
Both are Red Dragons, although their relationship to Vicious is different. Both Shin and Lin have animated counterparts.

These twins are fearful of, but loyal to their boss. House was in Moana (voice actress ), Thor: Ragnarok, and Netflix’s The New Legends of Monkey.įinally, we have Shin and Lin, Vicious’s henchmen. Live-action Mao is described as ‘more cunning, adept, crafty, and deadly than her counterparts.’ The animated Mao is murdered by Vicious after signing a truce. Interestingly, Mao leads the White Tigers in the live-action version, instead of the Red Dragons. Both versions are a crime syndicate ‘Capo,’ or Caporegime (a crime boss, but below the Don). Mao sounds like a younger, gender swapped version of Mao Yenrai. Park was Hedwig in the first Broadway national tour of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The live-action Gren will be ‘as capable with their wit as a glock.’ The live-action character was described as ‘nonbinary, genderqueer, intersex, transmasculine, and/ or third gender,’ which seems to correlate with the animated version having breasts. In July, it was reported that Gren would have a larger role in the Netflix series. Gren’s story is told in the two-part episode ‘Jupiter Jazz’. After the war, Gren was imprisoned as a spy, escaped, and ended up hiding out on Callisto. The animated Gren was a war veteran who was stationed with Vicious during the war. D6E4qC2SgjĪna’s ‘right-hand person,’ Gren, also has an animated namesake. For the upcoming live action adaptation, the character is being reimagined as nonbinary with a nonbinary actor. Introducing Cowboy Bebop's Gren 🚀 Revolutionary as the original anime was, the vocabulary we have today for LGBTQ+ people didn't quite exist when it aired. Tunie appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Better Call Saul, and 24. Ana is also apparently a ‘surrogate mom’ to Spike. The live-action Ana will be the owner of ‘the hottest underground bluesy jazz club on Mars,’ according to reports. Anastasia, although the character is different enough to be a coincidence. Ana and GrenĪna could be a reference to Annie, a.k.a. Stults has appeared in 7th Heaven, Little Fires Everywhere, and October Road. On the other hand, Jet’s former partner Fad turned out to be working for a crime syndicate. Both provided Jet with information on bounties. During the series, we met a couple of Jet Black’s old ISSP buddies.
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The only ‘Western lawman’ I can think of from the original series is Cowboy Andy, the bounty hunter who dressed like an over-the-top, old-fashioned cowboy. He’s also dating Jet’s ex-wife (Jet was married?). In Variety and other reports, he’s described as a ‘Western lawman,’ who was also Jet Black’s former co-detective from his days at the ISSP’s Homicide Division. No, he’s not the superintendent from The Simpsons.

I’m mystified a little bit about how you can connect with people that you don’t know doing your work, but I won’t question it. You can’t do that now, but … I don’t know what this is. I wish I could have contacted everybody and gotten hugs.

The silver lining is that the fan support that came about as a response helped lift his spirits and he has said how appreciative he is for the fans. Because the cast didn't know it would be a one-and-done series, they also didn't have the opportunity to all formally say farewell to one another after the work they had invested into season 1. It was just a huge event in my life and it was suddenly over."Ĭho was just as surprised as the fans that Netflix had given them the axe. We also shot the show in New Zealand, so my family moved there. It was this huge mountain for me to climb, healing from that injury. I’d gotten injured shooting that show and so I took a year off because of the surgery and devoted myself to rehab, came back and finished the show.
