India, May 29 -- Kiwi actor Antony Starr has spent four seasons embodying one of television's most chillingly narcissistic villains, Homelander, in The Boys - a man so twisted he once engaged with a shapeshifter impersonating himself, only to murder them in a bizarre act of self-affirmation. During a roundtable conversation with Entertainment Weekly's Awardist series, the 49-year-old actor revealed that even after all this time, he still finds himself shocked by how much affection some fans express for the character played by him.

"We had a bunch of guys that we all kind of knocked them down a little bit on social media to say, 'This guy is not the hero of any story,'" he said alongside actors and fellow Emmy contenders Aimee Lou Wood, T...