The first three episodes of The Boys season 4 are now streaming on Prime Video, and the premiere sees the return of The Deep’s (Chase Crawford) octopus lover, Ambrosius.
There’s a sentence we never expected to type, but he’s a… unique fella is our Kevin.
First introduced in season 3’s debauched “Herogasm” episode, Ambrosius has been living in secret in Deep’s apartment at Vought Tower. The Lord of the Seven Seas’ superpowers allow him to communicate with his cephalopod significant other, and if you thought she sounded familiar, it’s because showrunner Eric Kripke enlisted an A-list actor to voice the character: Tilda Swinton (Doctor Strange, Avengers: Endgame).
“Once we decided we were going to have Deep have regular conversation with his octopus wife, we just wanted the biggest, classiest British Oscar-winning actress we could possibly find,” Kripke tells EW. “That’s a reasonably short list. We didn’t know Tilda. It’s not like some of our other cameos where they’re friends of friends and we reach out to them. We just reached out to a rep and sent her the script. To her everlasting credit, her rep was like, ‘She loves this and thinks it’s hilarious and would love to do it.”
“Watching the classiest possible actress record the dumbest possible sh*t was one of the great professional days of my life,” he adds.
Swinton isn’t the only season 4 guest star, so be sure to keep watching.
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“The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power,” reads the official season 4 synopsis. “Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son as well as his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late.”
Returning cast members include Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit, and Cameron Crovetti, along with new recruits Susan Heyward, Valorie Curry, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
The first three episodes of The Boys season 4 will be available to stream from June 13th, with new instalments dropping weekly through to the season finale on July 18.
