The mysterious Black Noir suffers from an equally mysterious illness. Image source: Amazon
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This article contains spoilers for The Boys – Season 4.
The Boys always surprises its fans with unexpected twists and exciting character developments.
But even off-screen, the series delivers some surprises – and the latest concerns the second Black Noir and Nathan Mitchell, who has played the mysterious superhero since season 3.
What many don’t know: Mitchell and his character have a surprising thing in common.
The real background behind Black Noire’s greatest weakness
In the fourth season of The Boys, Black Noir makes a surprise return, despite being brutally murdered by Homelander in the previous season.
The solution to this puzzle is relatively simple: The original wearer of the suit died, but a new character took over the suit from Black Noir, leading to the birth of Black Noir II.
The successor also has superhuman abilities – in the current episode 7, for example, he showed that he can fly. But he also has a weakness: the new Black Noir suffers from narcolepsy.
His illness is so severe that he falls asleep while standing during a fight with Billy Butcher (Karl Urban).
But the sleep disorder, which has already caused some funny moments in the current season, is not simply plucked out of thin air.
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In an interview with the podcast Happy Sad Confused His co-stars Antony Starr (Homelander) and Chace Crawford (The Deep) revealed that Mitchell actually often fell asleep on set.
Crawford initially said:
We’re in scenes and he literally falls asleep.
Starr confirms this and adds a little anecdote from the filming:
He really does fall asleep. There is a scene where it says: Is Noir sleeping?
and he wakes up and says: I am narcoleptic
was [Mitchell] is in real life. He fell asleep at the table in this costume.
Black Noir star confirms his naps
Mitchell himself confirmed these anecdotes in a Interview with TV Insider and said that his friends often laughed about how he would fall asleep on the couch at parties in high school:
That’s what I’ve done my whole life, taking a nap here and there.
The fact that his illness is now being packaged in funny scenes does not bother him. Instead, he has a lot of praise for the series’ scriptwriters, who managed to integrate the unique aspects of their actors into the characters:
The writers are so great. They see us and take unique parts of our personalities and put them into the roles in really fun and creative ways. It’s a cool character trait and I’m glad we get to explore it.
