Sterling K. Brown Reveals He Turned Down a Villain Role on 'The Boys'

Sterling K. Brown has revealed he turned down a season-long arc on The Boys.

The actor recently spoke with Variety about his career and said that he had an opportunity to star on Amazon Prime Video’s hit show, but decided not to.

“I think it was a bad guy [role] because it was very tempting. But a full-season arc, they are in Toronto — it’s tough,” explained Brown. “Listen, these are Champagne problems I’m talking about here! But because I’m blessed enough to already have certain things in place, I get a chance to be a bit more choosy.”

If Brown were to have appeared on The Boys, chances are he’d have had to deal with the series’ big bad Homelander and his wild milk fetish. Last year, Homelander actor Antony Starr revealed how the creators of The Boys came up with the villain’s milk kink when speaking to Rolling Stone.

"So my memory is it came up in the scripts—full credit to the writing team on this, because it was so weird," Starr told the publication. "It started with X-ray visioning my Oedipal mummy figure while she was breastfeeding, and me pining like that and having a jealous relationship with the baby. And then at the start of Season 2, I found some of her…Homelander found some of her breast milk in a freezer and lasers it, starts drinking it, gets caught."

"And it was so funny and weird, and I think I sent [showrunner Eric Kripke] an email after that scene going, 'Dude, we gotta get as much milk in this show as possible. This is gonna be like a little motif or a signature thing. Like, we have to do it.' And he was like, 'One step ahead of you, brother. I'm putting it in everything.' And so now every opportunity we get, the milk thing comes out,” added Starr. “We don't have to do anything with it, either. If I just look at someone and sip milk, there's a twist to it. It's become a really fun thing. The fans have really glommed on to it. And enjoyed it."

The Boys is set to wrap up with a fifth season coming sometime in the near future. Creator Eric Kripke announced the news on X ahead of the fourth season’s release date last year in a post, writing, “Season 4 premiere week is a good time to announce: Season 5 will be the final season! Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax.”

Kripke later on expanded on the decision to end the show with a fifth season when talking to the Hollywood Reporter. “From the very beginning, I wanted to wrap it out around Season 5,” Kripke shared. “And then I would say plans really solidified that we were going to actually do it years ago. I think we were probably in the middle of making season three, so it could have been three or four years ago that we always knew."