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The Boys: Jaz Sinclair on Marie/Season 5 Expectations, Gen V Season 3

Jaz Sinclair discusses if there's pressure on Marie heading into The Boys Season 5, if there's been any talk of Gen V Season 3, and more.

With the fifth season of Prime Video and Showrunner Eric Kripke's The Boys set to kick off next week, viewers already know that the final run will actually be a two-show affair. As we saw at the end of Gen V Season 2 (and in the Season 5 trailer for the main series), Marie (Jaz Sinclair) – a major force to be reckoned with, on par with Homelander (Antony Starr) – and others from Godolkin University have joined Annie's (Erin Moriarty) "Starlighter" resistance. Though she makes it clear she can't offer much about what goes down during the final season, Sinclair discusses the expectations and pressure on Marie heading into a Homelander showdown after the second season finale of the spinoff series. In addition, Sinclair shares what she knows about a potential third season of Gen V and what she would like to see from Marie moving forward. Here's a look at two key highlights from her The Hollywood Reporter interview:

Sinclair on Gen V Season 2 Finale and If It Put Pressure on Marie Heading Into "The Boys" Season 5: "Yeah, it probably does. I mean, they spend a lot of time talking about how powerful I am and what's possible, and the comparisons between me and Homelander. So yeah, I definitely see why people were speculating about me being on the show, and hopefully they'll be very thrilled with what we filmed."

Sinclair on Gen V Season 3 and What the Future Could Hold for Marie as a Character: "I have not. I don't know anything as far as what the future holds [on if she's heard any talk about Season 3]. Honestly, they do such a great job with my character. They start me somewhere and they end me somewhere else entirely. And so I would hope that continues, whatever kind of arc it is. In this second season, we got to see Marie make some bad choices and listen to the wrong people, and I always love that in a character. I never want to play characters who are perfect and two dimensional and not flawed. I really look for characters who fuck up, because we fuck up. I just would hope that they keep doing what they're doing, which is giving me so much good material to work with."

The Boys Showrunner Eric Kripke on "Gen V" Season 2 Finale Impact

Kripke on How Much of a Role Will "Gen V" Supes Play in "The Boys" Final Season: "They are playing an important part. Part of the fun of wrapping out season two that way is that we really get to set the table for season five, where there's now this active and growing resistance led by Starlight that A-Train is an important part of. They're really trying to take the fight back to Homelander and this sort of fascist government. By the same respect, we still work hard to try to maintain our balance that 'The Boys' is about 'The Boys,' and 'Gen V' is about 'Gen V.' The characters provide crucial assists, but it's still about 'The Boys,' and you can watch it without having watched 'Gen V' and vice versa. But watching both is still a much more fun experience."

Kripke Has "More 'Gen V' Story to Tell After Season 2: "We don't play it in season five of 'The Boys' that this is the end of 'Gen V.' We leave them open-ended because we actually have more 'Gen V' story to tell, and we'd love to tell it. It depends on the ratings and how many people end up tuning in. We have to make it so Amazon picks us up for another season."

Kripke on "Gen V" Season 2 & Godolkin's Fate Impacting Sister Sage (Susan Heyward) Personally: "Well, it all went pretty sideways on Sage [laughs]. The story about Sage that we really liked — and it was Michele Fazekas' notion — was, 'Why can't we give Sage a love story? Does she always have to be just such a calculated robot?' She genuinely loved the guy, and she had this plan. They were gonna move in together, and they were gonna break it to Homelander in a really careful way. They were going to be this power couple. She had this vision of a happy world with the other smartest person in the world, and he just went fucking nuts. She's begging him not to do this. She knew that his going down that path was going to be destructive for both of them. There's a reason she let Polarity out of that prison in the final episode. She knew that she had to ultimately protect her own hide. We play a bit of that. She comes into season five a little heartbroken. This guy really broke her heart. She was already a misanthrope, and it just makes her even more so.

Kripke on the "True Underground Resistance" Fighting Homelander: "He's got a lot of people in line who want to bitch slap him [laughs]. Obviously, Butcher is in the front of that line. But there's Stan Edgar, Marie, Annie, Huey. They're trying to mount a real push, but they're also outgunned, outmanned. You're in an entire country that has drunk Homelander's Kool-Aid. They're outmatched by the size of the hundreds of superheroes that are in every town across the country, who have been given authority over the police. So it really is a true underground resistance against a fascist government, which definitely has no comparison or parallel to anything going on anywhere in the world."

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