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Steve Ahlman

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3761 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

We only have a couple of actors like that in the MCU left who really love suiting up and doing these characters.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

You got, like, I think, like, D'Onofrio was one of them.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

I think Florence Pugh.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

Chris Hemsworth loves being Thor.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

And, like, to know that they have a little bit of, like, creative agency...

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

In, like, the actual script writing process, not so much this committee that we've been used to in the MCU.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

I'm very interested in that.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

It was.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

It was ambitious.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

Ethan Hawke, man.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

No, but I think what Charles is hinting at is kind of my big grander theory of if there was a whole dismantling of

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

like the business model of an MCU of this interconnected continuity of all of these blockbusters leading into another with all of these other characters bleeding over.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

I would have wanted a world full of the Batmans.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

It's nothing but one-offs.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

You have a story that's driven by one certain actor or one certain story or one certain cast, and then that's it.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

And then the next project is the next project.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

Yeah, but is it any different than any other pressure that an MCU movie has gotten?

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

Yeah, but that's the thing, though.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

It doesn't fuck up your entire... There's always going to be superhero movies.

The Ringer-Verse
’The Boys’ Season 5 Premiere Reactions | The Midnight Boys

There's always going to be things that we look off into this and be like, oh, well, there's the next thing.