Gen V won't recast Chance Perdomo for season 2
Perdomo died earlier this year in a motorcycle accident
The Boys spinoff Gen V is doing the right thing. In a statement posted to the series’ various social media pages today, Gen V’s producers announced that they would not be recasting Chance Perdomo’s role, after the 27-year-old actor died in a motorcycle accident earlier this year. “As we continue to navigate the tragic loss of Chance Perdomo, everyone at Gen V is determined to find the best way to pay respect to his memory,” the statement reads. “We won’t be recasting the role, because no one can replace Chance. Instead, we have been taking the time and space to recraft our season 2 storylines as we begin production in May. We will honor Chance and his legacy this season.”
In the Prime Video series—which follows a group of students at Godolkin University, a college for supes—Perdomo played a student named Andre, a metal-bender with a complicated relationship to his own legacy. The son of Polarity, one of the college’s most celebrated trustees, Andre ends up opposing his father and joining a group of other students in their attempts to uncover a massive conspiracy; Godolkin, it turned out, was being used as a secret test facility to unleash a supe-annihilating virus upon the world.
As Andre ended the season (spoiler alert!) locked in a cell with his friends Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Jordan (London Thor/Derek Luh), and Emma (Lizze Broadway), it’s unclear how the writers will re-direct this particular narrative. Whatever they decide will likely have massive implications for The Boys, however, as the spinoff was clearly meant to embellish and deepen the conflict between Homelander (Antony Starr) and Butcher (Karl Urban)—who both make cameos in Gen V’s finale—rather than exist in a completely separate bubble. In a newly released trailer for the OG show’s upcoming fourth season, both Gen V star Maddie Phillips and the anti-supe virus make an appearance.
Either way, this very much feels like the correct decision on behalf of the producers. Perdomo’s death was sudden and tragic, and ignoring it entirely would have felt pretty gross. Besides, they’re clearly still up to their old antics over on The Boys. What other show would have the guts to show a man getting ripped open by a chicken not just in their season, but upfront in the trailer? Get ready for another gory mess, folks.