Welcome to the World of Netflix's Cowboy Bebop! Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Cowboy Bebop | Behind the Scenes | Netflix ()Ĭho, Pineda, and Shakir are joined by Alex Hassell ( The Red Sea Diving Resort Suburbicon), Elena Satine ( Strange Angel), Geoff Stults ( Little Fires Everywhere, 12 Strong), Tamara Tunie ( Black Earth Rising, Dietland), Mason Alexander Park ( Hedwig and the Angry Inch National Broadway Tour), Rachel House ( Thor Ragnarok, Soul), Ann Truong ( Strikeback!, Hard Target 2), and Hoa Xuanda ( Ronny Chieng: International Student, Top of the Lake) on the streaming service's live-action series. It went through some really awkward phases." Nemec confirmed that last sentiment, laughing as he added, "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." "I said, 'I really want it to be my own hair.' It was a kind of a struggle to grow it out. Have you ever worn one? I'm just so aware of wigs," Cho explained. ![]() Just So There's No Confusion? Spike's Hair Was Never Going to Be a Wig: "I just really disliked the idea of a wig. You're in a scene, you're in episode 5, and you just have to play the circumstance and the character as you've built it." At some point, you have to play the scenes that are written. I think it would have been disappointing if we dis," he explained.Ĭho Did Some Deep Development with His Spike: Revealing that he developed Spike's walk after numerous episode screenings, Cho explained that adapting Spike from page to screen because "in terms of animation style, I found that there was a limit to where I could go with how the character was supposed to behave on a moment-to-moment basis." That gave Cho the opportunity to flesh out Spike more based on how he believed the character would react in various situations, with the actor explaining, "I had to blend in my own thoughts and ultimately leaned mostly on our scripts. ![]() We don't need to serve the exact same meal. I think to just redo the anime will leave an audience hungry for something that they already saw. I think that the poetic nature of the anime absolutely allowed for us to mine the archetypal nature of the characters and dig out deeper histories that we wanted to explore - and answer some of the questions that the anime leaves you with. "We got under the skin of who the live-action characters were going to be. I believe we've done a really nice job of not violating the canon in any direction but merely offering some extra glimpses into the world that was already created." In fact, Nemec sees the anime as giving them the opportunities to not just expand beyond what's on the page but also further explore what's already there. But I'm very excited about the stories that we're telling. "I promise we will never take the original anime away from the purists. ![]() Nemec Wants Fans to Know They Can Relax: While referring to the Netflix series as "an expansion to the canon" that will "add things" to the show's universe, Nemec wants fans to know that it will in no way take away from the original. Here's a look at some highlights courtesy of EW's upcoming Fall TV preview: Cowboy Bebop (Image: Netflix) But that doesn't mean showrunner André Nemec and Cho are going to make fans wait until then to learn some more about what they can expect and what went into bringing the anime Cowboy Bebop to live-action life. With less than two months to go until John Cho (Spike Spiegel), Mustafa Shakir (Jet Black), and Daniella Pineda (Faye Valentine) bring Cowboy Bebop to full-on, space-adventuring life on November 19th, the Netflix series is expected to play a major role in this weekend's global fan event Tudum being sponsored by the streaming service.
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