COLLIDER: I really want to start with congrats on the series.
Echo, I want to start with you first.
Youve said you’ll passionately argue with anyone who tries to tell me ghosts aren’t real.
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ECHO WU: Oh my god.
[Laughs] Yes, you read that correctly.
Did you two ever get into any arguments over ghosts?
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I guess I never asked you.
Do you believe in ghosts?
ALI WONG: I don’t think about it that much to have a passionate argument about it.
But I’ll just be like, Okay, sure.
If you saw them.
But I know plenty of people, I grew up surrounded by people who believe in ghosts.
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WONG: My god, you didn’t tell me that yousawa ghost.
WU: I’ve seen ghosts.
I’m not going to put up a fight with you.
A Chinese-American teen living in a small Texas town finds out a demon king is hunting her for the supernatural powers she’s been working her whole life to repress.
She saw what she saw.
How Ali Wong Found Jentry Through Her Voice
“There’s never enough crying.”
Ali, you’ve done a lot of voiceover work in the past.
WONG: Gosh, it was a process, I would say.
We definitely rerecorded a lot.
I don’t even remember.
There weren’t a lot of discussions.
WONG: A lot of quiet crying.
WU: We made her cry, like, every single time.
There’s never enough crying.
WONG: Yeah, shes under a lot of pressure!
Honestly, she is.
I saw a number of the episodes.
The first season has 13 episodes, so for both of you, which is your favorite and why?
WONG: I just love the image of the painted-skin creature so much.
WU: I love him so much.
I think he first appears in Episode 4.
My favorite episode that came back was Episode 9.
I’m really proud of that episode.
One of the things about the series is it moves pretty quickly in terms of storytelling.
WU: Ive always really enjoyed fast-paced.
It might just be the times, too.
I have a very short attention span, and so I need things to be pretty fast-paced.
But I have this thought of where Jentry will go going forward, too.
It’s not so much about, How much can we put in one season?
The Underworld' arrives on Netflix on December 5, 2024.
It’s 13 episodes.
A lot of shows are six or eight or 10 episodes.
Was it a Netflix decision to do 13?
How did you guys figure out that number?
So, I’m really happy with the number of episodes we landed on.
But those were animated shows that I could watch that adults and kids could watch together.
I think that would be awesome.
I think that would be fantastic.
It’s crazy to think about, but it’s true.
I’m trying to remember the first animated thing I watched…
WONG: King Triton.
That’s very public that that’s mine.
[Laughs] Ill say it since you asked.
They’re a really big impact on the show.
What do you think might surprise people to learn about the making of the show?
WONG: Gosh, we had a researcher on the show.
WU: We did, a cultural consultant.
WONG: She has a PhD in everything, and she was so smart.
WU: Yeah, she was a great help.
I think that is a good point because the show has a lot of Easter eggs in it.
Jentry Chau vs. the Underworldis now streaming on Netflix.
