The Boys season five’s fifth episode ended as many of the show’s episodes do: with total bloody chaos. Soldier Boy and Homelander go to visit Mr. Marathon, a former Seven member who has info about V-One and Bombsight, and things go nuts from there. Wild comedian cameos, commentary about Homelander ruining America, a Supernatural actor reunion, and a lot of blood and flesh everywhere all culminate in one truly diabolical sequence. During our interview with Misha Collins, he revealed that there was a lot of improv while filming that particular The Boys scene.
“A lot of the portion of that scene, which was with the cast of celebrities, was a lot of improvisation that went into our filming,” said Collins, who played the gaseous supe Malchemical. “As is quite customary, we shot what was scripted. We managed to get that portion filmed as scripted. And then I think we probably spent twice as long filming additional footage that was improvised. There was more extensive riffing and improvising than we ever did on Supernatural, and we did it sitting around that table.”
While he was not totally sure how much came to the screen because he hadn’t seen the episode at the time of our chat, he felt admittedly a bit intimidated by it all. But, it was an overall blast for him, thankfully. “It went on for a very long time and it was a lot of fun,” Collins affirmed. “And I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m sitting around at this table doing improv with Saturday Night Live guys. I’m out of my depth.’ But it was actually a lot of fun and I quite enjoyed that. So for me, that was the most memorable aspect.”
We were so happy to see Misha in The Boys and to have a scene reuniting him with Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. And, when you add in all the one-liners and great jokes, its a sequence that will go down in infamy.