Homelander Actor Antony Starr Says at 50, He's Too Old to Play Resident Evil Bad Guy Wesker, but Admits 'People Keep Bringing This Up'

The Boys histrion Antony Starr is often suggested arsenic the perfect idiosyncratic to play Resident Evil atrocious feline Wesker successful a aboriginal adaptation of Capcom's fearfulness video game. A batch of that has to bash with his unthinkable show arsenic blonde haired supervillain Homelander. And Starr precocious got fans excited when, astatine a convention, helium responded to a instrumentality who said he’d beryllium a large Wesker by saying helium wanted the role.

But conscionable however superior is helium astir playing Wesker? Speaking to Comicbook.com up of the 5th and last play of The Boys, Starr downplayed his interest, insisting helium was simply offering a banal reply erstwhile asked astir Wesker astatine the convention.

“I don't adjacent cognize what it is, man,” Starr said of the Wesker role. “I'm an histrion from New Zealand, and if radical connection you a occupation you spell yeah, cuz there's not galore jobs successful New Zealand. So I'm trained into reasoning like, if idiosyncratic said, bash you privation that? Yeah. I privation that! What is it?”

However, Starr did admit that he’s getting much and much instrumentality requests to play Wesker. But helium thinks, astatine property 50, he’s excessively aged to play the villain, and that the lone crushed radical deliberation helium should play Wesker successful the archetypal spot is due to the fact that of Homelander’s blonde hair.

“So radical support bringing this up,” helium said. “The lone happening I person successful communal with that is blonde hair, which I've gotten escaped of arsenic you tin see. I deliberation you astir apt request idiosyncratic younger. I'm 50.”

As immoderate fans person already pointed out, Starr being 50 astir apt wouldn’t marque him excessively aged to play Wesker (most deliberation conscionable reprising his Homelander look would beryllium cleanable for the role). Indeed, The Boys co-star Jensen Ackles, who plays Soldier Boy, insisted Starr was “perfect” for the role, adding: “That would beryllium amazing. I would ticker it.”

Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot movie, retired aboriginal this year, does not diagnostic immoderate characters from the video games. Speaking astir the task past year, Cregger himself said his movie would beryllium "obedient to the lore of the games," but besides a antithetic communicative from thing shown successful Capcom's franchise previously. "I'm not going to archer Leon's story, due to the fact that Leon's communicative is told successful the games," helium said. "[Fans] already person that."

So if Starr truly did privation to enactment his sanction down arsenic Wesker, he’d astir apt person to hold for a antithetic instrumentality from a antithetic director. So what's adjacent for Starr? He's trading successful his cape for a white-haired wig and spectacles to play creator Andy Warhol successful Samo Lives, a biopic astir Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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