Showrunner Michele Fazekas and star Sean Patrick Thomas talk about honoring Perdomo and making Polarity &34;the embodiment of grieving Chance.&34; How Gen V sea

Showrunner Michele Fazekas and star Sean Patrick Thomas talk about honoring Perdomo and making Polarity "the embodiment of grieving Chance."

How Gen V season 2 handles Chance Perdomo's death in reworked story

Showrunner Michele Fazekas and star Sean Patrick Thomas talk about honoring Perdomo and making Polarity "the embodiment of grieving Chance."

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Chance Perdomo and Sean Patrick Thomas on 'Gen V' season 1. Credit:

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- Showrunner Michele Fazekas and actor Sean Patrick Thomas talk about how the show honors Chance Perdomo after his death in 2024.

- Fazekas saw Thomas' Polarity as "the embodiment of grieving Chance."

- Thomas says he didn't want to let Perdomo down and felt a personal responsibility to make sure his presence was felt on the show.

**This article contains spoilers from *Gen V* season 2, episodes 1-3. **

After the tragic, untimely death of one of their stars, the creators of *Gen V* had to make a decision.

The writers had already broken five out of the eight episodes, and the crew was gearing up to start production by March 2024 when Chance Perdomo died from a motorcycle accident at the age of 27. His character, Andre Anderson, was a big part of the plot line they planned to film.

"We had a whole story broken for Andre," showrunner Michele Fazekas shares with **. "It was an Andre, Sam [Asa Germann] story. So that was lost."

They were left with two potential avenues: recast the role or have Andre die in the context of the story. "It wasn't even a choice," Fazekas says. "No one at all was advocating recast. So that was quite easy."

Chance Perdomo as Andre Anderson on 'Gen V' season 1.

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As announced back in May of last year, the team behind *The Boys* spinoff set out to "recraft" their season 2 storylines. The results of that effort were revealed with Wednesday's premiere of the first three episodes on Amazon's Prime Video.

After the bloodbath on the Godolkin campus in the season 2 finale, Andre, Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Jordan (played by both London Thor and Derek Luh), and Emma (Lizze Broadway) were carted off to Elmira Adult Rehabilitation Center, which is essentially a supe prison. They tried multiple times to escape this fortress, with one successful attempt by Marie, who went on the run solo.

One of the failed attempts involved the death of Andre. At some point off camera, the group concocted a plan to flee, but when the time came, they were faced with an unexpected hitch: a thick, metal door blocking their escape. The magnetic-manipulating supe used all his power to try to break it down, and even when his friends could see him dying before their eyes from the strain of it, he felt compelled to sacrifice himself if it meant they could be free.

Fazekas clarifies the team didn't have to completely rewrite the scripts. They already had the Elmira element mapped out, as well as the Project Odessa storyline (the secret Godolkin program Erin Moriarty's Starlight tasks Marie with uncovering). "We just [had] to figure out a way Andre dies that doesn't feel exploitative or cheesy or any way that would be icky," she says.

Sean Patrick Thomas a Polarity on 'Gen V' season 2.

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A big part of that rework involved Sean Patrick Thomas as Polarity, Andre's father. With his son dead, the original master of magnetism takes a teaching job at God U, aiding Marie's resistance efforts as he works to figure out exactly what happened with Andre.

For Fazekas, "He really was the embodiment of grieving Andre and grieving Chance because he goes on a, basically, revenge story."

"I'm very, very glad that she never said that exact phrase to me 'cause otherwise I would've felt a tremendous amount of pressure to deliver whatever that means," Thomas tells EW in a separate interview. "But I think that she gave me the avenues and the gifts and the time to do that with what she and the writing staff wrote. I felt a responsibility, just personally, to Chance to really make sure that his absence was felt. The fact that Chance is not here is just so unthinkable and so impossible to swallow. Our personal relationship, to me, was so unique that I just didn't wanna let him down."

In many moments throughout the season, not just in these first few episodes, the writers interspersed emotional scenes in which characters, like Polarity, Marie, and Jordan, sit down and share fond memories of Andre. "As much as you're grieving the person, you're grieving Andre, because we love that character," Fazekas remarks.

Polarity (Sean Patrick Thomas) and Andre (Chance Perdomo) on 'Gen V' season 1.

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In her experience, the rewriting process felt commonplace. Fazekas notes how she's been involved in various shows before where, just days before production would begin, they would have to throw out the script and write something new from scratch. It was the emotional work of talking about Perdomo that became the difficulty.

"When we came back after Chance died, I tried to be as gentle as possible. They're like, 'Let's just talk about what we're feeling and not,'" she says of the writers.

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When thinking about those scenes in which he, as Polarity, grieves the loss of Andre, Thomas tries to avoid using the clichéd term "surreal" to describe that experience as an actor who was also grieving the loss of a colleague.

"I could look at Lizze Broadway and know what she was really thinking and really feeling about Chance, and that fed whatever came out of me," he recalls. "I'd like to think it was the same way in reverse, that whatever was coming out of me about Chance fed her. Even in my scenes with Hamish [Linklater] who plays Cipher, the sense of the waste of a potential, of a future, I felt that. What Chance could have been, what Andre could have been really felt very powerful to me. The incalculable loss of that really hit me hard during those scenes."

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