Sometimes, even when you’re a Hollywood showrunner in charge of a massively successful TV series, you can still be in awe of the people with whom you get to work. Such is the case for Eric Kripke, showrunner of The Boys , who, in an interview with Polygon , admitted he was quite humbled to hear that legendary actor Samuel L. Jackson is a fan of the show.

Kripke learned this fun fact after reaching out to Jackson’s agent about a potential cameo in The Boys ‘ fifth and final season , which came together in episode seven, “The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother’s Milk.” Jackson voices a hammerhead shark named Xander, who’s pretty perturbed with the Deep for his part in destroying an oil pipeline that killed a whole bunch of fish.…