John Cho addresses the Cowboy Bebop cancellation: "It was very shocking"
Cho also has a new middle-grade novel, Troublemaker, set during the 1992 L.A. riots
It’s been almost four months since Netflix released the live-action Cowboy Bebop show—which means it’s been almost three months since the streaming service abruptly canceled it, after just a single season on the air. Reactions to the show were decidedly mixed, but it was still somewhat surprising to see the streamer pull the plug so fast, especially given how much time and energy it had invested in the series.
So far, series star John Cho has been resolutely quiet about its quick death, outside of a few oblique references to the cancellation on Twitter. He addressed it more directly this week, though, as a small part of a much larger Hollywood Reporter interview primarily focused on his new middle-grade novel, Troublemaker, which is set during the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. (He also talked, very briefly, about recording a musical duet with his Star Trek co-star Chris Pine, and teased the existence of a video out there somewhere of the franchise’s stars singing together, in character.)