“The Boys” star Karen Fukuhara talks the dildo fight scene, hospital musical and her singing.
Do not read if you have not yet watched episode 5 of “The Boys” Season 3, titled “The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies.”
Despite playing Kimiko, the quietest member of the Boys, Karen Fukuhara is also one of the deadliest. “The Boys” star has plenty of fighting experience, having played Katana in DC Comics’ “Suicide Squad,” and years of martial arts training, but Season 3 of Prime Video’s adult superhero show threw two new challenges at her: fighting with dildos and performing a song-and-dance number. The brutal and hilarious dildo fight scene took place in last week’s episode of “The Boys,” which featured a trove of superhero-themed adult toys in a Russian gangster’s bedroom. But instead of the dildos being used for their intended purposes, Kimiko gouged mobsters’ faces with them as a Russian version of “I Will Survive” soundtracked the violence. The dildo fight scene — which may be the first of its kind in TV history — is played for laughs, but it underscores Kimiko’s growing frustration with her powers, which make her feel like a monster. Episode 4 of Season 3 ended with Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) reawakening and catching Kimiko in an explosive blast. She gets impaled on a piece of rebar, and her self-healing powers are unable to repair the damage. In Friday’s latest episode, she wakes up in a hospital, feeling better and having lost her powers completely, much to her relief. While she and Frenchie (Tomer Capone) are watching a video of Judy Garland singing “I Got Rhythm” in her hospital bed, Kimiko opens her mouth and is suddenly able to sing perfectly. She whisks Frenchie out of the room and performs a song-and-dance routine to the song, complete with hospital workers and patients dancing with X-rays and bedpans.
“It’s not the No. 1 song that people would recognize,” “The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke told Variety, “but [writer Ellie Monahan] made this really compelling argument. Once you look at the lyrics and it says, ‘I’ve got starlight, I’ve got my man.’ There’s all these references that apply to the show that made it feel like kismet that we use this song.”
The entire musical bit is revealed to be Kimiko’s daydream, and she and Frenchie share an awkward kiss after it ends. But before they can talk about what happened, Little Nina (Katia Winter) kidnaps Frenchie. Elsewhere in the episode, Seth Rogen cameos as a horny subscriber who watches Crimson Countess on a camgirl livestream, shortly before she’s killed by Soldier Boy. A-Train (Jessie Usher) forces the pro-cop supe Blue Hawk (Nick Wechsler) to apologize to local Black residents for over-policing their community, but Blue Hawk turns violent and attacks the crowd, injuring A-Train’s brother.
