DOOM PATROL - DIANE GUERRERO and JOIVAN WADE INTERVIEW

The cast of DOOM PATROL

DC Comics’ unlikely group of Superheroes is back for Season 2 of DOOM PATROL on HBOMAX.

DC’s strangest group of heroes — Cliff Steele aka Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Larry Trainor aka Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Rita Farr aka Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), Jane aka Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero) and Victor Stone aka Cyborg (Joivan Wade) — are back again to save the world. That is, if they can find a way to grow up…both figuratively and literally. Following the defeat of Mr. Nobody, the members of the Doom Patrol now find themselves mini-sized and stranded on Cliff’s toy race car track. Here they begin to deal with their feelings of betrayal by Niles Caulder aka The Chief (Timothy Dalton), while confronting their own personal baggage. And as each member faces the challenge of growing beyond their own past traumatic experiences, they must come together to embrace and protect the newest member of the family: Dorothy Spinner (Abigail Shapiro), Niles’ daughter, whose powers remain a mysterious but real threat to bringing on the end of the world.

Doom Patrol season two premieres June 25 on HBO Max and DC Universe. The season premiere will feature the first 3 episodes.

Diane Guerrero is an actress, activist and author widely-known for her role as Maritza Ramos on the award-winning, Emmy® and Golden Globe-nominated series Orange is the New Black (for which she received three Screen Actors Guild awards). Her credits also include Lina in The CW's breakout hit Jane The Virgin and a series regular on the comedy Superior Donuts. Guerrero’s memoir, In the Country We Love, published by Henry Holt, details her life as a citizen daughter of undocumented parents, and her years-long struggle to deal with the consequences of the broken immigration system. Her middle grade follow-up book, My Family Divided, was release by MacMillan in 2018.

Joivan Wade trained at the BRIT School and was a member of The National Youth Theatre. He rose to prominence in the comedy trio Mandem on the Wall, breaking out in his first series regular role in the hit E4 show Youngers. Film credits include lead roles in The Weekend Movie for Netflix and the Universal feature The First Purge, which recently became the highest grossing of the Purge franchise from Blumhouse. He’ll next be seen in the BBC Films feature Vs. from director Ed Lilly and producer Bennett McGhee. Wade has worked alongside comedy giants David Walliams, Catherine Tate and Matt Lucas on BBC series Big School, Walliams & Friend and Pompidou. He also starred with the legendary comedian Sir Lenny Henry in his TV adaption and theatre performance of Rudy’s Rare Records.

I spoke with Diane and Jovian about the success of the show and what we can expect in Season 2.