The Boys’ Valorie Curry on ‘making a clown’ out of the right-wing role

Valorie Curry plays Firecracker in The Boys. (HBO)

The boys Valorie Curry has said she would “love” to make a “clown” out of her right-wing superhero character Firecracker.

Warning: The boys season four spoilers ahead.

The boys has returned to Prime Video and has already given viewers enough blood, guts and gore to put a stop to. The series creator has already been forced to speak out about “woke” claims and confirm when the show will end.

Elsewhere in season four, viewers were introduced to Firecracker (played by Curry), the anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist. Her character draws parallels between the culture war between left and right in the US, especially as the presidential election approaches.

In the series, Firecracker said at a convention that the motivation behind her superhero persona – who runs an incredibly divisive podcast called Truth bomb about the series – is that it gives far-right supporters a ‘purpose’.

Curry’s character tells Nurse Sage (Susan Heyward), “What would you rather believe? That you belong in a community of warriors fighting a secret evil, or that you are a lonely, insignificant nobody that no one will ever remember?

Now, Curry – who identifies as a lesbian – has spoken about what it’s like to play such a controversial role.

“I love that I get to play her, because I think it should be one of us who gets to make an ass out of her, who gets to satirize her and make a clown out of her,” she said in an interview. with The Lawyer.

“And also to ridicule these people and their absurdity, their ignorance and their violence, I’m happy that it comes from within the community and is allowed to take those photos.”

Her character’s anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric echoes messages from female Trump supporters such as South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert. Curry revealed that this was a deliberate move The boys writers.

She said: ‘I was happy that the writers chose to go as far as she did with her rhetoric, because that is the rhetoric that we actually see to be the truth.

“Often the worst things Firecracker says are quotes from elected officials. And so I’m glad they didn’t generalize it and soften it.”

In fact, showrunner Eric Kripke told Variety that Firecracker’s inspiration came in part from Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

He told the outlet: “Firecracker was like, ‘Hey, isn’t Marjorie Taylor Greene scary?’ And just that kind of personality.

“For example, you had Trump, but now you have this Trump spawn trying to outdo each other because of how outrageous and sexualized, weaponized and slavishly obedient they can be.

“And just that idea – it wasn’t going to start and end with Homelander, he was going to create these tracks that would evolve into these other characters, and she’s a version of that.”

The first three episodes of The boys season 4 is over Prime Video now with new episodes every week.

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