John Cho: Netflix briefly considered using CGI to avoid shutting down when I tore my ACL filming Cowboy Bebop

The Hollywood Reporter

“We were exploring other scenarios. They were talking about maybe doing The Irishman face thing,” Cho said on The Late Late Show, before confirming host James Corden’s comment that the production considered “putting (his) face on someone else’s body.” But that option was too costly. Cho laughed when he said producers also briefly considered the low-cost option of "maybe sitting on a stool while shooting me from the waist up, but they decided this is dangerous."