Frenchie Boys Actor Tomer Capone Opens Up About His Same-Sex Relationship in Season 4

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers from Season 4, Episode 5 of “The Boys,” currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Midway through Season 4 of “The Boys,” things look bleak for our non-traditional heroes, as Frenchie (Tomer Capone) leaves The Boys to turn himself in for all the murders he committed before working with Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie. (Jack Quaid), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) and now Annie/Starlight (Erin Moriarty).

The decades of guilt over these deaths, including the blood on his hands after killing his new love Colin’s (Elliot Knight) family when Colin was younger, led Frenchie to a drug-induced nervous breakdown and mental breakdowns. subsequent confession in a prison at the end of the episode.

But with The Boys investigating the super virus and Homelander’s (Antony Starr) continuing fight against humanity, why did Frenchie decide it’s time to go to jail, when he’s safe to be needed by his friends?

“In a way, you’re trying to show what a moral compass is,” Capone said. Variety. “This show has so many flawed characters. The good guys are bad and the bad guys are good. In the end, if Frenchie makes the decision to turn himself in, it’s a matter of moral compass, of someone wanting to clean up the room in their soul, wanting redemption, wanting to start over, wanting to be authentic and to balance his moral compass more than anything. Faced with characters very far from those in the series, this gives a certain balance. We have to show a little bit – just a little bit – which is the right decision opposite, for example Butcher’s decisions or Homelander’s decisions, which are, let’s face it, not surprising. But more than that, it’s a question I also asked myself: “Why does he need to do this?” Why did he do this when it was in the past? But the past still haunts us. We all experience that moment in life where we wish we could go back, do stupid things again and be better. The question is: what are you going to do with this today? And it was interesting, and it was a good question to ask myself while working on the piece.

Last season, Frenchie and Kimiko explored their feelings for each other and determined that they have a love that seems to go beyond romance to a family bond. This season, they still take that approach, and Kimiko encouraged him to have a sexual relationship with his crush Colin, which marked Frenchie’s first on-screen relationship with a man.

Capone explained how the story came to be while working with “Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke and the writers.

“When I started with Frenchie, in terms of putting the character together and finding this guy, I was inspired a lot, for some reason, by artists like Serge Gainsbourg, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger,” Capone said. “If you think about it, all these people have a sexuality that’s not black and white, it’s somewhere in between. They’re so beautiful for who they are. On the funny side, I manifested it. I tell you why, because in season two, they brought this T-shirt into the trailer and it had this crazy bone rabbit, a rabbit skeleton, on it. I got this idea out of nowhere, taking a pair of scissors and just cutting it into a crop top. I ended up on set with the crop top on and I remember Eric Kripke was on set and he asked me, ‘Tommy, you know, is that a crop top? Can you see your belly button?’” I said, “Frenchie loves it.” And he said, “All right, all right.” Maybe that manifested the whole arc with Colin.

He continued: “At the end of the day, it’s deeper than that. It’s the writers and the story trying to give you another angle and another look to see this character, where he comes from, what his demons are made of. Obviously, Frenchie is a tortured soul walking in the crazy world of The Boys that is controlled by the Seven. And compared to our world with media and politics, he’s an outsider. So this is just another beautiful color to explore in Frenchie’s painting. I loved. »