When it comes to death scenes, Claudia Doumit’s Victoria Neuman certainly got a memorable one during The Boys’ Season 4 finale.
The Vice President-Elect finally had enough after Homelander threatened her daughter, Zoe, and called up Hughie for help. Victoria wanted out, and he was the only person in the entire world she could turn to in that moment, she explained. To prove her trustworthiness, she gave Hughie Zoe’s location. In exchange for getting her and Zoe to safety, Victoria promised to help The Boys take down Homelander.
But just as the two sides were about to cement their alliance, Butcher entered the room, seemingly intent on destroying all supes after witnessing Ryan kill Mallory, and declared that there would be no deal. Then the tentacled, Compound V-fueled monster inside Butcher broke out of his chest and took hold of Victoria, lifting her up in the air and ripping her body in half.
“What a way to go!” Claudia Doumit, who plays Victoria, tells TVLine in the above video. “It was a fun day shooting. I was, like, rigged up, and they were like, ‘And you’re struggling, and you’re struggling. And she gets ripped!”
By killing Victoria, Butcher inadvertently sets into motion Homelander and Sister Sage’s plan, albeit with some curveballs: President-Elect Robert Singer is arrested after video is leaked of him previously calling for Victoria’s assassination, while Starlighters are blamed for her murder. With the White House’s top leaders gone, Speaker of the House Calhoun steps in to be President and declares his allegiance to Homelander, deputizing supes nationwide, who will report to Homelander.
Victoria’s demise, “I think, story-wise, it makes sense,” Doumit says. “I do believe there are so many other components of this world and this story that need to be told. There was no part of me that wasn’t expecting it or wasn’t shocked by it.”
But understanding the reasoning behind it didn’t make saying goodbye to the character or her castmates any easier for Doumit, who joined the series in Season 2, before being promoted to series regular ahead of the third season.
“On the day we were shooting it, it was emotional because I had this realization that I’m not going to be able to play her again, and I’m not going to be able to, like, walk like her again or talk like her again,” Doumit shares. “Whenever you’re saying farewell to a character that you’ve loved, it is a grief, in a weird way, because you’ve got to play it. So throughout the season and throughout shooting, every day, I was like, ‘OK, let’s do it.’ Like, kind of be present with it and just be like, ‘Let’s go have fun. This is going to be great.'”
“But also emotionally, like, I’m so sad. I’m going to miss you guys so much,” Doumit adds, turning to her co-stars Erin Moriarty (aka Annie/Starlight) and Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko).
Fukuhara returned the love, sharing, “Claudia, as a human being, is always, like, taking care of the feelings of other people, and I feel like maybe that kicked in at the end.”
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