Cowboy Bebop Cast Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

John Cho and Daniella Pineda answer the web's most searched questions about themselves and 'Cowboy Bebop.' Who is John Cho's best friend? Is Daniella Pineda in Jurassic Park? Is Spike Spiegel a cowboy? Is Faye Valentine immortal? Daniella and John answer all these questions, and much more.Cowboy Bebop is available globally on Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/cowboybebop

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JOHN CHO: Hi I'm John Cho.

DANIELLA PINEDA: I'm Daniella Pineda.

JOHN CHO: And this is the Wired--

BOTH: Autocomplete Interview.

DANIELLA PINEDA: I feel like, at some point, you need to do the hard Kung Fu zoom in to John's face, And he says Jeet Kun Do.

JOHN CHO: Jeet Kun Do.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Yes. Yes, who is John Cho?

JOHN CHO: Uh, yeah, man.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Next--

JOHN CHO: I don't know. I'm-- I'm working on it.

DANIELLA PINEDA: It's in progress.

JOHN CHO: Who is John Cho's best friend? , That's a weird one because I'm so-- I'm a grown man.

[LAUGHTER]

DANIELLA PINEDA: OK who does John Cho-- who does John Cho relate to? Who do you relate to, John?

JOHN CHO: What does that mean?

DANIELLA PINEDA: The Fonz.

JOHN CHO: I don't know. You know who-- this is a serious answer I always say with Kal Penn, we really have a bond, a professional bond, in the sense that like we are in a very specific space. "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle." I know what it's like to be him. And he knows what it's like to be me, yeah.

DANIELLA PINEDA: That's a great answer. What is John Cho in "How I Met Your Mother"?

JOHN CHO: Oh God, I'm trying to remember, because I've been in over a hundred film and television projects. I remember, I fed Kobe lobster to-- there's some lobster joke there. I'm sorry, I don't remember.

DANIELLA PINEDA: You've been in so many. How do you remember?

JOHN CHO: Is Daniella Pineda in Jurassic Park?

DANIELLA PINEDA: I am in Jurassic world. I would love to be in Jurassic Park the original. But I was like very young. But I am in the second and third installment of the new Jurassic World series.

JOHN CHO: Is Daniella Pineda on social media?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Yes, I am on Instagram at @notDaniellaPineda. I mean, we all have burner accounts where we spy on people.

JOHN CHO: Is Daniella Pineda-- does Danielle to do comedy?

DANIELLA PINEDA: I haven't done stand up. But I was this close when I was first starting out. And I thought that that was something that was going to happen. And now it's sort of a lightweight regret that I have. But who knows? You never know.

JOHN CHO: We should do a comedy together.

DANIELLA PINEDA: We should.

JOHN CHO: Does Daniella Pineda have tattoos?

DANIELLA PINEDA: I do. I have one large tattoo that I got in college, before I thought about the rest of my life. And it's huge. And it's on this arm. And I'm going to live with it forever. It's a Phoenix.

It would be so funny if that just had the lighting.

JOHN CHO: Wait, more? Ah! Huzzah. What, this is unfair!

DANIELLA PINEDA: What-- what was John Cho? I mean what was that, that John Cho?

JOHN CHO: What was John Cho first movie, "Yellow"?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Nice, what was that?

JOHN CHO: A coming of age movie about a bunch of kids who-- oh man, I'm struggling to remember the plot.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Are you mixing it with "American Pie", which John Cho was also in?

JOHN CHO: Yeah and then there was a mom that I wanted. It was a hot mom.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Oh yeah.

JOHN CHO: And, we went on a spaceship.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Are you serious?

JOHN CHO: No.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Oh, I was like, really? That's crazy. What--

JOHN CHO: Happened to John Cho?

DANIELLA PINEDA: What happened to John Cho? [LAUGHING] There's no-- It's just, what happened to John Cho. What the [BLEEP] happened to John Cho? John Cho is [BLEEP] killing it on a sick hit Netflix show. That's what happened to John Cho.

JOHN CHO: Boom.

DANIELLA PINEDA: What kind of question is that?

JOHN CHO: Hey internet. [BLEEP] off.

DANIELLA PINEDA: What's up? What has John Cho--

JOHN CHO: Step off, OK?

DANIELLA PINEDA: They're still coming for you John, because look, what has John Cho been in? What hasn't he been in?

JOHN CHO: Internet, know your place.

DANIELLA PINEDA: What has John Cho been in?

JOHN CHO: John Cho's been in, OK?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Yeah.

JOHN CHO: John Cho's been in.

DANIELLA PINEDA: The next one is going to be, what Cho? What is John Cho in Cowboy Bebop?

JOHN CHO: John Cho is Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop.

DANIELLA PINEDA: OK

JOHN CHO: OK, here we go.

DANIELLA PINEDA: This is so much easier when it's you, not me.

BOTH: Who,

JOHN CHO: Who, who is Daniella Pineda?

DANIELLA PINEDA: I don't know. She's some chick. She's on that thing, the-- yeah.

