Jaz Sinclair Photograph by David Amaya Jaz Sinclair is ready for the world to see her involvement with the fifth and final season of The Boys.
The 31-year-old actress joined the Amazon franchise in 2023 via its first extension, the superhero college saga Gen V, where she portrays Marie Moreau. As the lead of the series, much of the contents of its first and second installment have centered around Marie’s mammoth powers of hemokinesis, which came to a new turning point at the end of season two.
With the final season of The Boys (aka “the mothership,” says Sinclair) about to fly onto the streamer on Wednesday, Sinclair’s Marie will pop up, which was much speculated by the audience. But to what extent is still unknown, and was only recently confirmed with another trailer.
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“I definitely see why people were speculating about me being on the show,” Sinclair tells The Hollywood Reporter, continuing, “and hopefully they’ll be very thrilled with what we filmed.”
With Sinclair standing as a fixture of Gen V, she could be positioned as the main leading lady of the wider franchise as The Boys nears its end. In the interim, as Amazon has not yet renewed Gen V for a third season and viewers wait to watch Marie’s story unfold on the fifth season of the original superhero series, Sinclair is gearing up for her Boys debut and looking forward to what her career holds next.
Below, Sinclair teases her appearance on the highly anticipated fifth season of The Boys, what she’s heard about the future of Gen V, her plans for new music to release soon and which filmmakers she’d love to work with (on a movie, specifically) next.
What made you want to pursue acting?
I have always loved stories and storytelling more than anything, but I’ve also always been really fascinated with human behavior and tendencies and nuance and relationships. Ever since I was a kid, I always just watched people very closely. I think when I realized that acting was a thing, it just felt natural to try it on. Then I ended up loving it so much that I haven’t stopped.
You are also a musical artist. Which of the two art forms do you feel you can better express yourself, music or acting?
I feel like they show different aspects. Like in acting, you’re showing your eyes, the windows to your soul. You’re showing your internal world visually and emotionally. Whereas with music, I really get to say what I feel. I feel like I express me, Jasmine, more through music, but I still love the expression of acting. It’s just a totally different experience.
Last year, you teased that you have another album entitled Selkie on the way. What is the status of the album?
We’re making a short film out of it, actually. We did the first leg of shooting already. We have a couple more shoot days left to do, and it’s a visual album that follows Selkie folklore, and basically the journey of heartbreak and losing yourself and being away from home too long, and then coming home, and what that feels like. The music hasn’t come out yet because I want to release them in tandem. I am going to release a song next month that I’m really excited about. It’s called “Miss Pathetic,” and it’s about the sacred art of pining.
As your career continues to grow, do you see yourself continuing to expand more so with music or acting, or will you continue to do both?
Honestly, hopefully both. I really love to perform, and it’s just the most rewarding thing ever when somebody like comes up to me or sends me a message and is like, “Hey, this song helped get me through a hard time.” I just think it’s so rewarding to be able to impact people like that. And I know in my life when things are hard, music is where I turn. To be able to pay that forward a little bit feels really good.
You said you’re making a short film attached to the album. Are you involved in the filmmaking process?
Yes!
What has the behind the scenes looked like for that?
It’s been crazy. I’ve never done this before. I’m producing it. My friend Jewells Santos is an incredible director, and she and I wrote it together. Being behind the scenes is such a different experience, because you have to be the engine that keeps things moving in a different way. I’m really grateful to have to be getting this experience on the producing side of things.
You have starred in Gen V and also Chilling Adventures of Sabrina which are two dark, horror-adjacent projects. Do you see yourself continuing to stay in this horror realm, or is there another genre that you’d like to move into next with your career?
Well, what’s funny is, I don’t like horror at all. I like magic and I like heightened reality and dark things. Both shows kind of dipped their toe between humor and darkness, and I really like that sweet spot. I don’t think that I’ll only do horror forever, because I don’t like being covered in sticky blood. What I really want to do is a romance. I would really love to do a great romance or something in the fantasy world. I have so much trouble leaving magic, but I just love it so much. Something where I have, like, eleven ears in a field somewhere green would be really fun for me.
That is parallel to the superhero franchise that you are part of with Gen V and now The Boys. What is something about being an actor as a part of a superhero franchise that you think would surprise people?
My brain immediately went to all the stunt training we have to do. The amount of time and work and training and practice that it takes to put together one fight sequence. It was really cool and exciting and fun, but it’s a lot of work. And I think that when you watch [the show,] it all just looks easy and seamless. There’s just so many moving parts involved and pulleys and stunt coordination.
