Gen V Showrunner Reveals 5 Episodes Were Already Written Before Chance Perdomo's Death: Season 2 Is About Him

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Perdomo, who played Andre Anderson on Gen V, tragically died on March 29, 2024, in a motorcycle accident before the second season was about to start filming. The new season premiered on September 17, and the show is dedicated to the actor. But the tributes don't end there. Co-showrunner Michele Fazekas recently revealed in an interview that much of the second season deals with Andre's death and how it affects the other characters.

How Gen V Season 2 honours and addresses Chance Perdomo's death

Speaking to Deadline about how the show pays tribute to Chance and his character Andre, Fazekas said, "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.” So, we knew that we had to treat this like this character, as much as people have lost the real Chance, our people have lost Andre. And what does that look like in a world where it’s superheroes in college and a lot of ridiculous gore and funny? And so we just sort of made it like we wanted the season to certainly honor him, and then at the end, we realized the season is about him, everything, and all of the drive comes from him.

He added, "So, by the end, I was very sort of proud of that, and I just remember being in the writers’ room and talking about Andre—cause we had broken Andre’s story. 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 talked 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."

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More about Gen V Season 2

Stars Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, London Thor, Derek Luh and Asa Germann all return for the second season. The official synopsis for the Amazon Prime Video series states: As the rest of America adjusts to Homelander’s iron fist, back at Godolkin University, the mysterious new Dean preaches a curriculum that promises to make students more powerful than ever. Cate and Sam are celebrated heroes, while Marie, Jordan, and Emma reluctantly return to college, burdened by months of trauma and loss. But parties and classes are hard to care about with war brewing between Humans and Supes, both on and off campus. The gang learns of a secret program that goes back to the founding of Godolkin University that may have larger implications than they realize. And, somehow, Marie is a part of it.”