Gen V‘s long-awaited return is almost right here, and forward of The Boys spinoff’s Season 2 debut, the celebrities and showrunner Michele Fazekas hit up TV Insider and TV Information Journal’s studio at San Diego Comedian-Con to tease what’s in retailer for this newest chapter of the college-set superhero collection.
As viewers will recall, Season 1 of the present, which focuses on a bunch of coming-of-age supes attending Godolkin College, noticed a number of of the scholars imprisoned at a mysterious location with their fates unsure. And Fazekas is clearing up any confusion as she units the stage for Season 2.
“Yeah, there’s a time leap,” she says. “And everybody begins in a totally totally different place, they usually’re not all collectively… They’re in a spot that we now have been instructed in Season 1 [is] the final place it is best to wish to go, which known as Elmira… A few of them find yourself there, however not all of them,” Fazekas teases.
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Amongst these imprisoned at Elmira based mostly on what followers noticed in Season 1 had been Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Jordan (London Thor / Derek Luh), Emma (Lizze Broadway), and Andre (the late Probability Perdomo). In the meantime, Cate (Maddie Phillips) and Sam (Asa Germann) had been bestowed the title Guardians of Godolkin, which was additional teased in Season 4 of The Boys.
As for the way that shakes up the group dynamics at college, Phillips admits, “It’s slightly tense. It’s slightly awkward. Yeah, it’s not completely peaceable.”
In the meantime, there’s a brand new Dean on the college as Hamish Linklater steps in to play Dean Cipher. When requested whether or not his character is as much as no good or not, Linklater jokes, “Properly, I don’t assume assuming issues about an individual may be very good.”
“Yeah, I play Dean Cipher. That title ought to encourage quite a lot of confidence in everybody,” Linklater continues. “He’s the brand new Dean, and quite a bit has modified at Godolkin College since Season 1. We’re now in Homelander’s America, proper? And he’s a Dean for that America,” the star warns.
On the subject of The Boys crossover, the trailer for Gen V Season 2 teased Starlight’s crossover with Marie, to which Sinclair notes, “It was so enjoyable working with Erin, she’s superior. I beloved it. We had a whole lot of enjoyable collectively.”
As for the mission Starlight’s recruiting Marie for, Sinclair shares, “Marie doesn’t know Starlight past what she’s seen [in the media], and Marie’s form of in a foul scenario… after which Starlight reveals up after which affords her this mission with all these items she hasn’t heard about, and she or he doesn’t actually know this lady. So I feel there’s a wholesome quantity of pleasure and flattery, but additionally skepticism of like, why ought to I belief you to ship me on this mission?”
Solely time will inform what that mission has in retailer, however together with these feedback from Fazekas, Phillips, Linklater, and Sinclair, see extra from them, alongside Luh and Thor within the full video interview above, and keep tuned for extra on Gen V Season 2 because the return approaches.
Gen V, Season 2 Premiere, Wednesday, September 17, Prime Video
—Reporting by Emily Aslanian