Cowboy Bebop’s Elena Satine and Alex Hassell on Julia and Vicious’ New Roles

With Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop now streaming, I recently had the chance to talk with Alex Hassell (Vicious) and Elena Satine (Julia) about making the anticipated series. If you’ve never seen Cowboy Bebop, the live-action series adapts the iconic ’90s anime of the same name by Shinichirō Watanabe. The original show follows a group of space bounty hunters Spike Spiegel (Cho), Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) and Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir) in the year 2071 and their lives onboard the eponymous ship Bebop, as they navigate life and try to escape their past. The show is famous for its unique blend of western, sci-fi and noir sensibilities, as well as its amazing jazz-inspired soundtrack. While the Netflix live-action series is extremely faithful to the anime, it takes its time getting the crew together, and expands the roles of Vicious and Julia. During the interview, they talked about adapting their roles from the anime, how they had a lot of room to expand their characters,