At New York Comic Con 2025, the dynamic trio behind Hazbin Hotel’s modern overlords, “The Vees,” gave us a glimpse into Season 2. Lilli Cooper (Velvette), Christian Borle (Vox), and Joel Perez (Valentino) sat down with Temple of Geek for a roundtable interview to discuss what fans can expect from everyone’s favorite demons. The actors teased a season packed with heightened antagonism and more chaotic screen time for The Vees in the upcoming second season of Hazbin Hotel, debuting on Prime Video on October 29.

The Vees Are Ready for War

The Vees will be the next “big bads” in Hazbin Hotel Season 2. Recent trailers and conversations surrounding the series show that Vox will lead his own uprising by using the success of Charlie Morningstar’s hotel, weaponizing it against Heaven.

Cooper, Borle, and Perez confirmed that the stylish group of villains will indeed have a significantly larger presence in Season 2. Vox actor Christian Borle said that The Vees “have more screen time, which I think just allows us to be more chaotic even more than before.”

The internal power struggle and high egos that define The Vees are integral to their relationship as a trio. The actors joked about the intensity in their characters’ dynamics, as personalities with ambitions as big as Valentino, Velvette, and Vox certainly cannot exist in harmony. The trio will butt heads amongst each other, with Perez, Borle, and Cooper even acknowledging their characters’ intense egos by coining the term “Veego.” They promised more “maniacal scheming” from the unholy alliance, which can only spell disaster for both Hazbin Hotel and the forces of Heaven and Hell.

The Unique Freedom of Animated Musical Theater

As veteran musical theater performers, the actors also discussed the contrast between the Broadway stage and the animated sound booth, highlighting the liberating creative process unique to voice acting in a musical series. Unlike live theater, voice actors don’t have to memorize lines or music, allowing them to read and focus purely on vocal performance.

Borle noted this freedom also provides the opportunity to do “a bunch of different takes,” allowing them to “play around with things, which you don’t get to do in a live Broadway show.” Borle further described the process of taking his “overacting into every little vocal take” to capture Vox’s essence.

Live Theater Versus Animation

Perez emphasized that on stage, a performer must craft a performance that is sustainable for eight shows a week. However, in animation, he can “put it all out there.” This creative freedom allows for choices—such as a lot of screaming—that would ruin one’s voice in a play. Perez also felt a freedom in escaping “type-casting” based on physical appearance, a common constraint in live theater. He explained that by playing a character like Valentino, a “pimp moth demon,” there is “so much more imagination” allowed. Furthermore, he’s “not having to conform to someone else’s idea of what this character should be and look like.”

The move to a globally distributed streaming series has been a massive shift from the limited scope of Broadway. Cooper highlighted the difference, noting that in theater, there is a “real limitation of audience” and a “run is a really limited amount of time.” Performances on Broadway are only seen by a relatively small audience when compared to a project like Hazbin Hotel. Being part of the series has allowed the actors to reach a global audience, a factor that has proven exciting for Cooper, who called it thrilling to see this “musical theater thing” thrive in the animated medium.

Hazbin Hotel Season 2 premieres on Prime Video on October 29, 2025. Season 1 is streaming now.