Erin Moriarty on Her Character Annie Officially Joining 'The Boys' at San Diego Comic-Con | THR Video
Erin Moriarty tells THR at San Diego Comic-Con what it means for her character Annie to officially join 'The Boys.' Plus, she speaks on the impact of the responses she gets from fans of 'The Boys.'
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00:00What has it been like returning to comic-con and getting to see your fans and address them from the hall each stage?
00:05Surreal like it is impossible to be immune to the fact that we came here five years ago
00:10We were bribing people with food to get them into that audience or an audience in a hall
00:15and to be here five years later is just like
00:17honestly, we don't I don't work in an industry where meritocracy is as
00:22Applicable or relevant as I would like but it is a situation that is an anomaly to a degree that feels like God
00:29Sometimes you can put in work that yields results that correlates the amount of effort that you put into it
00:34And that's not always the case. So this is pretty surreal and pretty magical and
00:38Unique and I wish it wasn't as unique as it is, but it is so I'm not taking a second for granted
00:43Starlight really puts in the work in season four. What was it like doing scenes with yourself and fighting yourself interesting
00:50So basically from the I always look at it from the characters perspective and what will make it work
00:55The most in that moment and both characters are not looking at it from the perspective of working with themselves
01:01You know, like the shapeshifter is not Annie and Annie is not the shapeshifter. So from the shifters perspective
01:06I'm not looking at Annie like that's me. So I didn't work with myself
01:09I did I knew what I was gonna do
01:11But I worked with like a body double or an acting double Amelia who's amazing who would emulate what I was gonna do
01:17But I had to not I had to not
01:21Project into the future and look at this other entity as myself
01:24so I think it was um
01:27the trip was like the amount of work it took to differentiate the characters enough to
01:32make it just like
01:36Here's the thing
01:36It's ultimately a metaphor for identity crisis and that for me for Annie is something that I will never not do my best to
01:43Do justice in terms of her storyline
01:45That's all I want to do is I want to portray it as best I can
01:48So that requires going the extra mile in terms of preparation in terms of everything
01:53To carve out every granular detail that will make the two be different and will make this storyline
01:58Come to life as best it can so it was challenging, but ultimately I didn't look at it from that perspective
02:04What was it like having Annie be an official member of the boys this season?
02:08I mean, we've all been waiting for it, right? It was so good. It was so much fun
02:11Also, I'm not gonna lie like I love my super suit. I love it. It's beautiful
02:15It's like it's the most brilliantly made super suit or these are the most brilliantly made super suits
02:21I've ever seen and our our costume designer LJ is an artist
02:25however, wearing art every day lends itself to a hyper awareness that
02:30Meant that being in the boys was not just liberating from a character's perspective, but from Aaron's perspective
02:36It was like very comfortable. So all around it was great
02:40Heading into the final season. How do you think or hope this all ends for Annie?
02:45Honestly, okay
02:46Previous season and I look at the situation with the deep which was kind of brilliant because
02:51She gets to approach the situation where she gets to enact revenge on someone who is the person that is
02:56Initiating and perpetuating violence to begin with so she's not walking up to the deep and throwing a punch
03:01He is attacking her and out of defense
03:03Excuse me out of defense. She beats him down and she beats him and we have this cathartic
03:08Karmic moment that we all or that I have been waiting for that happens as a result of no moral
03:15Or character deficits in any I want to see her enact more revenge
03:19I want to see it in the way that she would do it
03:21Which is a situation that would entail her being put in an uncomfortable position
03:26Because she would never perpetuate violence in the way that like someone like a deep would obviously
03:31But that entails us experiencing cathartic
03:34Karma once again, because it does send this subliminal message out that
03:38Basically says good guys sometimes
03:41Doing and I need that. I think we all do
03:43Throughout the seasons your character has
03:46been a vessel of addressing these sort of real-world problems that women deal with from sexual assault to also then
03:52The abortion storyline this past season for you
03:54What is the fan response been like to sort of spreading these messages via your character?
03:58I think the most important thing for me has been to
04:02Hear that people have felt less alone when watching these storylines be depicted
04:07Which is exactly why I became an actor to begin with like I would watch things as a young girl and I would feel lonely
04:12With certain issues I was feeling or going through and I hope that it's made one less person feel lonely
04:19Even if it happened for a millisecond, that's enough and that feedback whenever I get it, which has been, you know
04:25present and
04:27it's been present enough to just feel like
04:29that in itself makes it worth it and it's just a
04:32Very lucky and awesome moment of connection that I feel like I get to benefit from even though I'm not writing the material, you know
04:40Eric announced the spinoff Vought Rising here at comic-con today. What are you excited to see in that spinoff?
04:45Honestly, Aya Cash is so brilliant. Like she is just the best person. She's a brilliant actress
04:50I want to see her at large in this universe in some way
04:54So the fact that that's happening and then Jensen, of course is not hard to look at and he's a brilliant actor
04:58So those two it's like
05:00I'm gonna be fan watching something that like came from my universe and as an only child
05:04I'm probably gonna experience only child syndrome at first, but I'm so excited and it's those two
05:09It's the talent involved. It's Kripke Jensen and Aya that team up is like unparalleled. I mean Annie's an only child
05:16Are you one in real life too? I am I mean
05:18I have two little half sisters who are my sisters
05:20But I was raised as an only child and so I definitely definitely suffer from that. I'm an only child, too
05:26So I am yes thing like I have moments where I'm like, I don't know about that in the moments where I'm like
05:31Oh, no, no 100% you can spot us in a crowd
05:33I feel like in certain moments like the like the announcement of the spinoff
05:37How have you used that experience to you know portray Annie who's also an only child? Oh
05:43Man, I mean I try and use all my personal insights into what might make any more of a human, you know
05:48I feel like that's just my job is to like
05:51Find her nuances and make her breathe life in a way that you might not be able to see on paper
05:57And so every personal experience I've had be it being an only child
06:01May infuse her in a way that I'm not even aware of because I think about that and I'm like, okay
06:05Well, that's something I'm familiar with
06:07therefore, I'm going to focus on other areas to really get granular and really make sure that she is not dropping any moment in a
06:15very
06:16Emotionally honest way
06:16so I
06:18feel like it's something that I didn't think of it as much as other areas of her life and that's something that like
06:23Is a testament to the fact that everything that you go through whether it's hard whether it's amazing and positive you can use in a way
06:29That's like not to glorify the bad bits, but in a way that can kind of be beneficial for ourselves
06:35You