This Week’s The Boys Features a Marvel Studios Actor Cameo

Spoilers for course observe for The Boys Season 5, Episode 7.

With Prime Video’s The Boys coming to shut quickly — the sequence finale drops one week from at present — most of the characters’ arcs are nearing completion. And on this week’s episode, “The Frenchman, the Female and the Man Called Mother’s Milk,” Chace Crawford’s The Deep reaches a level that may mark the top of his story. And alongside the best way, he encounters a character who occurs to be voiced by a luminary from a completely different superhero universe altogether: Samuel L. Jackson!

Yes, Nick Fury himself is now a part of The Boys universe. Only right here, Jackson is enjoying a foul-mouthed shark named Xander. And he is none too happy with The Deep.

First Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell) caused an environmental disaster at sea, destroying a Vought oil pipeline which killed over a billion fish. Then The Deep killed Black Noir, his alleged pal, in retaliation. And this week, The Deep realized that Homelander (Antony Starr) was disbanding the supe group The Seven and would now not be needing The Deep’s companies. What was left for the Lord of the Seven Seas to do however go sit on a dock and drink a six-pack to wallow in his sorrows? Which is the place Jackson’s Xander is available in.

The hammerhead shark swims as much as The Deep and tries to persuade him to leap within the water. The Deep is just too deep into his self-pity at first to appreciate why his buddy Xander desires him to return in, till the shark yells out in full Sam Jackson mode: “We know you were responsible for the pipeline genocide. Remember March 15th, motherfucker!”

“We wanted a really distinct voice and who has a more distinct voice in Hollywood than Sam Jackson? So we just went to his agent,” showrunner Eric Kripke told Polygon about the voice cameo. “He was our first choice, and we were like, Does he want to do this? It was really just taking a flyer. But then it came back, Oh yeah, he likes the show and totally, he’ll do it. Boy, that’s a bucket list moment, man, of Sam Jackson reading your dialogue.”

Will The Deep be again for the finale, or does his story finish right here, with all of his former associates from the ocean wanting him useless whereas the human world sees him because the coward that he’s? Only time will inform.

But maybe there’s a good greater query: Is Xander associated in any respect to Sam Jackson’s co-star from Deep Blue Sea!?