- Hi, I'm John Cho.
- Hi, I'm Daniella Pineda.
- And this is the Wired
Autocomplete Interview. - Autocomplete Interview.
[upbeat music]
- I feel like at some point you need
to do the hard kung fu zoom-in to John's face,
and he says Jeet Kune Do.
- Jeet Kune Do.
[Daniella laughing]
- Yes.
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Oh yes, yes.
Who is John Cho?
- Yeah, man.
- Next.
- I don't know.
I'm working on it.
- It's in progress.
- [John] Who is John Cho's Best friend?
That's a weird one 'cause I'm a grown man.
[group laughing]
- Okay.
Who does John Cho relate to?
Who do you relate to, John?
- What does that mean?
- The fans. - I don't know.
- You know who, this is a serious answer.
I always say with Cal Penn.
We really have a bond, a professional bond,
in the sense that, like,
we're in a very specific space,
"Harold & 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.
- That's a great answer.
What is John Cho
in "How I Met Your Mother?" - "How I Met Your Mother?"
Oh God, I'm trying to remember
because I've been in over a 100 film
and television
[group laughing]
projects.
I remember I fed Kobe lobster to.
There's some lobster joke there.
I'm sorry, I don't remember.
- Well, you've been in so many. How do you remember?
- Is Daniella Pineda in "Jurassic Park?"
- 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.
- Is Daniella Pineda on social media?
- Yes, I am on Instagram @notdaniellapineda.
I mean, we all have burner accounts where we spy on people.
- [John laughing] Does Daniella Pineda do comedy?
- 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 gonna happen,
and now it's sort of a lightweight regret that I have,
but who knows, you never know.
- We should do a comedy together.
- We should.
- Does Daniella Pineda have tattoos?
- 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 gonna live with it forever.
It's a Phoenix.
[cardboard smacking]
It be so funny if that just hit the lights.
[John chuckling]
- [John] Wait, more?
[John grunting]
What, it is not fair. [Daniella laughing]
- What was John Cho?
I mean, what was that?
That John Cho?
[Daniella laughing] What was John Cho?
- What was John Cho first movie?
"Yellow?"
- Nice.
What was that?
- A coming of age movie
about a bunch of kids who.
Oh man, I'm struggling to remember the plot.
- Are you mixing it with "American Pie?"
Which John Cho was also in.
- Yeah and then there was a mom that I wanna.
It was a hot mom.
- Oh yeah.
- And then we went on a spaceship.
- Are you serious?
- No. [John laughing]
- I was like, really?
That's crazy.
What.
- Happened to John Cho?
- What happened to John Cho? [Daniella laughing]
[John mumbling]
There's no. It's just "what happened to John Cho?"
[group laughing]
What the [beep] happened to John Cho?
John Cho is [beep] killing it on a sick hit Netflix show.
[John laughing]
That's what happened to John Cho.
- Boom.
- What kind of question is that?
- Hey, internet.
- Yeah. - [Beep] Off!
- What's up?
- What has John Cho- - Step off!
Okay?
- They're still coming for you John 'cause look.
What has John Cho been in?
What hasn't he been in?
- Internet,
know your place. [Daniella laughing]
- What has John Cho-
- John Cho is been in, okay?
- Yeah.
John Cho's been in. [Daniella laughing]
[John laughing]
- The next one's just gonna be, what Cho?
What is John Cho. - Is.
- In "Cowboy Bebop"?
- John Cho is Spike Spiegel in "Cowboy Bebop".
- Okay, let's go.
- Okay.
- Here we go.
This is so much easier when it's you
[John grunting] and not me.
Who. - Who is Daniella Pineda?
- I don't know. She's some chick.
She's on that thing, the yeah.
[John laughing]
I don't know. - Right.
- Who was Daniella Pineda in "The Originals."
- Ah, I was Sophie Deveraux 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 my orifices.
- That is an all-time great character name.
