I think that really gets to Homelander, you know, ‘You’re running around thinking you’re running the show and I have to mitigate all the damage because you’ve allowed the public to know what Compound V is.’
I think my secret is to be centered and with Stan, when I watch Stan, he seems so different than some of the other powerful, in-control, slightly villainous characters I played before and I was looking and going, ‘Why is that?’
He’s not rocked by the world, he’s a guy who’s on top of the world and circumstances are going to happen and he has to take steps to mitigate the damage, as he says in one scene to Homelander.
So what I feel really my secret is to listen, I really take Antony in when I’m in those very intense scenes with him, I really take the other actors in and I feel like I’m not threatened by him because I’m going to find a solution and I’m going to find a way to convince any of those Seven coming to me with their problems or Homelander with his big ego, I’m going to try to figure out how to get them to understand that it’s bigger than they are.