‘Gen V’ Actor Derek Luh on Sharing Bigender Role With London Thor and Showing Two Sides of Jordan’s Romance With Marie
11.11.2023 - 00:57
/ variety.com
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of “Gen V, titled “Guardians of Godolkin,” now streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video. You’ve had a week since the “Gen V” Season 1 finale to theorize about where Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Andre (Chance Perdomo), Jordan (Derek Luh/London Thor) and Emma (Lizze Broadway) are at the end of “The Boys” spinoff’s cliffhanger episode. So, do you have a plausible explanation for the medical facility with no doors that the four supes are stuck in? It’s OK, we don’t either, and just like “Gen V” showrunner Michele Fazekas, star Luh is no help to us by keeping his lips sealed — even though he’s finally allowed to talk about the Amazon series after the SAG-AFTRA strike ended — and refusing to be the spoiler-ific Tom Holland of the Vought Cinematic Universe.
“You’re trying to get me in trouble. I see what you’re trying to do.
I will not spoil it. What I can tell you is tune into Season 2!” Luh told Variety in an interview Thursday, just a few days after the first look at “The Boys” Season 4 was released.
In creating the role of Godolkin University student Jordan, Luh split his acting duties with Thor, taking on the male and female forms, respectively, of the bigender supe. “We got so fortunate that me and London are so similar and so different, which I think is beautiful for Jordan, because what we really wanted to show was, in Jordan’s male form, I’m a little more reserved, a little less confident, less confrontational,” Luh said.
“And in Jordan’s female form, they have more swag and are a little more punk rock and a little more confrontational and have that dry humor. The way we describe it is that the female Jordan is the mask that we
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