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One of the standout moments from Prime Video's The Boys was when Billy Butcher drove a boat directly into a whale. Obviously, they didn't use a real whale (no animals were harmed in the making of The Boys), so production had to create a set for the whale's insides that the actors would walk around. The only problem was was that they had to shoot that specific episode in the middle of a heat wave with wasps. 

The heat was especially devastating for Laz Alonso, who plays MM on the show, because he was duped into thinking that there would be air conditioning inside the whale set. 

"I was promised by Eric Kripke and one of the producers that even though the whale was going to be 55 feet long outside in the middle of the summer, 97 degrees plus humidity on a beach in Toronto, that the whale would be air conditioned. They told me, 'Don't worry about it. It's going to be air conditioned. We got hoses that are going to be piping in cold air.' And so I'm like, 'Cool,'" Alonso began. 

"And when I get there and I'm inside the whale and the whale's like 200 degrees, I'm like yelling for air conditioning and all these people are laughing at me. And I'm like 'I swear, I'm not a diva actor. I'm just asking for what I was promised...' They're like, 'There's no air conditioning inside the whale. This is a set.'"

That's when Alonso's co-star Karl Urban piped in, sharing that there were wasps inside the whale. "Because the wasps were attracted to the blood, which had a syrup base. So it was a dangerous environment all around," Urban said. 

Watch The Boys season 5 panel with Karl Urban and Laz Alonso from Seattle's ECCC 2026 here: