The Boys’ Karen Fukuhara Talks Bittersweet Finale Ending: ‘It Was a Really Emotional Moment’
If you felt a bit of whiplash from the Kimiko/Frenchie storyline after The Boys Season 4 finale, you aren’t alone.
“My jaw dropped because we had the kiss, and I was all ready, like, ‘Oh my god! It’s happening,” Karen Fukuhara tells TVLine’s Keisha Hatchett at San Diego Comic-Con about the first time she read the heartbreaking finale script. “Then, 10 pages later, I was like, ‘Oh no!'”
For the uninitiated, in the Season 4 finale of the Prime Video drama, Kimiko (played by Fukuhara) planted a kiss on Frenchie (Tomer Capone), which he happily returned after a beat. But after sharing the kiss, the pair wound up getting separated by Gen V’s Cate and Sam at episode’s end, prompting Kimiko to finally speak/scream, “Nooo!” (Read finale post mortem.)
“I always imagined her to say something that was in dire situations,” Fukuhara says. “I just thought it was the most perfect moment for her to speak because it comes from just such a guttural, necessity… Sadly, it doesn’t work out, but it was a really emotional moment.”
As for what’s to come for her character, Fukuhara hopes for a Season 5 happy ending, but adds, “It’s the world of The Boys, so I’m sure there’s going to be a roller coaster of emotions happening.”
The Boys was renewed for its fifth and final season in May, but the release date has not yet been announced. Earlier at Comic-Con, the franchise revealed it would be expanding with its third offshoot, Vought Rising, starring Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash. The prequel series will be “a twisted murder mystery about the origins of Vought in the 1950s, the early exploits of Soldier Boy, and the diabolical maneuvers of a Supe known to fans as Stormfront, who was then going by the name Clara Vought,” executive producer Eric Kripke and Vought Rising showrunner/EP Paul Grellong said in a statement.
Hit PLAY on the video above to watch the full interview with Fukuhara, then hit the comments with your hopes and dreams for Kimiko and Frenchie in The Boys Season 5!
It was such an intense moment that it took me a second to process the fact that she was screaming. They better get a happy ending