4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Get ready, K-pop fans and animation lovers! 🎤 In this exclusive Arden Cho & May Hong INTERVIEW! | KPOP DEMON HUNTERS | Interviewing the Huntrix Cast!, Kristian Harloff sits down with two of the stars behind Netflix's highly anticipated animated hit KPOP DEMON HUNTERS — Arden Cho and May Hong — to talk about bringing this stylish, action-packed world to life! 🌟
We dive into what it was like voicing members of the all-girl K-pop group Huntrix, the powerful themes of identity and friendship, and how Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks created the film's incredible look and sound. From the music to the choreography, we break down how this movie is reshaping what fans expect from animated movies on Netflix!
👉 Topics include:
The inspirations behind KPOP DEMON HUNTERS 🎶
Working with the voice cast including Ji-young Yoo, Ahn Hyo-seop, and Rei Ami
How Huntrix compares to real K-pop groups like TWICE and Saja Boys
Representing Asian American culture and life as an Asian American in Hollywood
The incredible soundtrack featuring songs like "Your Idol" and "What It Sounds Like"
If you love K-pop, anime, kdramas, or Netflix animation, this interview is for you! Don't miss this fun and heartfelt chat about KPOP DEMON HUNTERS and how it blends idol culture, supernatural danger, and music in the most stylish way possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Netflix has really been doing it, man. |
| 0:11.7 | They have been really hitting it out of the park. |
| 0:14.7 | And this year, holy moly, did they produce a phenomenon? |
| 0:19.2 | It's not only the talk of my household it's the talk of a lot of |
| 0:24.3 | circles about maybe best animated picture people are talking about this movie like it's got that |
| 0:29.9 | special thing it really does and i am blessed today because i have two of the stars from k-pop demon hunters. I have both Arden Cho and |
| 0:40.6 | Mahong here today. Guys, thank you so much for joining me. I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled. My kids today. |
| 0:47.6 | Thank you for having us. We're so happy to be here. Yeah. Thank you. My kids today were like it was as if, I mean, it was crazy that you better ask everything. I said, yeah, I said, give me break. You should have brought the kids. So it's going to be all their questions. No, no, I can't. Not just, not all there. No, we're ready. We're ready. But a lot. But so let's start here because I saw, we were just talking before we went on air, a very good friend of mine is Greg Galba from The Real Rejects. |
| 1:12.4 | He asked you guys a great question about like your favorite lyric from the song. |
| 1:17.2 | And you both had a great answer about like just not only the lyric of the song, but it was about the things that happened to you in your life that we don't see. |
| 1:25.9 | It's the audition process that we all go through |
| 1:28.7 | as performers and like, not even just as performers, like in general in our lives, there are |
| 1:32.8 | things that happen that it's the bad stuff that makes the good even that better, right? |
| 1:38.1 | So let's start there. Let's start with both you guys. Yeah, let's start with the fact that like |
| 1:42.7 | when you start, you have all these |
| 1:44.7 | kind of down moments. What leads you to this project? Martin, we'll start with you. |
| 1:50.3 | So many. Starting so deep. Yeah, got it. Let's do it. Yeah, I mean, one, I totally agree with you. |
| 1:56.0 | I think so many people see the highlight reels. They see all the good stuff. But I 100% I think now at this |
| 2:03.6 | point in my life, I might not have said this 10 years ago. But today I can say I think some of the |
| 2:08.7 | lowest, hardest moments really have made that journey so special. And I feel like if I hadn't |
| 2:14.9 | gone through those experiences, I don't think I would have done what I did today, if that makes sense. |
| 2:21.1 | A hundred percent. |
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