Gen V‘s showrunner recently discussed how the show changed Andre Anderson’s story in Season 2 after actor Chance Perdomo’s death. The series, which is a spin-off of the popular Prime Video show The Boys, debuted its second season on September 17, 2025. The series’ cast includes Jaz Sinclair, Maddie Phillips, Lizze Broadway, Derek Luh, and Sean Patrick Thomas, among many others.
Michele Fazekas explains how Gen V Season 2 changed after Chance Perdomo’s Death
Gen V showrunner Michele Fazekas recently explained how writers had five chapters of Andre’s story planned before Perdomo’s death.
Fazekas also mentioned that they did not want to recast the actor, who passed away in March 2024. She stated, “I think we had set out at the beginning, because we sort of knew right out of the gate, we’re not just gonna recast him, and literally no one was saying recast. Studio, network, and everybody was kind of like, ‘No, of course not.'” (via Deadline)
Talking about the five episodes that they had already written, Fazekas said, “We wrote like five episodes of Andre’s story, that after we came back after Chance died, we’re like, ‘OK, all of that is obviously gone.’ And it is a weird thing to grieve a fictitious character, but we did. We definitely did actually talk about it, like, I think it’s OK to actually grieve something, cause you grow to love these characters as much as you love the people who are portraying them.”
Furthermore, she added that the team behind Gen V wanted to honor Perdomo, as losing him was “incredibly unimaginable.”
While speaking to EW in July, Fazekas touched upon the same subject and said, “When you watch the show, he exists throughout the entire season. It was, in many ways, about Andre and about Chance. And, yeah, I’m very proud of that actually.”
