The third season of The Boys has now been released on Amazon Prime–at least, the first few episodes. The graphic violence, a trademark of the show, is back, along with the nudity. While this is something we’ve seen countless times in this series, seeing Jensen Ackles make his big reveal as Soldier Boy gave us some surprises we weren’t expecting.
Ackles’ character is the universe’s equivalent of Captain America (but not just another Steve Rogers), making his appearance in the episode “Glorious Five Year Plan” which showed him coming out of a cryogenic sleep fully naked. Jensen Ackles spent months building up his muscles for this scene before shooting.
What Was The Experience Like?
Ackles spoke recently with Entertainment Weekly about what filming a scene such as this was like, especially considering the actor has never done anything like this before. He revealed that he was actually completely naked in the scene, having only been wearing a modesty sock.
Mentioning his beard during the interview, Ackles stated that he didn’t only work on building extra muscle for the role but grew out his facial hair for the very cave-man-like scene. “I didn’t know that I could grow a beard,” Jensen Ackles joked to Entertainment Weekly. He first started growing out this huge beard back in lockdown in 2020 while he was in the mountains of Colorado with his wife and three children which he showed off on Instagram. “It became its own thing. I had more products on the bathroom counter for my fair on my face than anything else and it was a little obnoxious. My wife was done with it. She was like ‘enough with the beard. Can we get rid of that?”
Be sure to check out the third season of The Boys on Amazon Prime today.
