John Cho’s Hair Was Almost as Vital to Cowboy Bebop as Anything Else

Cowboy Bebop’s lived-in fusion of sci-fi city design, Western shantytowns, and interstellar mechanical design is so necessary to its tone and really feel that any live-action adaptation has to nail it to “get” Bebop. But as Netflix’s upcoming sequence apparently realized, of equal significance was guaranteeing John Cho went by way of some awkward hair phases to play Spike Spiegel.

You could recall Cho’s hair went viral on social media when Netflix first supplied a tiny glimpse of its Bebop adaptation. That was timed with the reveal that Turn A Gundam, Ghost within the Shell: Standalone Complex, and Bebop composer Yoko Kanno would return to attain the sequence. His much-appreciated mane bought consideration once more when a primary take a look at the present itself was unveiled final month, however talking with Entertainment Weekly just lately, Cho was requested in regards to the decision-making behind his look. He stated loads of work went into getting his locks good, and like all passionate actors, it required some hardship on his half. “I just really disliked the idea of a wig. Have you ever worn one? I’m just so aware of wigs,” Cho stated. “I said, ‘I really want it to be my own hair.’ It was a kind of a struggle to grow it out. It went through some really awkward phases.”

“I definitely watched him have to tie it back and try to figure out how to manage it before we got him back in the chair,” sequence showrunner André Nemec, conjuring photographs of a longer-haired Cho together with his hair tied again and in that iconic Spike Spiegel swimsuit, which is… actually a really good picture. But nonetheless, given how nicely it went down once we first bought to see the live-action Spike’s hair, it’s laborious to argue that the crew didn’t do an important job of emulating the character’s animated look. It’s not precisely the identical, after all. Especially contemplating with pure hair you simply can’t fairly nail the gravity-defying upwards angles seen within the anime.

But like all the things else we’ve seen of Netflix’s Bebop to this point, it’s in regards to the spirit of the unique relatively than a one-to-one emulation. One the present actually captured, if Cho’s bemused response is something to go by. “People were texting me, ‘FYI, your hair is trending on Twitter.’ I did think it was a joke,” the actor stated. “After multiple texts, I looked and literally it was trending on Twitter. I couldn’t believe it. I have no idea how to feel about it.” Hopefully, we’ll all be as delighted with the remainder of the sequence, when Cowboy Bebop hits Netflix on November 19.

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