00:00Does the idea of quote-unquote superhero fatigue concern you at all as you continue to look
00:07for exciting ways to tell stories in the genre?
00:09No, not at all.
00:12That's a spirit, champ.
00:19I actually, I question where the fatigue lies.
00:24And I think, without going digging into specifics of anything that has or hasn't been successful,
00:32I'm very curious to see what happens around any notion of superhero fatigue when James
00:37Gunn's superhero things come out because I think, because I think, I don't think the
00:43audience is fatigued.
00:44Let me put it that way.
00:45I think the audience is hungry.
00:48We were just down in Mexico doing a doing a CCXP down there.
00:52And they are hungry as hell for superhero content.
00:56So I think, I think it's easy to start saying it's a superhero fatigue or whatever.
01:03I think people just want fresh story and fresh ideas and fresh storytelling.
01:08And because of the nature of our show being an inverted universe, we're not bound, we're
01:15not slaves to the same masters.
01:17We're not bound to the same moral true north that standard superhero things are.
01:23So we have no boundaries.
01:25Right.
01:26And I am not and never have been invested in this world because you guys wear tights.
01:33You can be any characters and whatever you're doing, I'm on board.
01:36So yeah.
01:37Well, the funny thing is, I don't think any of the, I don't think any of the actors or
01:40anyone making the show treats it specifically like a superhero show because all the characters
01:47have to be a little more three-dimensional.
01:50And we can make them a little more three-dimensional because we don't always have to be good.
01:55We don't have to be always bad.
01:57We can be both.
01:58We can have really complicated mixed characters and I think that makes it much more enjoyable.
02:03With this team of writers, no, mostly because they follow the culture.
02:08It's not just about taking a collection of stories and kind of giving us what we're familiar
02:14with.
02:15We're using it as a lens to talk about what's going on, to talk about the lives that our
02:20audience members are going to go live after they watch the show.
02:24So that's not so much of your mind, especially because the Kripke and the writers, they've
02:30set up a world where it's a reflection back at React.
02:34Yeah.
02:35I mean, it's very, very surreal and it's always troubling that reality seems to represent
02:46our insane show more and more every year.
02:50But yeah, it's honestly, the last couple of years have been like that.
02:54We've been writing things and then just as the show is dropping, those things seem to
02:59be really big and in the news.
03:01And people always ask me like, well, how are you so prescient?
03:04How did you know that was coming?
03:06And my answer is always the same, which is like, look, that was shitty two years ago
03:11and it's shitty today and it's going to be shitty two years from now.
03:15Like they're all problems that are not going away anytime soon, unfortunately.
03:20And so it looks like we're being current, but we're really just talking about the same
03:24old shit that we were talking about two years ago.
03:26I can't believe this is fucking happening to me again.
03:30Karen, so favorite is a weird word, but what's your favorite way that Kimiko has died so
03:35far?
03:36Oh, that's good.
03:37Kimiko has died.
03:38Yeah.
03:39Ooh.
03:40You know, it's got to be the first one when she is fighting Black Noir and then there's
03:46a, you know, the crane with the camera is going from her dead body and we all think
03:53that she's dead.
03:54There's some epic music playing.
03:55Yes.
03:56That was amazing.
03:57That was so cool.
03:58And then she's like, boom.
03:59That was good.
04:00That was so good.
04:01That was so good.
04:02I mean, also as an actor, I was like, phew.
04:03Yeah, of course.
04:04Made it.
04:05Made it.
04:06I made it.
04:07Thank God.
04:08Colby, I'm curious, considering how many people get killed kind of willy nilly on this show,
04:15and I think we all sort of sit waiting for each person to go, Astrid's ability to survive
04:19and even thrive is kind of commendable.
04:22I want to know what you think her most valuable quality is that kind of keeps her safe-ish
04:28in the realm of the boys.
04:29Yeah.
04:30I mean, I think she is such a public figure for Vought that having her die, I think it
04:40wouldn't be great for their fiscal year, especially, you know, when Giancarlo Esposito, when Stan
04:48Edgar is pushed out, you know, there's some turmoil and like the board, there has to be
04:55meetings with the board and all that kind of stuff.
04:56And we have to make sure that Vought can survive because, you know, without Vought,
05:03the home of all of this power that Homelander wields would be gone.
