A Whale of a Time! Actor Laz Alonso Reveals His Favorite Scene from ‘The Boys’

Laz Alonso stopped by The Rich Eisen Show to talk about The Boys, and the answer to the favorite-scene question pulled from a corner of his childhood that almost nobody saw coming.

The scene, Alonso said, is the one in season two where his crew crashes a speedboat into the inside of a whale. The script was written by Chase Crawford. Alonso had grown up watching The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and a small part of him had always wanted to end up inside a whale. When he read the script, it felt less like a job and more like a delivery from above.

"It was almost like God spoke to me, like, you got your wish, kid," Alonso said. The cast did not know about that piece of his backstory until episode five, when the script landed and he started reading. He kept doubling back on it because he could not believe it was real.

The production scaled to match the bit. Alonso said the team built a 75-foot animatronic whale and dropped it on a beach in Toronto in the middle of summer. Outside the whale, it was 95 degrees and humid. Inside the whale, it was about 110. The actors came out of the scene completely covered in blood, and Alonso called it some of the most fun he has ever had on a film set.

Rich pulled the conversation toward another favorite question, which Supe Alonso would most want to kill. Alonso started to answer Soldier Boy, then caught the framing again and remembered Rich was asking him as Laz, not as Mother's Milk. He held with Soldier Boy anyway, on the grounds that he has been playing Mother's Milk for seven years and is not about to break ranks with his best friend on screen.

"What he did to MM, if anybody did that to one of my friends, they'd be my enemy too," Alonso said. He also acknowledged the obvious case for getting Homelander out of the picture, and Rich noted that Homelander's father might be even worse.

The conversation drifted to the airplane scene, the moment Alonso said convinced him the show had gone fully off the rails. He said it crystallized the broader idea The Boys keeps returning to. Having powers does not guarantee that anyone will use them well. Rich called it another allegory for the times. Alonso agreed, then closed with the line that has carried the whole bit. The whale was always the dream. The show, somehow, made it real.