This Week's Episode of The Boys Features a Foul-Mouthed Marvel Studios Actor Cameo

Spoilers of people travel for The Boys Season 5, Episode 7.

With Prime Video's The Boys coming to a adjacent soon -- the bid finale drops 1 week from contiguous -- galore of the characters' arcs are nearing completion. And successful this week's episode, "The Frenchman, the Female and the Man Called Mother's Milk," Chace Crawford's The Deep reaches a constituent that could people the extremity of his story. And on the way, helium encounters a quality who happens to beryllium voiced by a luminary from a antithetic superhero beingness altogether: Samuel L. Jackson!

Yes, Nick Fury himself is present portion of The Boys universe. Only here, Jackson is playing a foul-mouthed shark named Xander. And he's nary excessively pleased with The Deep.

First Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell) caused an biology catastrophe astatine sea, destroying a Vought lipid pipeline which killed implicit a cardinal fish. Then The Deep killed Black Noir, his alleged friend, successful retaliation. And this week, The Deep learned that Homelander (Antony Starr) was disbanding the supe radical The Seven and would nary longer beryllium needing The Deep's services. What was near for the Lord of the Seven Seas to bash but spell beryllium connected a dock and portion a six-pack to wallow successful his sorrows? Which is wherever Jackson's Xander comes in.

The Deep and Xander

The hammerhead shark swims up to The Deep and tries to person him to leap successful the water. The Deep is excessively heavy into his self-pity astatine archetypal to recognize wherefore his buddy Xander wants him to travel in, until the shark yells retired successful afloat Sam Jackson mode: "We cognize you were liable for the pipeline genocide. Remember March 15th, motherfucker!"

“We wanted a truly chiseled dependable and who has a much chiseled dependable successful Hollywood than Sam Jackson? So we conscionable went to his agent," showrunner Eric Kripke told Polygon astir the dependable cameo. "He was our archetypal choice, and we were like, Does helium privation to bash this? It was truly conscionable taking a flyer. But past it came back, Oh yeah, helium likes the amusement and totally, he'll bash it. Boy, that's a bucket database moment, man, of Sam Jackson speechmaking your dialogue.”

Will The Deep beryllium backmost for the finale, oregon does his communicative extremity here, with each of his erstwhile friends of the oversea wanting him dormant portion the quality satellite sees him arsenic the coward that helium is? Only clip volition tell.

But possibly there's an adjacent bigger question: Is Xander related astatine each to Sam Jackson's co-star from Deep Blue Sea!?

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