05:07I mean, he can wield power in many different ways, but you know what I mean?
05:12Like I think, I also think like she's a great, you know, when Sage comes in and Ashley is
05:19basically a, I want to say a musketeer, but that's not the right word, a mascot.
05:26Not a musketeer.
05:28When Ashley is now a mascot for Vought, you know, I think Sage understands that that is
05:35actually quite important to have a playing leader, even if, even if Ashley wields no
05:44power.
05:45That doesn't sound good, Ashley.
05:46Oh yeah, no shit, Ashley.
05:47Sorry, Ashley.
05:48Claudia, I need to know because did the boys and Gen V feel like totally different projects
05:55to you?
05:56What was it like sort of portraying Newman in different ways in comparison to the way
05:59that she kind of interacted with different people?
06:02No, I definitely felt that it was still under the same umbrella, which is great because
06:08it's in the same universe.
06:11I mean, I did feel different though as Newman on Gen V because I'm interacting with these
06:17like essentially these college kids.
06:19So it has like a whole different kind of approach.
06:23I think Newman in general talks to different people in different ways, depending on who
06:28she's like up against.
06:30But it was really funny to come in as this kind of like faux maternal figure.
06:35Like that's the energy that I felt like I had.
06:38It felt easier to hide.
06:40That's what it was.
06:41It felt easier to hide because they're more trusting.
06:43Well, that's what, you know, the character dynamic.
06:47So yeah, it just felt easier to be duplicitous Newman on that show.
06:53I can't tell you guys how impressed I am at the fact that you're constantly reinventing
06:57this show and that the fact that like four seasons, five seasons into it, I'm still as
07:01invested in the characters as I am from-
07:04I know how the writers do it.
07:06It's a testament to the writing, like they're phenomenal.
07:10And Eric, how many people ask you for a part?
07:13How many people ask you to maybe participate?
07:17I mean, more and more now.
07:18I mean, in the early days, it was more like, what can we do to get away from you?
07:23Now I would say like heading into season five for the first time, we've gotten, you know,
07:30like Seth Rogen or his partner Evan Goldberg will shoot me an email and like we were just
07:36talking to, you know, huge star X and, you know, they want in and can we get them in?
07:45So, you know, and we're obviously I'm, I have very little shame.
07:50So of course, I'll find a part to get them in the show.
07:54You'll no longer be beloved celebrities, you will be wrathful gods.
08:01Show me a little wrath.
08:03Aaron, my favorite part of Starlight's story currently involves her wrestling with the
08:06idea of whether a hero needs a costume to have a greater effect.
08:11And as a performer, I'm wondering if you're also a little bit pleased to not have, not
08:15have to wear the hero costume as often as maybe some of your co-stars do.
08:18Oh yeah.
08:19The thing about it is like, there's never, I'm never going to lose that ultimately like
08:24unshakable feeling that putting on a cape is just like, there's something to that that's
08:29profound that you can't escape that.
08:31Like you thought, you know, I didn't dream of that as a child even, but like it's a cape
08:35and there's a part of you that's like, how did I even end up here?
08:38This is insane.
08:40So that novelty never wears off, but at the end of a very long day in a very tight suit
08:47like that, when you just want to like sit down and eat lunch without feeling like your
08:52organs are compressed.
08:54It's been a really like physically comfortable transition into the boys and into Annie exclusively
09:02also satisfying for her emotionally, but predominantly like just overall feels physically
09:09really good to wear sneakers on set.
09:11I never take any days for granted.
09:13Why don't I just get to wear some sneakers?
09:15It's the best.
09:16It's the best.
09:17But that suit is stunning.
09:18Like the reason why it was so impeccable looking is because it was tailor made for our bodies.
09:25So I'll never forget that experience and I'll always like love putting it on.
09:29I say that, but I want her to stick to her commitment of remaining Annie and not her.
09:35But I love it forever.
09:37I'll let you ladies know that I'm wearing athletic shorts underneath here.
09:41Look at you.
09:42I love them.
09:43You get it.
09:44I love it.
09:45You get it.
09:46This is insane and desperate, even for you.
09:47Well insanely desperate's where we are, don't you think, love?
09:50Let's go.
09:51Chop, chop, motherfuckers.
Comments