There was a lot of speculation that your character, Marie, and other characters from Gen V would pop up in this fifth, final season of The Boys, and that was confirmed when the most recent trailer dropped. What was your reaction when you learned you would be featured on the final season of The Boys?
Oh, my gosh. Well, I’m such a fan of The Boys, obviously. We call it the mothership. It’s such an excellent show, and I know a lot of those guys now at this point because we just cross paths, and they’re all so lovely. So when I found out that I was gonna get to be on the show, I just felt so grateful, truly, because it’s such an incredible feat, the show that they made, and to get to be a part of that is so cool. I just felt really lucky and very excited.
The most recent season of Gen V ended, once again, positioning Marie as the most powerful supe in this whole Boys universe — as somebody who could potentially go head to head and finally bring down Homelander. Do you think that the ending of season two of Gen V puts a lot of pressure on what the audience may expect to come from Marie’s time on The Boys season five?
Yeah, it probably does. I mean, they spend a lot of time talking about how powerful I am and what’s possible, and the comparisons between me and Homelander. So yeah, I definitely see why people were speculating about me being on the show, and hopefully they’ll be very thrilled with what we filmed.
What are you most looking forward to when the audience can finally see what Marie’s story will be on The Boys season five?
I’m excited to meet this fanbase, because there’s a lot of crossover between the fans of The Boys and Gen V, but it’s also just a different fan base. I’m really excited to see what they all think, and if they’re excited. I really am just happy to be a part of it.
If a fan of The Boys who has not seen Gen V is now being introduced to your character, what would you ask of them as they get introduced to Marie and learn how powerful she is as a character?
I would ask them to love her. No, she’s amazing. I just love getting to play Marie so much, and I feel like she does fit into The Boys universe. The shows have different tones, but they both have a certain amount of cynicism, a certain amount of hope, and Marie is no exception to that. I would hope that they would just welcome me right into the family.
Is there anything else that you can tease of your appearance on The Boys season five?
I can’t say anything. I wish I could. I can say that London [Thor] was there with me, Jordan [from Gen V,] who’s also in the trailer, and we had a lot of fun filming together. That’s about all I can say.
Season two of Gen V wrapped in October, but there’s been no word yet on a potential third season. Have you heard anything about the future of the show, and if it does get renewed, what hopes do you have for the rest of Marie’s story?
I have not. I don’t know anything as far as what the future holds. Honestly, they do such a great job with my character. They start me somewhere and they end me somewhere else entirely. And so I would hope that continues, whatever kind of arc it is. In this second season, we got to see Marie make some bad choices and listen to the wrong people, and I always love that in a character. I never want to play characters who are perfect and two dimensional and not flawed. I really look for characters who fuck up, because we fuck up. I just would hope that they keep doing what they’re doing, which is giving me so much good material to work with.
If you could have any superpower as yourself, not your character Marie, what would you choose?
Teleportation.
Do you have a dream filmmaker or creative that you would like to work with at some point?
Chloé Zhao. I watched Hamnet and was like, this is the most beautiful thing that I’ve ever seen. She’s just incredible. I’ve been watching so many interviews of her, and I just feel like I agree with her philosophy on being a soul and a body on the planet. I also am a big Paul Thomas Anderson fan, and then a lot of my heroes are comedy ladies. Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, that gang. I would just love to work with them.
Do you have a favorite TV show or movie right now?
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. I am so into it. I just started season four. I had just finished season three, like, two days ago, and I watched the reunion episode in all its chaotic glory. I just love it so much.
If you had to describe what makes Jaz Sinclair, Jaz Sinclair, what would you say?
A deep sensitivity. I’m just a very sensitive person, and I always have been, and I think it’s why I’ve been drawn to the arts. I think it’s why I’m able to empathize with people and express. But it also makes my human experience really cool because I’m sensitive in all of the ways; texturally, visually, auditorily, all of those things. That’s just what it’s like to be me. I’d say deeply sensitive.
What else is next for you? What is to come?
I would really love to do a movie next. I’ve just been reading a bunch of scripts and auditioning and trying to find something that I’m truly excited about. I feel like I’ve had the privilege in my career of playing really fucking cool characters. And when I booked Gen V, I was like, this is the coolest character in the world. And so just trying to keep that excitement through my career [by] choosing stuff that lights me up like that. Hopefully the next thing you see me in is a movie that I am obsessed with. That’d be cool.
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