- Sophie Deveraux? - Sophie Deveraux.
- That's a good name.
- That's an all-time.
Who does Daniella Pineda remind me of?
- Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman.
There could be a lot of greats from the '90s.
- Who is Daniella Pineda.
- Work for.
- In "Cowboy Bebop?"
- Daniella Pineda is Faye Valentine
in the new "Cowboy Bebop."
- Amen. - All right.
Oh, I love it when it's not me and when it's you.
- Oh, again?
- Oh, wait. This is both of us.
- Both of us?
- "Cowboy Bebop."
What year?
I know this one, 2071?
- That's my answer? Are we correct?
[Daniella breathing]
Okay, the day Timothee Chalamet gets his 19th Oscar.
[Daniella laughing]
- So true though.
If you want to be on our show, you can be on our show.
- I'm just kidding, 34th.
- Does "Cowboy Bebop" have gore?
- [John] Have gore?
- Yeah.
- "Cowboy Bebop" do have gore.
- Yeah, it do have gore.
- Much gore.
- But not Al Gore, when we needed him.
Does Keanu Reeves like "Cowboy Bebop?"
- I don't know what Keanu Reeves thinks.
- I actually do know this
because I met him and I talked.
- Oh, that's right. - To him about it
and he had a lot of burning questions and yes,
Keanu Reeves loves our show.
- Really?! - That's confirmed.
Yeah, I talked to him.
Like, we had a moment. [Daniella sighing]
- Where was this?
- This was in 87eleven, his stunt gym, where we trained.
- All right.
Is Ed in "Cowboy Bebop" live action?
Are we, yes.
- Are we allowed? - Are we allowed to?
No. - No.
Where's Ed? - I don't know.
- Where's Ed?
Why is it called "Cowboy Bebop?"
- That's a deep question.
- That's a layered, layered, layered question.
- Bebop is Jet Black's ship.
- But it's also derived from the jazz form, Bebop,
which is quintessential to the essence of the show.
- And Cowboys are what the bounty hunters
are called in that world.,
but it also does-
- Has an influence Spaghetti Western.
- The Spaghetti Western genre.
- It's almost like how much time do you have?
Because that's a very layered question for our show.
- I think we've done it though.
- Yeah, we're good. [John laughing]
We're good.
Oh!
- I thought after the first one we were done.
- No they keep a stack.
- But I was incorrect.
- Do you see that stack?
- Okay.
[group laughing]
- Oh, this is good. Are you ready for this?
- 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.
- 100%.
Is Spike Spiegel.
- [John] In "Cowboy Bebop" sad.
- Oh.
Yeah.
[Daniella laughing]
What is Spike Spiegel ship name?
- I guess possessives aren't popular
- I just can't say. - On the
[Daniella laughing] internet.
The Bebop
or that's Jet's ship?
[Daniella mumbling] The Swordfish. Yeah.
- The Swordfish.
Does Spike Spiegel
have a fake eye? - Have a fake eye?
I don't think he has a fake eye.
- Oh, hang on a second,
before we get into hot water.
- Yeah, before we.
- Is there some reference we don't know about?
- This is a common misconception
because people mistake Sammy Davis Jr
[Daniella laughing] and Spike Spiegel a lot.
I'm just trying to touch on references that the kids-
[group laughing] - Yeah, Sammy Davis Jr.
- That resonate with the kids.
- They'll be like who the [beep] is that.
- What is? - What is?
- Spike "Cowboy Bebop" fighting style?
Do you think that we will adopt internet search language?
People would just be like, nice meet you.
- Seems like from an evolutionary standpoint,
that's where we're headed.
- [John] Yeah.
Jeet Kune Do is his fighting style.
Although he borrows.
He seems like he does whatever he needs
in whatever situation
but Jeet Kune Do.
- Oh boy.
- Is Faye Valentine immortal?
- 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] What is Faye Valentine personality?
