The original show had a total of 26 episodes, and after it finished airing it rose up to become one of the most popular anime series of all time. The series follows the ragtag group of bounty hunters in Spike, Jet, Faye, and their crew as they roam through the galaxy in 2071 in pursuit of bounties, the more profitable the better. It’s not just popular in Japan itself, but is also a huge anime in the western parts of the world. Here’s hoping that Cho’s Spike gets many seasons of adventures.Cowboy Bebop is one of the most popular anime series to ever exist. It's bullshit and we all know it." Even though Spike Spiegel was created by Shinichirō Watanabe to be a version of himself with heavy visual inspiration from the Japanese actor Yūsaku Matsuda, it says a lot that the choice of an Asian actor to play the role came as a surprise to so many, rather than it being the default.Ĭowboy Bebop is obviously a great opportunity for Cho for many reasons, but it’s also just exciting to see a great actor land the role of a lifetime and get the chance to show audiences what they’ve been missing for decades. In a 2015 tweet he said, "Stop turning Asian roles white. Why was it seen as so unusual for someone as undeniably talented as John Cho to be in the kind of major parts that are typically only given to white men? Why couldn't he be a front-runner to play a Marvel superhero or avenging father in an action thriller or, yes, the lead in an anime adaptation? The latter part has proven especially fracturous over the years with major adaptations of anime and manga being wholly or partly whitewashed, from Scarlett Johansson in The Ghost in the Shell to Netflix's disastrous Death Note remake.Ĭho himself has talked extensively about the lack of opportunities for Asian actors and how often he's been asked to do over-the-top accents or perpetuate anti-Asian stereotypes with roles. The purpose of the campaign, Yu said, was to call attention to the lack of opportunities for Asian American actors in Hollywood. Soon, fans could see Cho as the next James Bond or the romantic hero in the rom-com of the moment. Writer William Yu created the Twitter hashtag #StarringJohnCho, wherein the actor was photoshopped onto existing movie posters as the male lead. In 2016, John Cho became the face of a pop culture social movement. It takes some serious charm and range to make staring at a screen magnetic, but Cho pulled it off and landed an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his performance. This carried over into Searching, a cyber-thriller set entirely on the desktop of a father looking for his missing daughter. Cho's subtlety and melancholy were celebrated, and critics seemed genuinely delighted that he was given such a chance to be the kind of acclaimed leading man that decades of roles had mostly denied him. In recent years, he's been flexing some serious dramatic muscle in critically adored indie dramas like Columbus, wherein he played the son of a renowned architecture scholar who finds himself wandering through the Ohio city famous for its Modernist buildings. Indeed, he has a lot of prematurely cancelled shows to his name, like the sinfully underappreciated rom-com Selfie, which allowed Cho to be a dapper romantic hero alongside Karen Gillan in a modern riff on Pygmalion. For a solid decade, he was That Guy, a recognizable face who popped up in everything, from comedies like the American Pie series to sci-fi such as the Total Recall remake and the ABC series FlashForward. Cho has been a welcome presence in film and TV for almost 25 years.
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