes the scene much more fun and real, to me it’s hilarious.”
If you want to hear Swinton playing Ambrosius again, you just have to replay the first episode of season 4 of The Boyyes. Every Thursday, a new episode on Prime Video.
