You dont treat it like a joke.
You treat it like you the underpinnings of real drama.
So, whats the plan?
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Now, theres this potential disease out there that can potentially kill superheroes.
As they were still shooting, I made my pitch to their room: can we bring Butcher?
MICHELE FAZEKAS:Yes!
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Michele, were you surprised by the reaction to the show?
FAZEKAS:Meeting people and hearing about people who were notBoysfans being fans ofGen V.
DEADLINE:Really?
Also, another surprise was meeting people outside of the quote unquote target demographic.
Season 1 ofGen Vhands off to Season 4 ofThe Boys.
I feel like Erics done a great job of sort of keeping the shows separate but connected.
So, what was the emotional hook you latched on to in creating and executingGen.
In a much more down-to-the-ground, psychological level of what are they struggling with.
So, eating disorders and cutting, issues with gender fluidity and pressures to succeed.
We always talk about inThe Boysthat we take an idea and then we supify it.
So, inGen Vwe were taking these very real emotional issues, rather than societal, and supifying them.
I think thats what created, in its own way, this really relatable show.
KRIPKE:Because I think people really connect emotionally to what these characters are going through.
That they all sort of learned you cant be solo, you cannot go through life.
Its a bit like how the studios negotiate with the unions, right?
They make a run at divide us.
DEADLINE:Nicely done.
FAZEKAS:(laughs) Thank you.
You know, Cates not crazy or just straight up evil or wrong.
She was f*cked over by humans consistently, so shes somewhat been broken.
She got broken by this system.
Shes past the point of no return.
You dont treat it like a joke.
You treat it like the underpinnings of real drama.
Understanding what the metaphor is.
And youre not making a joke about the metaphor.
This is what youre doing and be really clear on that.
KRIPKE:I think thats totally right.
In fact, we do just the opposite, we run headlong into it.
So no, you lean into it as the horrifically foreboding event that it is.
FAZEKAS:As Eric says, it comes from the story and the characters.
What do they want?
