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GEN V’S JAZ SINCLAIR
Having superpowers is something many kids dream about, but for the teens of Gen V, Prime Video’s spinoff of The Boys, it’s the stuff of nightmares.
Like its parent series, Gen V is a biting satire of modern life, this time through the eyes of younger folk and, like The Boys, it plunges viewers head-first into gushing geysers of bodily fluids and ultra-violence.
The series is set at Godolkin University, a campus run by the sinister Vought Corporation, dedicated to training superheroes.
An elite few will become detectives and crimefighters and the rest will learn to use their superpowers to become actors and entertainers. Like their counterparts in The Boys, this is a world where superheroes are not only real, but also corporate products and celebrities.
“In the Gen V world, the kids are still idealistic. They’re not fully formed into either a hero or a villain,” star JAZ SINCLAIR says.
She plays the lead character, Marie Moreau, a freshman who can manipulate and control blood, an ability she discovers when she has her first period.
Jaz, who recently starred in Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, explains that in Gen V the older generation of heroes are corrupting the idealism of the younger heroes.
“For me that was a really interesting topic and a really interesting time in all of their lives because I feel like it gives us a chance to know where everybody came from and to watch the unfolding of them becoming the kind of hero that they’re gonna become.” The series, she tells collider.com, “is fascinating because it humanises everybody. It humanises the people making the good choices, and it humanises the people making the bad choices, and I just find that interesting. It leaves a lot of room for potential heartbreak, friendships and stuff that wouldn’t be possible if [the characters] were all fully fledged adults”.