Executive Producer Rob Thomas has teased what fans would expect from the villain Mr. Boss in the second season of the series "iZombie."
In his interview with Entertainment Weekly, Thomas said that Mr. Boss is a gentle and a moodily efficient class of person. He added that Mr. Boss was viewed as a man who runs Seattle, which indicates that the series' villain would be very unique from the other villains in "iZombie" Season 2.
With a different background and nature, fans are set to see Mr. Boss as a villain apart from David Anders' Blaine DeBeers and Steven Webers' Vaughn Du Clark. DeBeers is a drug dealer-turned-zombie who caused the zombie outbreak with his experimental drug and is the main antagonist in the series. On the other hand, Du Clark is the president of Max Rager, an energy drink company under investigation.
For Thomas, Mr. Boss' personality just mirrors the latter's name as his sharpness and enthusiasm to go in rage made him Seattle's man. With those attributes, he could be a dynamic and impressive character, while being a friendly, but threatening villain. The executive produce did not elucidate Mr. Boss' relationship with Olivia "Liv" Moore, so this is yet to be revealed.
Eddie Jemison will play Mr. Boss in "iZombie" and he is set to debut the series' new villain in the middle of November, according to Comic Book. The actor is known for his roles in Steven Soderbergh's crime thriller "Ocean's Eleven," "Ocean's Thirteen," and crime drama "The Informant," and Tom Shadyac's comedy drama "Bruce Almighty."
Jemison is also set to appear in Adam Orton's drama film "The Summerland Project," Paul Osborne's thriller film "Cruel Hearts," Evald Johnson's sports drama "High and Outside," and Enrico Natale's comedy film "WTF: World Thumbwrestling Federation."
"iZombie" follows Seattle medical resident Moore as she becomes a zombie in a boat party. She has to consume brains from murder victims in order to survive. Upon eating the brains of the dead, Moore gains their personalities in the short term, which often gives her flashbacks on their death and clues about the murder. This leads her to work in partnership with the Seattle Police Department as a psychic consultant.
Aside from Jemison, Anders, and Weber, "iZombie" also stars Hiro Kanagawa as Lieutenant Suzuki, Bradley James as Lowell Tracy, Aleks Paunovic as Julien Dupont, Nick Purcha as Evan Moore, Molly Hagan as Eva Moore, Aly Michalka as Peyton Charles, Robert Buckley as Lilywhite, Rahul Kohli as Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti, Malcom Goodwin as Clive Babineaux, and Rose McIver as Moore.
"iZombie" Season 2 Episode 1, entitled "Grumpy Old Liv" aired on Oct. 6 while Episode 2, which is entitled "Zombie Bro," is slated to hit the small screen on Oct. 13.