Ahead of the release of Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop”, John Cho is opening up about taking on the lead role. When Netflix cast Cho as Spike Spiegel, a 27-year-old bounty hunter, in their adaptation of the iconic anime, the actor, 49, admitted he knew his casting would probably be controversial. “The biggest fear that I had was I was too old,” he told Vulture. “I knew people were gonna have issues with my age.
And I had to get over it.” RELATED: Sandra Oh, John Cho And The Cast Of ‘Over The Moon’ Talk Bringing Asian Representation To Animation “I’m not a person who says age is just a number or whatever.
It was gonna be harder — physically. And I was gonna look different than a 25-year-old guy,” the “Harold & Kumar” alum continued. “At some point,
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