"The tone is a little bit darker": Jaz Sinclair teases what we can expect from Gen V Season 2

Gen V Season 2 actress Jaz Sinclair hyped up the upcoming series at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival.

She was at the event to collect the Golden Nymph award for Most Promising Talent. At the same event, the actress went on to discuss the second season of fan-favorite Prime Video series, Gen V, which is the spin-off of the acclaimed superhero show from the same streaming platform, The Boys.

When Deadline asked Sinclair about what viewers can expect from Gen V Season 2, the actress who plays Marie Moreau, responded:

“The tone is a little bit darker, at least at the start.”

This is not surprising, because even Gen V Season 1 was comparatively lighter than The Boys, but each episode of the series slowly built up a darker mystery, setting the stage for the fourth season of the parent show. Now, Gen V Season 2 is expected to do the same by setting up the fifth and final season of The Boys.

Jaz Sinclair discusses how Marie Moreau evolved in Gen V Season 2:

At the same event, Jaz Sinclair gave an interview to another outlet. With Variety, the actress discussed how her character evolved before the first episode of Gen V Season 2:

“Thinking about Marie in Season 1 versus Marie in Season 2, she does change. She does evolve. We’ll get more moments of lightness with her, for sure, but the circumstances are still intense.”

The Gen V Season 2 actress further said:

“I don’t know if ‘happy’ is the right word, but in Season 1, Marie didn’t quite know how to be normal. She didn’t know how to be a teenager, because her experience was so extreme. Over the course of that season, and now in Season 2, she knows how to have friends, how to feel love – and how to tell jokes.”

Marie Moreau's character arc in season 1 focused on her being an outsider in Godolkin University (God U), a university meant for super-powered college-age students. While she manages to slowly find her footing, the first season ends with her, Jordan Li, Andre Anderson, and Emma Meyer/Little Cricket being imprisoned in a mysterious location as they are falsely blamed for the violence on the campus.

However, as the trailer suggests, Marie, Jordan, and Emma are released by Cate Dunlap, who is one of the supes who instigated the violence in the season 1 finale. It seems Andre hasn't been recast after actor Chance Perdomo's unfortunate passing last year. The trailer seems to hint that the character might have passed when he was held captive.

Sinclair says that Gen V's protagonists suffer from shame:

In the same Variety interview, Sinclair discussed what drew her to Gen V: human and flawed characters, making them more relatable, in comparison to other mainstream superhero universes like Marvel and DC. The actress's exact words were:

“They are always dealing with something and sometimes, they’re dealing with it badly. It makes it relatable. Watching superheroes who are perfect would be less interesting to watch. But watching a normal human trying to grapple with having superpowers? That’s why this show works so well.”

Appreciating the realism of the script, she said:

“We’re rooting it in reality; rooting it in love, struggle, in ‘good versus evil’ and insecurity. I definitely work from the ground up in regard to Marie. I focus on her relationships and her pain, and then I add the superhero element on top of it. She feels a lot of shame. Emma [Meyer, played by Lizze Broadway] also feels a lot of shame, and so does Jordan. They have parts of themselves they hide away and then learn how to love each other.”

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Are you excited for the second season? Gen V Season 2 will begin streaming on Prime Video from September 17, 2025.

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