John Cho Trained Like a Superhero for Cowboy Bebop, the Anime-Classic Remake

John Cho in Cowboy Bebop. Photo: Kirsty Griffin/Netflix John Cho had many hours to think about Spike Spiegel, the slick, droll, wild-haired intergalactic bounty-hunter in the upcoming Netflix live-action remake of the genre-bending neo-noir space-Western Japanese anime Cowboy Bebop. It began with the pilot script, of course, but then there was an unexpected hiatus when the entire production went on hold after he tore his ACL a couple of episodes in.

[Laughs.] Yes. The regimen was to become functionally athletic rather than show-horse athletic. But, yeah, I had to watch what I ate. I did have to take my shirt off in the first episode, which was really stressful.Yeah. I mean, you get really self-conscious. I guess I’d rather eat the sandwich at lunch, that’s all. In a lot of ways, Cowboy Bebop was my entrée to that world, but in a character that suited me — and a tone or a posture that felt close to my personality.

The biggest fear that I had was I was too old. I knew people were gonna have issues with my age. And I had to get over it. I’m not a person who says age is just a number or whatever. It was gonna be harder — physically. And I was gonna look different than a 25-year-old guy. At some point, the opportunity is “Yes or no — do you wanna do it?” And I did wanna do it. So I wasn’t gonna stop myself from doing it.First of all, I couldn’t have done it when I was 27.

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e_alexjung JohnTheCho John Cho put on the blue suit, grew out his hair, and trained relentlessly: “I was so scared of failure that I thought, ‘Well, yeah, I guess you have to do it then.’ So I took a chance. To clarify, the chance was me failing”

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