Fans of The Boys might recognize a very familiar voice on the latest season.

Creator and showrunner Eric Kripke explained how Tilda Swinton’s voice cameo as The Deep’s (Chace Crawford) octopus love interest Ambrosius came to be on season 4 of the Prime Video series.

“For Tilda, we didn’t know her — it was just that once we realized that Ambrosius was going to be a character this year, we in the writers’ room all said, ‘We need the classiest, Oscar-winningest, British actress we can get our hands on,'” he told Variety.

“And that’s a really short list. And Dame Judi Dench was unavailable,” Kripke joked.

To Swinton’s “everlasting credit,” Kripke said, “she didn’t know any of us, but she was like, ‘That sounds hilarious, I’m in,’ and she did it.

“She was in Scotland, I think, at the time, but came into a recording booth there,...