JOHN CHO: All right, who was Daniella Pineda in "The Originals"?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Ah, I was Sophie Devereaux in "The Originals", a witch who they killed off mid-season, season one. And they decided to give me a death where I bled out of all of my orifices.

JOHN CHO: That is an all-time great character name--

BOTH: Sophie Devereaux.

DANIELLA PINEDA: That's a good name.

JOHN CHO: That's an all time. Who does Daniella Pineda remind me of?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, there could be a lot of greats from the 90s.

JOHN CHO: Who is Daniella Pineda--

DANIELLA PINEDA: --work for.

JOHN CHO: --in Cowboy Bebop?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Daniella Pineda is Fay Valentine in the new Cowboy Bebop.

JOHN CHO: Amen.

DANIELLA PINEDA: All right, oh, I love it when it's not me and when it's you. Oh wait this is both.

JOHN CHO: Both of us?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Cowboy Bebop--

BOTH: --what year--

DANIELLA PINEDA: I know this one, 2071?

JOHN CHO: That's my answer is-- are we correct?

DANIELLA PINEDA: [EXHALES]

JOHN CHO: OK, the day Timothy Chalamet gets his 19th Oscar.

DANIELLA PINEDA: That's so true though. If you want to be on our show, you can be on our show.

JOHN CHO: I'm just kidding, 34th.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Does Cowboy Bebop--

BOTH: --have gore?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Yeah.

JOHN CHO: Cowboy Bebop do have gore.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Yeah, do have gore.

JOHN CHO: Much gore.

DANIELLA PINEDA: But not Al Gore, when we needed him. Does Keanu Reeves like Cowboy Bebop?

JOHN CHO: I don't know what Keanu Reeves likes.

DANIELLA PINEDA: I actually do know this, because I met him. And I talked to him about. It and he had a lot of burning questions. And yes, Keanu Reeves loves our show.

JOHN CHO: Really?

DANIELLA PINEDA: That's confirmed, yeah, I talked to him. We had a moment.

JOHN CHO: Where was this?

DANIELLA PINEDA: This was an "87Eleven", his stunt show where we trained.

JOHN CHO: All right. Is Ed in Cowboy Bebop live action? Yes--

DANIELLA PINEDA: Are we allowed to--

JOHN CHO: Are we allowed to-- no.

DANIELLA PINEDA: No, where's Ed?

JOHN CHO: I don't know.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Where's Ed? Why is it called Cowboy Bebop?

JOHN CHO: That's a deep question.

DANIELLA PINEDA: That's a layered, layered, layered question.

JOHN CHO: Bebop is Jet Black's ship.

DANIELLA PINEDA: But it's also derived from the Jazz form bebop, which is quintessential to the essence of the show.

JOHN CHO: And Cowboys are what the bounty hunters are called in that world. But it also does--

DANIELLA PINEDA: --some elements of Spaghetti Western.

JOHN CHO: --the Spaghetti Western genre.

DANIELLA PINEDA: It's a really-- it's almost like, how much time do you have? Because that's a very layered question, for our show.

JOHN CHO: I think we've done it, though.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Yeah, we're good.

JOHN CHO: I thought after the first one, we were done.

DANIELLA PINEDA: No it keeps going.

JOHN CHO: But I was incorrect.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Do you see that stack? Oh this is good. Are you ready for this?

JOHN CHO: Is Spike Spiegel a cowboy? Yes, a cowboy is a slang term for a bounty hunter in the world of Cowboy Bebop. So yes, he is.

DANIELLA PINEDA: --a hundred percent. Is Spike Spiegel--

JOHN CHO: --in Cowboy Bebop said.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Oh, yeah. What is Spike Spiegel's ship name?

JOHN CHO: I think these possessives aren't popular on the internet.

DANIELLA PINEDA: [LAUGHS] I was just going to say that.

JOHN CHO: The Bebop, or that's Jets ship? The Swordfish, yeah.

DANIELLA PINEDA: The Swordfish

JOHN CHO: The Swordfish

DANIELLA PINEDA: The Swordfish. Does spike Spiegel--

BOTH: --have a fake eye?

JOHN CHO: I don't think he has a fake eye.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Hang on a second, before we get into hot water. Is there some reference we don't know about?

JOHN CHO: This is a common misconception, because people mistake Sammy Davis Jr. And Spike Spiegel a lot. I'm just trying to touch on references that the kids--

[CREW LAUGHING]

DANIELLA PINEDA: Sammy Davis Jr?

JOHN CHO: --that will resonate with the kids.

DANIELLA PINEDA: They'd be like, who the [BLEEP] is that?

BOTH: What is--

JOHN CHO: --Spike Cowboy Bebop fighting style? Do you think that we will adopt internet search language? People will just be like, nice meet you.

DANIELLA PINEDA: It seems like from an evolutionary standpoint, that's where we're headed.

JOHN CHO: Yeah, Jeet Kun Do is his fighting style. Although he borrows-- he seems like he does whatever he needs, in whatever situation, but Jeet Kun Do.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Oh boy.

JOHN CHO: Is Faye Valentine immortal?

DANIELLA PINEDA: What? She was frozen. But that's because of the help of modern technology. But she is by no means immortal. That would make her like a God. And she's definitely just a regular lady.

