Hughie goes through a lot in The Boys. From his very first scene, where he ended up covered in the blood and guts of his own girlfriend, the down-on-his-luck loser usually ends up caked in some kind of bodily fluid. But in The Boys season 3, Hughie finally gets a little power back.
Along with Billy Butcher, the latest season of the TV series shows him taking a temporary, riskier version of Compound V to get even with the Supes once and for all. While this leads to him developing powers like super-speed, it does come with some drawbacks — like, ending up naked whenever he wants to use his powers.
But in an interview with Discussing Film, Jack Quaid, who plays Hughie, admitted that he didn’t mind being butt-naked on camera. In fact, The Boys cast member said it was a fair “trade-off” if it meant he could act like his favorite X-Men character…
“I love playing the moral center, but I think that you don’t really quite earn the right, as a character, to be the moral center of a show until you’ve been through the fire – until you’ve made some mistakes, wrestled with that, and come through to the other side and realize that you made a mistake and you’ve changed,” Quaid explained.
“Hughie was a very good character, and still is a very good character. But if we don’t see that goodness tested, then what’s it all for?”
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He continued, “I also loved that the reason why he’s being tempted into this dark side is all because of Temp V, and I loved being able to actually play with a superpower. Granted, I had to get naked for a lot of it, but it’s a solid trade-off because Nightcrawler is one of my favorite X-Men, and I got naked for Nightcrawler powers!”
Somehow, we can’t see Supes becoming MCU characters anytime soon, but for more on The Boys, check out our guide to The Boys season 4 release date. Or, read more about Hughie’s development in season 3 of the drama series in our interview with showrunner Eric Kripke.