How ‘Gen V’ Showrunners Keep Outrageous Stories Grounded in Reality
15.11.2023 - 19:57
/ variety.com
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor There is no task too tough for “Gen V’s” makeup department head Colin Penman. Across three seasons of Prime Video’s and Sony Pictures Television’s “The Boys,” and now its spinoff, “Gen V,” Penman has been assigned to creating an exploding penis, a five-foot-tall penis and, most recently, puppets who get into a bloody massacre. The show’s executive producers Eric Kripke and Michele Fazekas wanted to take a fight sequence idea to the next level for “Gen V.” Penman happened to have puppet-making skills on his resume.
Fazekas explained the genesis behind the idea, “We had talked about real Sam [Asa Germann], and his arc is sort of struggling with mental illness. We said, ‘If he’s under stress and hallucinating, what is “The Boys” world’s version of a hallucination?'” In keeping with the tone of “The Boys,” no matter how far they pushed the story ideas, everything needed to be grounded in reality. Fazekas explained, “You can’t do something outrageous just for the sake of it being outrageous.
It has to come out of the story. It has to come out of the characters.” In the episode, Sam, who is on the run from Shetty’s Woods guards, finds himself alone. He has a mental break and begins to see the intruders as puppets.
The puppet inspiration came from growing up on TV shows like “Sesame Street.” “We loved the idea of shooting and editing a fight sequence exactly like a real fight sequence, but the only weird thing about it is that some of the people fighting are puppets,” Fazekas said. In order to make the puppets, Penman collaborated with the costume department, which made miniature versions of the superhero outfits. It was all about the details.
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