JOHN CHO: What is Faye Valentine personality?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Fun, scrappy, brassy, marshmallow-y on the inside.

JOHN CHO: Wow, that was concise.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Yeah.

JOHN CHO: And vivid.

DANIELLA PINEDA: I've been with her for quite some time now.

JOHN CHO: Do Faye?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Do Faye?

JOHN CHO: Answer the question.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Do Faye?

JOHN CHO: Do Faye-- do Faye and spike get together?

DANIELLA PINEDA: No.

JOHN CHO: No.

DANIELLA PINEDA: No.

JOHN CHO: Where you sad?

DANIELLA PINEDA: You know, I was like, could it go there? But honestly, I feel like if you did that, fans would be like burning down sets and stuff.

JOHN CHO: Yeah

DANIELLA PINEDA: Because it's so like hard no.

BOTH: Does Faye--

JOHN CHO: --in Cowboy Bebop use knife?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Yes, Yes, I do, small little sharp one that fits right in between here.

JOHN CHO: The internet search language does sound like a sushi chef.

DANIELLA PINEDA: I will say, though, if you don't speak English and then this is what you're putting in, this is actually really impressive, if you were a non-English Speaker. So shout out to all my non-English speakers. OK is John Cho-- [LAUGHS]

JOHN CHO: Apologies but yes.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Is John Cho a Gemini?

JOHN CHO: From what people tell me are Gemini traits, they're all horrible things, two-faced liars, all of that. Yes, it's accurate.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Is John Cho in "Cobra Kai?"

JOHN CHO: It's what you call soft racism, no.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Yeah, no.

JOHN CHO: I do happen to know the creators of "Cobra Kai." Two of them created "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle", which I don't want to brat, I was Harold but--

DANIELLA PINEDA: That's kind of a big deal.

JOHN CHO: So we're joking around here, it could happen.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Yeah, and if they have like the hot teacher that like hooks up with the students in the season 5, let me know. Is John Cho in New Zealand?

JOHN CHO: I'm not in New Zealand, correct?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Are we in New Zealand?

JOHN CHO: No, I am no longer in New Zealand. But I had a good time. Thank you.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Are John Cho-- are there multiples of you? Are John Cho and Kal Penn friends?

JOHN CHO: We are, I love that guy.

DANIELLA PINEDA: It's legal in California, so I can say this. But as a forever slight pothead, your movie was very inspirational to me. Thank you, thank you for making that movie. It means a lot to me. I appreciate it.

JOHN CHO: Give us a moment.

DANIELLA PINEDA: I'm like not kidding. That was like very, a very affirming movie, I think, for a lot of people, OK.

JOHN CHO: How Daniella Pineda--

DANIELLA PINEDA: Oh, no I don't-- I already know where this is going.

JOHN CHO: How old is Daniella Pineda?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Next question.

JOHN CHO: How did Daniella Pineda get into acting?

DANIELLA PINEDA: It was on accident. I was trying to be a writer, director. Acting was never on the table. And then acting is something that chased me down and found me. And here I am. But that was never the intention. I was not trying to act.

JOHN CHO: [SARCASTIC SCOFF]

DANIELLA PINEDA: [SARCASTIC SCOFF] Stardom finds me.

JOHN CHO: How to be Daniella Pineda?

DANIELLA PINEDA: I mean, care about your education, care about succeeding, and then couple that with a five milligram Sativa, and you'll be good.

JOHN CHO: [LAUGHS]

DANIELLA PINEDA: How--

JOHN CHO: How to cosplay Daniella Pineda?

DANIELLA PINEDA: I don't know if you can cosplay me as a person. Just copy this.

JOHN CHO: How to get--

DANIELLA PINEDA: What?

JOHN CHO: --Daniella Pineda, Faye haircut?

DANIELLA PINEDA: Oh, it's a bob. It's a bob and then dye it purple. All right, oh these are hows. How old is John Cho?

JOHN CHO: I'm 49.

DANIELLA PINEDA: You're thirty--

JOHN CHO: Thirty--

BOTH: Three.

DANIELLA PINEDA: How tall is John Cho?

JOHN CHO: 5' 10"

DANIELLA PINEDA: There you go. I'm so into this next question. How is John Cho's show?

JOHN CHO: It's good. It's good, I mean we had our ups and downs. But we're here and it was good.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Yeah, how many movies has John Cho been in? Care to name your entire IMDb list?

JOHN CHO: I'm going to say 25?

- How many IMDb credits--

JOHN CHO: --credits do you have?

DANIELLA PINEDA: I mean I check every Tuesday. I like to see, so I check my star meter. I check-- I mean, I'm assuming you do the same thing.

JOHN CHO: I'm going to-- [LAUGHS] I'm going to guess 75.

- It's 114.

JOHN CHO: That's pretty good, pretty good.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Bragging rights.

JOHN CHO: You know, you don't get to own a condo in Bakersfield without putting in the work.

DANIELLA PINEDA: Hey, shout out to Bakersfield. Yay, we did it.

[APPLAUSE]