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The fifth and final season of The Boys is generating controversy on multiple fronts, and the latest involves one of the original core cast members, Tomer Capone. Capone has played Frenchie on the series since it premiered in 2019.
Tomer Capone, the Israeli actor who plays Frenchie on the hit Prime Video series The Boys, is facing backlash and boycott calls after a 2016 interview he gave to the Israeli outlet Ynet resurfaced this week.
Unearthed interview with The Boys star Tomer Capone reveals he was an IDF soldier who kidnapped Palestinian teenagers
In the unearthed interview, Capone described his experiences serving in the IDF, including participating in night raids on Palestinian homes in the West Bank to detain individuals, with accounts of handcuffing, blindfolding, and abducting an 18-year-old Palestinian girl.
“In the middle of the night, you storm a family’s home in a way that isn’t aggressive, but the family doesn’t let you take their 18-year-old daughter easily,” he said in the interview.
“في منتصف الليل تقتحم منزل عائلة بطريقة ليست عدوانياً، لكن العائلة لا تسمح لك بأخذ ابنتهم ذات الـ 18 عاماً بسهولة”
هذي اقتباس من مقابلة أجراها القذر تومر كابون عام 2016 مع اعتراف الممثل الإسرائيلي بمشاركته في عمليات اختطاف وضرب ونهب للفلسطينيين خلال سنوات خدمته في جيش الاحتلال pic.twitter.com/UwFtyyf1dI
— سكارف (@Scarfalajme) April 11, 2026
Given the rapidly declining global perception of Israel and the IDF, fans of The Boys were incensed to learn about Capone’s past.
– “Oi oi Frenchie. Homelander killed me wife, and took me bloody son”
– “Monsieur Butcher, Homelander has every right to defend himself, Ryan was promised to him 3000 years ago” pic.twitter.com/GwtpT3rqVh— Quaz (@Quazisdead) April 15, 2026
“Oí, Frenchie! Have you finished workin’ on that virus to kill Homelandah…?”
“IDK butchurr, I’ve been thinking… maybe Vought aand Homerlandurr have a right to defend themselves…?” https://t.co/y3J7Ly0Sa9 pic.twitter.com/2kEhvDO3xk
— 𝔻𝕖𝕫✨🇵🇸 (@GirlWhHrLkTs) April 15, 2026
The discovery about Capone’s past has also led to fans realizing that, for all of the right-wing adjacent subjects that The Boys mocks, Israel is not among them.
The Boys writers when you ask them to make a joke about Israel pic.twitter.com/yJyPu8341o
— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) April 13, 2026
The Boys Season 5 premiered on Wednesday, April 8 and will conclude with its series finale on Wednesday, May 20.