The Boys‘ Tomer Capone recently addressed Frenchie’s sexuality and Season 4 romance, which revealed a new aspect of the character the actor loves. In the current season of the hit Amazon Prime Video series, Frenchie has a romantic relationship with Colin Hauser, marking his first on-screen relationship with a man on the show.

In an interview with Variety, the actor explained how he manifested the arc for Frenchie and Colin, inspiring The Boys’ showrunner Eric Kripke and the writers to devise the romantic storyline. “When I started with Frenchie, in terms of me assembling character and kind of puzzling who this guy is, I had a lot of inspiration for some reason from artists like Serge Gainsbourg, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger,” he said. “If you think about it, all those people have a sexuality that is not black or white. It’s somewhere in between. They’re so beautiful for being what they are.”

The Boys‘ actor continued, “On the funny side, I manifested it. I tell you why, because in the second season, they brought this T-shirt to the trailer with this crazy bone bunny, a skeleton of a bunny, on it. I had this idea out of nowhere, taking a pair of scissors and cutting it into a crop top,” he said. “I ended up on set with the crop top, and I remember Eric Kripke was on set and asked me, ‘Tommy, you know, it’s a crop top? We can see your belly button?’ I said, ‘Frenchie loves it.’ And he said, ‘All right, all right.’ Maybe that manifested the whole arc with Colin.”

“So, it’s just another beautiful color to explore in Frenchie’s painting. I loved it.”

“At the end of the day, it’s deeper than that. It’s the writers and the story trying to give you another angle and peephole to see this character, where he came from, and what his demons are made of. Frenchie is a tortured soul who walks into the crazy world of The Boys that is controlled by the Seven. And to the equivalent of our world with media and politics, he’s an outsider. So, it’s just another beautiful color to explore in Frenchie’s painting. I loved it,” Capone concluded.

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Kripke recently confirmed plans for Jared Padalecki to join the cast of The Boys in the upcoming fifth season. He also shared his thoughts on what a reunion between Padalecki and Supernatural co-star Jensen Ackles, who already plays Soldier Boy in The Boys universe, would mean for pop culture. “The value of that is to break the internet. So we’ll see whether it’s right for the story. But yes, it’s occurred to me that putting those two in a scene together would destroy much of the world, and that’s appealing,” Kripke said.

The Boys Season 4 is streaming on Prime Video.