Claudia Doumit discusses her character’s shocking exit from ‘The Boys’ and the final season.

The Boys is one of the world’s most popular superhero programs, and its fourth season concluded on July 18, 2024. The first comments to the season were lackluster, but the series has picked up the pace and is now Certified Fresh, with excellent ratings.

The fourth season has been full with exciting and surprising moments, the most of which we have already explored in our weekly assessments of the show and its episodes. One of the characters we haven’t talked about much is Victoria Neuman, who had some of the most shocking events in past seasons but also played an important part in Season 4 before her shocking exit.

In this spoiler-filled post, we will cover Neumann’s exit as well as what Claudia Doumit, the actress who played Neumann in the series, thought about the stunning exit and how it would affect the series in the future.

As previously stated, this article will have a lot of spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the Season 4 finale and don’t want to know what happens, stop reading here since we will expose the tale. Specifically, in light of the current political turbulence in the United States, Victoria Neuman is brought before the lads and want to make a bargain with them that would ensure her and her daughter’s protection.

Butcher then enters and, using his new superpowers, practically slices Neuman in half, shocking everyone. This was one of the most savage and ruthless 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁ings in the series, revealing a lot about both Neuman and Butcher, but that’s another story.

Regardless, Victoria Neuman is absent from a scene that sparked outrage since it occurred during the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, despite the fact that the sequence was filmed in 2023.

Claudia Doumit, the actress who played Neuman in the series, was taken aback, and while her character will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the series’ most terrible deaths, she is also saddened since she is leaving the project she has enjoyed working on. Here’s what she said:

It was really shocking, but it was also really beautiful, and so well done. And most of all, it was a great death — that’s an honor in and of itself. I’m really happy to got a fun, twisted death, which is just such a great rite of passage for characters on this show. So I was really happy about it, which sounds like such an insane thing to say about being split in half.

I don’t know if I was in denial or hadn’t processed it yet, but it just felt like another day at work. I’m not new to being drenched in fake blood, or pretending that there’s some gruesome thing happening in front of me on the show. The only difference that day was that it was my fake blood and the gruesome thing happened to me.

Source: Variety

She then added that only when she went back to her trailer was she hit with the realization that “there was no next scene,” describing it as a “beautiful, bittersweet moment.” She also commented on the tragedy of the scene, as well as the fate of Neuman’s daughter, Zoe:

It is truly, deeply such a heartbreaking moment, because all Victoria wants for her daughter is for her to have a life that was nothing like hers growing up. And Zoe, ultimately, ends up in the same place as her mother. It’s really tragic that she’s got these powers that were loosed upon her, she doesn’t have a parent, and she’s most likely going to end up in Red River, the same place her mom was in. It’s a really tragic, full circle ending to that story.

I hope that there is some for Zoe at the end of the tunnel. She’s been through so much and she’s just got braces, so life hard enough for her as a teenager. But I don’t know what will happen there. God only knows what they’re going to do. But Zoe is family to Stan Edgar, essentially. So I would hope that he is there for her in some sense.

Source: Variety

As for Neuman’s potential appearance in Season 5, she said that she is hoping that a “Ghost Neuman” version might appear – and there is a possibility of that actually happening, but more on that later – but she ultimately concluded:

t’s actually really funny, because from the moment I joined this show, I knew that she was going to die — not because I knew for sure, but I knew what show I was coming on to. I honestly thought it would be sooner. I would go into every season anticipating that Neuman would die. So I was pleasantly surprised, and I feel lucky, that I got to walk around in Neuman’s pantsuits and Louboutins for as long as I did. She’s a wildly fascinating, and just endlessly fun character to play with.

Source: Variety