India, Sept. 17 -- One of the highlights of the first season of The Boys spinoff, Gen V, was the performance and screen presence of young actor Chance Perdomo. The 26-year-old played Andre Anderson, one of the show's protagonists and later a much-loved character. The actor's sudden death last year, before filming for season 2 began, came as a shock not just to his co-stars, but to fans as well. The show's creators, however, had another problem. They needed to fill an Andre-sized hole in their narrative for Gen V S2.

Ahead of the season 2 premiere, Sean Patrick Thomas, who plays Andre's superhero father Polarity, talks to HT about the void left by Chance and how the show goes about addressing it.

Chance Perdomo died in March 2024 in a mo...