{"id":2263,"date":"2026-05-24T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/24\/laz-alonso-on-his-the-boys-spinoff-pitch-how-mothers-milks-story-feeds-into-vought-rising\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:35:00","slug":"laz-alonso-on-his-the-boys-spinoff-pitch-how-mothers-milks-story-feeds-into-vought-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/24\/laz-alonso-on-his-the-boys-spinoff-pitch-how-mothers-milks-story-feeds-into-vought-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Laz Alonso on His \u2018The Boys\u2019 Spinoff Pitch, How Mother\u2019s Milk\u2019s Story Feeds Into \u2018Vought Rising\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t[This story contains spoilers from the fifth and final season finale of The Boys<\/em>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\tLaz Alonso<\/a>\u2019s character Mother\u2019s Milk was one of the few characters that got out of The Boys<\/em> unscathed (if unscathed meant not dying by the series finale<\/a>). <\/p>\n

\tAfter saying goodbye to the rest of his fellow supe fighters after Billy Butcher\u2019s funeral, Mother\u2019s Milk returns home to life with his wife and daughter. But he doesn\u2019t leave the group alone, as it\u2019s revealed that Ryan, the son to supervillain Homelander and Billy Butcher\u2019s late wife Becca, has gone with him. \t<\/p>\n

\tAlonso tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> the decision for Mother\u2019s Milk to take Ryan under his wing \u201cwas a symbol of breaking generational curses.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIf we understand who Ryan is to MM, he\u2019s very close to MM\u2019s story, because he\u2019s the grandson of Soldier Boy, the man that killed MM\u2019s grandfather and sent him down this completely different life of spiraling out of control,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen [series creator<\/a> Eric] Kripke explained to me the whole arc of the character, it just blew me away, how much thought he\u2019s put into these characters and their stories.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tBelow, Alonso elaborates on Mother\u2019s Milk\u2019s ending in The Boys<\/em><\/a>, the story he thinks should be explored in a potential spinoff, how his character\u2019s backstory may lend itself to the new prequel<\/a> Vought Rising<\/a><\/em> and what the show has meant to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\tBy the very end of The Boys<\/em>, we learn that Mother\u2019s Milk has returned home to his family, but he also took Ryan with him. Why do you think Ryan ended up going with him?<\/strong> \t<\/p>\n

\tIt was always Eric Kripke\u2019s intention<\/a> to make Mother\u2019s Milk story an arc about breaking generational cycles and curses. If you remember in season three, that was the season we actually got to learn what was haunting Mother\u2019s Milk, his backstory. Why does he have OCD? Why is he so passionate about hunting down these supes? [Viewers learned] where his war against Vought came from, and it came from Soldier Boy killing his grandfather in Harlem. That\u2019s what completely changed his life. The irony here is that Mother\u2019s Milk\u2019s biggest fear has never been supes. His biggest fear was passing down his generational trauma that he got from his dad and his dad got from his dad. They were all fighting against this whole Vought and supe situation. The more MM tried to fight passing down that trauma, the more he actually made it worse. And in season five, we finally see a side of where he lets go of that fight, where he\u2019s almost become a cynic and given up. He\u2019s no longer the beacon of hope, the glue, the guy that\u2019s trying to look at the bright side of things and keep the team together. He\u2019s relinquished that need to control the situation. But the weirdest thing happens when you no longer try to hold on to something so tight that it slips between your fingers. When you let go, you\u2019re free, and he found freedom in that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tBeing able to adopt Ryan and take him under his wing was a symbol of breaking generational curses, because if we understand who Ryan is to MM, he\u2019s very, very close to MM\u2019s story, because he\u2019s the grandson of Soldier Boy, the man that killed MM\u2019s grandfather and sent him down this completely different life of spiraling out of control. So when Kripke explained to me the whole arc of the character, and MM has to live and what his responsibility is moving forward by taking Ryan under his wing, it just blew me away, how much thought he\u2019s put into these characters and their stories and arcs. I\u2019ve read comments online and they\u2019re like, \u201cWe feel like [MM\u2019s] story was not finished, because he didn\u2019t kill Soldier Boy.\u201d But killing Soldier Boy wasn\u2019t necessarily MM\u2019s full story. His full story was regaining his life, making it home to his family and not passing on the trauma that he\u2019s carried on for so many years. \t<\/p>\n

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\tWhen you first read the finale script, was there anything specific that stood out to you that shocked you? Were you shocked that MM was going to live? Did you think there was a possibility he would die?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\tNo, I knew since season three that MM wasn\u2019t gonna die. Kripke and I had very, very deep conversations about MM\u2019s series arc. Especially in season three, when he started to really become more of a prominent character within the group. But I didn\u2019t think that Butcher was gonna die. I did have hope that something was gonna change and Butcher wouldn\u2019t have to die, especially at the hands of Hughie. That really broke my heart to read. [Karl Urban and Jack Quaid] played it beautifully. These guys, the life that they gave to what was on the page \u2014 you can only write so many details. When the actor takes hold of it, they give it a whole new, different breath, and I just felt like Jack and Karl, their relationship and friendship made that scene so beautiful. It did not play the same way it read [in the script]. It read a little bit more violent. And they played it with so much humanity and tenderness. It was a tearjerker.<\/p>\n

