The Merlion is Singapore's official mascot and the statue is the country's most famous landmark. The show doesn't say it's Singapore outright, but it shows young Faye recording her video by the Merlion statue in Singapore. What the video showed was that she grew up in Singapore – a Southeast Asian country that Westerners know very little about, and may have gotten to know a little more about it since Crazy Rich Asians was set there. In the last third of the original anime series, Faye finds a video recording she made when she was a child on Earth and finds out who she really was ( SPOILER: she was just an ordinary person). "Faye Valentine" isn't even her real name, it's the one that was given to her when she was thawed out and couldn't remember her name.Īnd in the original anime, she was Asian.
Now she's a space-faring con artist looking for the big score that would pay off her horrendous debts, eventually becoming a bounty hunter because there's nothing else to do. So it's good that the makers of the live-action remake cast an Asian-American to play Spike.įaye Valentine is a fun role for an actress: she's an amnesiac who was cryogenically frozen in the 21 st Century and awakened in this far future with no memory of her old life or identity.
#COWBOY BEBOP SPIKE AND VALENTINE MOVIE#
If you only watched the anime, you wouldn't necessarily think Spike Spiegel was Asian – until you hear that director Shinichiro Watanabe said Spike's marital arts prowess was inspired by Bruce Lee and his look was inspired by the late Yusaku Matsuda, a popular Japanese movie star from the 1980's who played cool detective tough guys and whose final role was as the Yakuza bad guy in Ridley Scott's Black Rain.
The Bebop is a ship that carries a band of bounty hunters who are perpetually broke as they chase jobs hunting fugitives, hanging out, barely able to stand each other and each running away from a past that threatens to catch up with them, especially for ex-gangster Spike Spiegel, whose former friend-turned-nemesis Vicious has risen in the ranks of the most dangerous triad gang and who has unfinished business with Spike. Netflix announced the main cast of their live-action remake of Cowboy Bebop on Thursday, and many sites and pundits sighed with relief that they didn't "whitewash" the whole cast, going for diverse and color-blind choices: John Cho playing Spike Spiegel, Mustafar Shakir playing Jet, Daniella Pineda playing Faye Valentine, and Alex Russell playing Spike's friend-turned-nemesis Vicious.īut it also raises another question… SunriseĬowboy Bebop is a cool, jazzy space opera adventure about space bounty hunters in a future where humanity has spread across several galaxies and brought their vices and problems with them, including crime, corruption and greed.
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