'Gen V' 101: 'The Boys' Get Schooled in New Spinoff

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Sean Patrick Thomas, Chance Perdomo, Jaz Sinclair, Shelley Conn, Derek Luh, London Thor, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Maddie Phillips, Asa Germann, and Lizze Broadway chat with EW about their new 'The Boys' spinoff 'Gen V'.

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00:00 I asked him, I was like, "How do you get the blood off?"
00:02 He's like, "Shaving cream and Dawn soap
00:04 "would be your best friend."
00:06 (gentle music)
00:08 - The Dalkin University is an elite training,
00:13 educational institution for superheroes in training.
00:18 So for any young superheroes that wanna reach the height
00:22 of their potential in terms of marketing and franchising
00:25 and all that stuff, that's what the Dalkin University is.
00:27 It's kind of like the Yale or the Harvard
00:30 of superhero training.
00:32 Where I come in is I play Polarity
00:34 and I'm on the board of trustees of the Dalkin University.
00:36 And my son is one of the leading students
00:39 at the Dalkin University
00:40 and I'm trying to help elevate his stature
00:42 and get his franchise up to the point
00:44 where he can maybe join the seven.
00:46 - Polarity is this big time superhero
00:49 who didn't quite make it to the seven,
00:50 but he's up there, he's up there
00:52 and his name holds prestige both in entertainment
00:55 and in the practical superhero aspect.
00:58 And Andre, he doesn't want anything to do with that.
01:00 Like he kind of, well he does, but he doesn't.
01:02 He's in his father's shadow, but he wants to step out of it.
01:05 He doesn't wanna use his name,
01:07 but he kind of has to use his name.
01:08 And he's quite a slacker.
01:10 He's a charmer, he's a slacker
01:12 and he doesn't want any responsibility whatsoever.
01:15 - Being a hero, it's not about glory.
01:21 It's about sacrifice.
01:24 (dramatic music)
01:27 - Welcome to Goodalkin University.
01:29 We've trained the best and brightest young heroes since 1965.
01:34 Goodalkin is a safe space for you to thrive.
01:39 - I think Marie ultimately, you know,
01:41 she has moments where she has to decide,
01:43 do I want to look like a hero or do I want to be a hero?
01:46 And she's chosen following the rules in moments
01:51 that have gotten her into some trouble with her friends.
01:53 But I think that ultimately she's choosing
01:55 to be a real hero and to do the right thing,
01:57 even if it is at her own expense.
01:59 Even though she's wanted more than anything
02:02 forever to be in the seven.
02:04 - The thing that makes this campus
02:07 kind of different from your regular one
02:09 is the fact that they're superheroes.
02:11 And the nature of their superpowers
02:13 means that it's a pretty volatile situation.
02:16 It's a little bit like a superhuman zoo
02:19 because you have a constraint of this kind of
02:22 academic system versus these kind of soft souls
02:26 trying to find themselves.
02:27 - The ranking system factors in all of these qualifications
02:31 for all of the students and chooses like a top 10.
02:34 And essentially the top 10 students
02:36 are the ones that are positioned to represent a city
02:39 or hopefully be in the seven.
02:41 So it's supposed to be based off of your skills
02:44 and also your social media.
02:45 They say it's like a fair system,
02:47 but like a lot of things in Vought,
02:49 it's absolutely not because then you get kind of famous
02:52 and all of a sudden you're number one.
02:53 - You could be the first top ranked freshman in history.
02:56 - I think you meant to say first black woman in the seven.
02:59 ♪ I do what I wanna do ♪
03:01 - You have a target on your back.
03:03 ♪ I go where I go ♪
03:04 - A few of us are going off campus.
03:06 Let's have a good time.
03:07 ♪ I'm sexy, I'm free and I feel ♪
03:12 - Vought, I'm still drunk from last night.
03:15 - Perfect, just take a sip,
03:16 say Turbo Rush cures hangovers.
03:17 - I wouldn't pour this on my (beep)
03:19 if it cured cancer.
03:20 - Gen V captures the debauchery and crazy student life.
03:24 The play on Gen V is obviously Gen Z
03:27 and it's like we are the Gen Z in this world.
03:30 They've done such a good job of just showing
03:32 how absolutely insane it is to be a college student
03:35 at any time, but especially now
03:37 because everything is recorded.
03:39 Everything can go on social media.
03:40 I think it's even more crazy to do something crazy now
03:43 than it was 10 years ago.
03:45 - It's been really easy sharing a character
03:47 with Derek.
03:48 When we first met, it was kind of like
03:51 we both had similar thoughts.
03:53 We both were open to talking about the character
03:56 and open to each other's opinions.
03:57 And I think with that, we just built this character
04:00 from the ground up.
04:01 We managed to just take on each other's personalities
04:03 sometimes.
04:04 It's been great having a partner like that.
04:07 - We get to first meet Luke, Golden Boy.
04:10 He is top of the rankings.
04:11 He is number one.
04:12 He is the strongest.
04:13 He's the best.
04:14 He's the most capable to be part of the seven.
04:16 And that's when we find out that Brink
04:19 has actually been grooming him
04:20 and has finally decided that he's ready for the seven,
04:23 that he made it.
04:24 - My character is Kate Dunlap.
04:28 And she has the power of coercion via touch.
04:32 That's how I've been describing it.
04:34 She touches you and she can make you do whatever she wants.
04:37 She is very fun loving.
04:39 She likes to have a good time.
04:40 She's kind of wild.
04:41 And she's very, very observant,
04:44 which has been really fun to play.
04:46 She sees everything.
04:48 And there's a lot of mystery that goes with that.
04:51 She doesn't always take the route
04:53 that a lot of the other characters wanna take,
04:56 but that doesn't mean that her intentions aren't also good.
04:59 - In "The Boys," we're seeing a bunch of superheroes
05:02 where they wound up.
05:05 We see Homelander as the leader of the seven.
05:07 We follow people like the Deep and A-Train and Starlight
05:11 as they kind of navigate their journey
05:13 through this industry, this business,
05:15 the world that they've created.
05:17 (water splashes)
05:20 - I can't stop.
05:22 I can't stop.
05:23 I can't stop.
05:24 I can't stop.
05:24 I can't stop.
05:25 (water splashes)
05:28 - I asked him, I was like, "How do you get the blood off?"
05:30 He's like, "Shaving cream and Dawn soap
05:33 will be your best friend."
05:35 And I was like, "Okay, so now it's for real.
05:38 Shaving cream's the only thing that gets it off."
05:40 - In this show, we aren't only following the Supes
05:44 in terms of their journey about becoming Supes.
05:46 We're following their journey
05:48 in terms of how they're becoming people
05:51 and how they're growing up and evolving and learning
05:54 and creating relationships and destroying relationships
05:57 and really at a core,
05:58 like figuring out what it means to be a hero.
06:01 And the thing that I think I love so much about our show
06:03 is that we don't actually really answer that question.
06:05 (electronic music)
06:08 [BLANK_AUDIO]