The Boys star Jack Quaid keeps trying to pull off a behind-the-scenes coup, his co-star reveals

Karl Urban and Laz Alonso talk about the power struggles on and off camera Across The Boys’ five-season run, Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and Mother’s Milk aka MM (Laz Alonso) have repeatedly fought over the best way to lead the eponymous supe-hunting organization. The extremely aggressive and abrasive Butcher is the group’s de facto leader, while the more methodical Milk often handles operations after Butcher recklessly pushes things too far. But in a virtual junket ahead of season 5, Alonso tells Polygon that the power struggle is even more complicated off-screen. “What you don’t see on camera is, there is one member of The Boys who every season has been trying to be the leader, and that’s Jack Quaid,” Alonso says. “Every season he pitches himself to [showrunner Eric] Kripke and us: ‘You know, guys, I really think that Hughie should be the leader of The Boys this season.’ And every season he fails miserably.” Alonso says Quaid was visibly upset in season 4 when Milk took the reins of The Boys while Butcher was dying of cancer. But Quaid made one last pitch for the show’s final season, which opens with MM, Hughie, and Frenchie (Tomer Capone) locked in a “Freedom Camp.” “He invited T