‘Gen V’ Stars Tease a Time Leap, ‘The Boys’ Workforce Up, a Dean for Homelander’s America and Extra for Season 2 at SDCC (Unique)

Gen V‘s long-awaited return is almost right here, and forward of The Boys spinoff’s Season 2 debut, the celebs 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 sequence.

As viewers will recall, Season 1 of the present, which focuses on a gaggle 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 soar,” she says. “And everybody begins in a totally completely different place, they usually’re not all collectively… They’re in a spot that now we have been informed in Season 1 [is] the final place you must need to go, which is named Elmira… A few of them find yourself there, however not all of them,” Fazekas teases.

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 Likelihood 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 a way that shakes up the group dynamics in school, Phillips admits, “It’s just a little tense. It’s just a little 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, “Nicely, I don’t suppose assuming issues about an individual may be very good.”

“Yeah, I play Dean Cipher. That title ought to encourage an excessive amount of confidence in everybody,” Linklater continues. “He’s the brand new Dean, and lots 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.

In the case 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 number 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 type of in a nasty state of affairs… after which Starlight reveals up after which affords her this mission with all these items she hasn’t heard about, and he or she 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