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Sister Sage spent most of season five episode seven of The Boys wallowing in self-pity and binging Love Island. Finally, a character on this show we can all relate to! The actor who portrays Sister Sage in The Boys – Susan Heyward – has gone into detail about what crucial mistake led to her downfall. This totally changes how I see that character.<\/p>\n

According to Susan Heyward, Sister Sage<\/a> screwed everything up because of a flaw in how\u00a0her specific superpower abilities work. She explained to Nerdist<\/a>: “Eric Kripke [the showrunner]<\/a> and I talked a lot about how her power works, and how she\u2019s always measuring possibilities and hypotheticals. She\u2019s thinking of the world in percentages. So, in her mind, there\u2019s an 87 per cent chance that when Soldier Boy sees a video of Homelander and Clara<\/a> together, he\u2019s not going to like it.<\/p>\n

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She really screwed up with the V-One
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“But the probability that love for Clara would switch something in Soldier Boy wasn\u2019t seen. He\u2019s such a performer of patriarchy, and that he would be self-sacrificial was surprising. We\u2019ve not seen that from him. And I think she didn\u2019t really imagine that possibility at all.”<\/p>\n

Susan Heyward reckons Sage didn’t think of this possibility because she herself hasn’t really experienced much love from other people. “Her parents let her get shot up with V. She\u2019s experienced her grandmother\u2019s love certainly, but she\u2019s gone now. After that, it\u2019s just one relationship after another of someone trying to use her … The willingness to sacrifice, to humble yourself in the name of love, is unthinkable for her.” Woah, that’s so tragic.<\/p>\n

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This scene changed everyone’s brain chemistry, to be fair
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Apparently, Frenchie dying to protect Kimiko<\/a> was “the second huge lesson in self-sacrificial love she gets in two days”. Susan teased that this will have a big impact on how Sister Sage behaves in the finale of The Boys<\/a>. “At the top of episode eight, we find her really considering what it would be like to change course for the first time. ”<\/p>\n

Eek, I can’t wait.<\/p>\n

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