11/6/2023 0 Comments Jessie usher![]() Because nobody is 100% good or 100% evil, right or wrong, there’s just a matter of perspective a lot of the time and we do play around with that. The fact that we do get to play around with that is honestly the best part about being on this show. But I feel like in a real-world scenario, someone with this much power and with this much pressure would always be somewhere in the gray area. Usher: I think that’s the best part about playing the character, he’s on the line a lot of the time. Usher in ‘The Boys’ Season 3 courtesy of Amazon Studios Does that kind of character journey excite you? Because you went from a character who the audience is primed not to like to being someone who is still maybe not a traditional superhero but is more morally nuanced. So I was able to put that together early in the season but from the very beginning, I didn’t know where it was going to go. He was the guy to hate, especially if you’re A-Train. From the first three scripts or so, I figured it was going to be Blue Hawk because he was abruptly just the person. So that was really interesting to see play out. I felt that there was going to be some type of breaking point for him, I just didn’t know when it was going to happen or how. I knew that he was going to have some type of nemesis or someone that was going to sort of be egging him on. Usher: It was very fluid because I didn’t have a clue what direction A-Train’s character was going to go at the start of season 3. Did you have an idea of that trajectory from the beginning, or has it been more of a fluid process around developing the character? Usher for The Boys on Prime Video A-Train’s character has changed a lot across the show, especially in season 3 where we see him reconsider his place in the world. ![]() ![]() This is the second installment in our FYC interview series with The Boys cast, featuring Jack Quaid (Hughie Campbell), Laz Alonso (Mother’s Milk), Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko Miyashiro), Tomer Capone (Frenchie), Jensen Ackles (Soldier Boy), and fellow member of The Seven, Chace Crawford (The Deep). Usher to talk about A-Train’s character arc, on-set relationships, and what the future of the Prime Video original series might hold in the upcoming fourth season. Reflecting on the blockbuster-sized third season of The Boys, we sat down with Jessie T. Usher impressively finds no trouble in leaving his mark as A-Train. In a show filled with big personalities like Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher and fellow super-powered members of “ The Seven” like Antony Starr’s Homelander or Erin Moriarty’s Starlight, Jessie T. He is set to reprise the role of A-Train in The Boys Season 4and its upcoming college-set spinoff Gen V. Usher made his name as a child in TV commercials and has previously starred in major Hollywood productions including Independence Day: Resurgence as the son of Will Smith’s Steven Hiller, 2019’s Shaftas the latest in the titular dynasty, and most recently the horror smash-hit Smile. Usher, who brings superstar charisma and dramatic introspection. ![]() Plotlines like this, and an eventual reunion with Hughie where their dynamic is flipped on its head, leave A-Train in a new and compelling headspace that moves him into a thrilling position on the chessboard that is this show.Ī-Train is brought to life by actor Jessie T. In The Boys Season 3, that manifests in the character returning to his community, only to find it being over-policed by a racist superhero named Blue Hawk (Nick Wechsler). Since that scene, A-Train has been on a journey of redemption and rediscovery. While that moment crowns Hughie Campbell as the de facto protagonist, in introducing us to A-Train it also reveals something about The Boys going forward: just how willing it is to blur the lines between hero and villain, good and evil. The Prime Video original – adapted from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic book series of the same name by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke and superstar producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg – returns to this moment again and again across its three seasons as we see A-Train’s relationship with superhero society shift. Usher as A-Train, the superhuman speedster whose carelessness sets the entire conflict of The Boys in motion. Arguably the star of this scene is Jessie T. For many people, the scene that sold them on Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys will have been its very second in the first episode, a violent and tragic example of the potential of superpowers that in many ways acts as a thesis statement for the entire series.
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