\tMM is one of the characters who did not die by the end of The Boys<\/em>, and he kind of got what he wanted out of all this craziness of the Boys\u2019 journey, which was going home to his family. Do you think that he\u2019s now ready to leave behind his supe-finding past and move forward?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\tI think so, to be honest. You know, I think that the fact that he made a promise to Stan Edgar, MM is a man of his word, and Stan Edgar told him that he was gonna be running far again. MM told Stan Edgar, \u201cWhen that day comes, I have a job to do, too, and that\u2019s to put a bullet between your eyes.\u201d So, I do think that in the Vought universe, as long as Stan Edgar exists and he continues to proliferate this business of supes running amok, it\u2019s only so long before he is gonna feel like he has a job to finish. And now he\u2019s got Ryan by his side, so there\u2019s a lineage there. You think about when Butcher recruited Hughie [in season one] and he taught him the ropes. I almost feel like there\u2019s something there with MM and Ryan that would be really interesting to develop. \t<\/p>\n

\tYou mean like a future potential Boys<\/em> spinoff starring MM and Ryan?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\tHey, listen, I\u2019m always pitching. So, Amazon, if you\u2019re listening; Kripke, if you\u2019re listening. No, I\u2019m kidding. As an actor, you\u2019re always thinking in stories, in storylines. Obviously, this is not a conversation that was had with me or this is not something that was told that there\u2019s a potential thing. But in my mind, that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. MM made a promise, and if I know him \u2014 and I think I know him pretty well \u2014 he meant what he said.<\/p>\n

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\t \t\t\t\t\tTomer Capone (Frenchie), Laz Alonso (Mother\u2019s Milk), Karl Urban (Billy Butcher), Jack Quaid (Hughie Campbell) and Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko) in The Boys<\/em> season five.<\/span> \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJasper Savage\/Amazon Prime Video<\/cite> \t\t\t\t\t \t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\tVought Rising<\/a><\/em> is going to be coming out next year, and this is going to tackle the Soldier Boy era of the Seven. It\u2019s a prequel series set in the \u201950s. We\u2019ve talked about MM\u2019s family\u2019s past with Soldier Boy, and although that piece of the story doesn\u2019t necessarily occur specifically in the \u201950s, do you think that Vought Rising<\/em> will at all explore that connection to MM\u2019s family?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\tI think they should. I anticipate that Vought Rising<\/em> is gonna have a very, very successful launch and many successful seasons. And at some point, as time progresses \u2014 I don\u2019t know what kind of timeframes or time blocks they\u2019ll be building each season \u2014 but at some point, I think it would be interesting to see Soldier Boy in Harlem. The connection between Vought Rising<\/em> and The Boys<\/em> really is, if you think about it, a direct storyline connecting to a member of The Boys<\/em> to Soldier Boy. So, it would be interesting to see MM\u2019s mom working in a compound V factory, MM\u2019s dad suing Vought for unsafe work conditions, MM being born with a V addiction, if they decide to show any of that. There was a lot that connected The Boys<\/em>\u2018 world to Vought<\/em>, and that connection was through Soldier Boy and MM.\u00a0 \t<\/p>\n

\tI have seen the behind-the-scenes photos that you\u2019ve been sharing from set on <\/strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a>. Are there any other behind-the-scenes moments from the final episode that stand out to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\tI have so much in my camera roll. I\u2019ve got seven years worth of pictures, and it can get a little overwhelming because you don\u2019t want to flood your timeline with just pictures of The Boys<\/em>, but there\u2019s so many funny moments and most of them were off-camera. Our funniest, craziest moments were in between takes. Everybody\u2019s last day [on set], I was privileged enough to get everybody\u2019s last day wrap speeches. Erin [Moriarty]\u2019s, Karen [Fukuhara]\u2019s, Karl [Urban]\u2019s, Jack [Quaid]\u2019s. I did not get Tomer [Capone\u2019s wrap speech], because I wasn\u2019t there the day that he shot his last day. But they\u2019re such beautiful speeches; they\u2019re heartfelt, everyone is basically in tears. At some point, I would love to do an homage to my castmates\u2019 final speeches once they wrapped. It just really shows the connection that we shared for seven years with our crew. We really did share a special connection with a family that we never knew was waiting for us in Toronto. That\u2019s something that we\u2019ll cherish forever.<\/p>\n

\tWhat has being a part of <\/strong>The Boys<\/em><\/strong> meant to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\tIt means so much to me that it\u2019s hard to summarize, but I\u2019m gonna say joy. Because, from a career perspective, I feel like I\u2019ve gotten better on this show. I\u2019m a better actor now than I was seven years ago. From a friendship perspective, from meeting genuinely good people who want nothing from you except to make sure that you\u2019re okay, I\u2019m literally speechless. I\u2019ve never had this experience in any work environment, especially in my film and television career, where we\u2019ve been surrounded by good people. I can\u2019t compliment any higher than that. \t<\/p>\n

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\tAll eight episodes of <\/em>The Boys season five are now streaming on Prime Video<\/a>. Read all of <\/em>THR\u2019s coverage of <\/em>The Boys season five here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Logo text [This story contains spoilers from the fifth and final season finale of The Boys.] Laz Alonso\u2019s character Mother\u2019s Milk was one of the few characters that got out of The Boys unscathed (if unscathed meant not dying by the series finale). After saying goodbye to the rest of his fellow supe fighters after Billy Butcher\u2019s funeral, Mother\u2019s Milk returns home to life with his wife and daughter. But he doesn\u2019t leave the group alone, as it\u2019s revealed that Ryan, the son to supervillain Homelander and Billy Butcher\u2019s late wife Becca, has gone with him. Alonso tells The Hollywood Reporter the decision for Mother\u2019s Milk to take Ryan under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1410,2,1411,163,407,85,335,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eric-kripke","category-hollywood","category-laz-alonso","category-prime-video","category-the-boys","category-tv","category-tv-features","category-vought-rising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}