![]() With handsome looks and a charming aura reminiscent of silver screen idol James Shigeta, Cho has long stood on the precipice of stardom. Its protagonist, Spike Spiegel, originally voiced by Steven Blum, is now played by John Cho in the live-action Netflix adaptation. Released in Japan in 1998 followed by an acclaimed English dub in 2001, Cowboy Bebop is a celebrated cult anime that blended a myriad of genres, including sci-fi and Westerns. It was doing something serious, taking the ethos of jazz and applying it to mixing narrative structures in a fun way.” “I was thrilled by its courageousness,” he says. The show’s many iconic moments, like the aforementioned chase above a galactic Tijuana, grabbed Cho and refused to let go. When I watched it, it became meaningful to me.” And he said, ‘Okay, what role?’ I said, ‘Spike Spiegel.’ He said, ‘Holy shit, you have to fucking do it.’ That was my entry, and starting to understand how meaningful it was to people. “When I said I got an offer to do Cowboy Bebop, there was a pregnant pause. A phone call to filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty, who worked with Cho on the acclaimed 2018 thriller Searching, indicated to him the gravity of the project. “ completely missed me,” Cho says, revealing he only heard about it when the opportunity to play Spike was within reach. One could argue it was worth it for Cho to miss Cowboy Bebop on cable. Phillip Faraone/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images John Cho, at the November 11 premiere of Cowboy Bebop in Los Angeles. In 2014, Cho starred in the short-lived cult comedy Selfie, the first American TV series to star an Asian male as the romantic lead. His now multifaceted resume encompasses everything from the raunchy Harold & Kumar films and escapist Star Trek trilogy to dramas like Better Luck Tomorrow and Columbus. When the anime began its original English-dubbed broadcast run on Adult Swim in 2001, he was just embarking on his career. Cowboy Bebop takes place in the future, where Earth is abandoned by humans who terraform the rest of the solar system, creating a new frontier for outlaws to run – and gun-for-hires called “cowboys” like Spike to catch them.įor Cho, starring in Cowboy Bebop is not quite a boyhood dream come true. The show stars Cho in the lead role of Spike Spiegel, a cool blue bounty hunter with a haunted past. On November 19, Netflix released its live-action adaptation of Shinichiro Watanabe’s beloved anime. “It was speaking to the heart of the scene and not what you were watching. “It was in contrast to this propulsive visual,” Cho raves to Inverse. ![]() It was in this moment, the climax to the first episode of the cult anime series Cowboy Bebop, that 49-year-old actor John Cho felt himself drawn by its gravitational pull. Two sleek spaceships whose silhouettes resemble darts with wings rip through the skies, and then outer space, while a melancholy saxophone solo straight from a noir film sets the mood. An asteroid colony that looks and feels like Tijuana, Mexico. A beautiful woman on the run with nowhere to go. ![]()
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