Published May 7, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Nathan Mitchell talks about playing a (mostly) silent character for five seasons Black Noir’s actor got to choose when he would reveal his face on The Boys Image: Jasper Savage/Prime Video When Nathan Mitchell was offered the role of the superhero Black Noir on The Boys , he was warned that he would never get to speak or show his face. “I just jumped into that wholeheartedly,” Mitchell tells Polygon. “For me, the biggest question was: Can I still express myself? Can I still tell a story through his body movements, through the way he tilts and moves his head, through the way he walks? As long as they were going to give me space to do that, I felt really good about it.” Ever since then, Mitchell has been a pivotal, if mostly silent, member of The Seven, the not-so-secretly evil superhero team at the heart of The Boys . As the Prime Video series comes to a close, we caught up with the Noir actor over Zoom to talk about his journey across five seasons. [ Ed.…