- Fun, scrappy, brassy, marshmallowy on the inside.
- Wow, that was concise.
- Yeah
- And vivid.
- I've been with her for quite some time now.
- [John] Do Faye?
- [Daniella] Do Faye?
- Answer the question.
- Do Faye?
- Do Faye. [group laughing]
- Do Faye. - Do Faye.
- [John] And Spite get together?
- No.
- Were you sad?
- You know, [John laughing]
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.
- Yeah.
- Because it's so like a hard no.
Does Faye. - Does Faye.
In "Cowboy Bebop" use knife?
- Yes, I do.
Small little sharp one that fits right in between here.
- The internet search language does sound like a sushi chef.
[Daniella laughing]
- I will say though,
[John laughing] if you don't speak English,
and then this is what you're putting in,
this is actually really impressive.
- Yeah.
- If you were a non-English speaker.
So shout out to all my non-English speakers.
Okay.
Is John Cho.
[Daniella laughing]
- Apologies but yes. [Daniella mumbling]
- Is John Cho a Gemini?
- From what people tell me are Gemini traits,
they're all horrible things.
Two-faced liars, all of that.
Yes, it's accurate.
- Is John Cho in "Cobra Kai?"
That's what you call soft racism.
[Daniella laughing]
No. - Yeah, no.
- I do happen to know the creators of "Cobra Kai."
Two of them created "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,"
which.
I don't wanna brag.
I was Harold but. [John laughing]
- It's kind of a big deal.
- So we're joking around here. It could happen.
- Yeah and if they have like the hot teacher
that like hooks up with the students
in the season five, let me know.
Is John Cho in New Zealand?
- I'm not in New Zealand, correct?
- Are we in New Zealand?
- No, I am no longer in New Zealand,
but I had a good time, thank you.
- Are John Cho? - Are John Cho?
- Are there multiples of you?
Are John Cho and Kal Penn friends?
- We are. I love that guy.
- 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.
[hand tapping]
It means a lot to me.
I appreciate it.
- Give us a moment. [Daniella laughing]
- I'm like not kidding.
That was like a very affirming movie.
I think for a lot of people.
Okay.
- How Daniella Pineda-
- Oh no, I already know where this is going.
- How old is Daniella Pineda?
- Next question.
- How did Daniella Pineda get into acting?
- 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.
- [John] Hmm.
- I was not trying to act.
[group laughing]
It just. Starring then finds me.
- How.
- How to be Daniella Pineda?
- [Daniella laughing] I mean.
Care about your education,
care about succeeding
and then couple that with a five milligram sativa
and you'll be good.
[Daniella laughing]
How.
- How to cosplay Daniella Pineda?
- I don't know if you can cosplay me as a person.
Just copy this.
- How to get. - What?
- Daniella Pineda. - What's happening?
- Faye haircut.
- Oh.
It's a bob.
It's a bob and then dye it purple.
[cardboard creaking]
Alright.
Ooh, these are hows.
How old is John Cho?
- I'm 49.
- You're 33. - 33.
- How tall is John Cho?
- Five, 10.
- There you go.
I'm so into this next question.
How was John Cho's show?
- It's good.
[Daniella laughing]
It's good.
I mean, we had our ups and downs,
[Daniella laughing]
but we're here, and it was good.
- Yeah.
How many movies has John Cho been in?
Care to name your entire IMDB list?
- I'm gonna say 25.
- [Producer] How many IMDB credits do you have?
- Credits do you have?
- I mean, I check every Tuesday.
I like to see, so.
I check my star meter.
I mean, I'm assuming you do the same.
- I'm gonna. [John laughing]
- I'm gonna guess 75.
- [Producer] It's 114.
- It's pretty good, pretty good.
- Bragging rights.
- You know, you don't get to own a condo in Bakersfield
[Daniella laughing]
without putting in the work.
- Hey, shout out to Bakersfield.
Yay, we did it! [group clapping]
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