Adult Swim Series 'Get Jiro!' Gets Brian Tee As Voice Of Jiro
The 'Chicago Med' alum has joined the adaptation of the Anthony Bourdain-penned graphic novels
Adult Swim has called a doctor for its upcoming animated series Get Jiro!. Former Chicago Med star Brian Tee is set to voice the lead character Jiro in the series based on the DC/Vertigo graphic novels written by the late chef and Parts Unknown host Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose with illustrations by Langdon Foss and Alé Garza.
Jiro is a mysterious sushi master in a Los Angeles where master chefs rule the town and customers will murder for coveted restaurant reservation. Jiroenters a bloody culinary war to begin plotting his recipe for revenge. Get Jiro! will be a half-hour series like the Rick and Mortys, My Adventures with Superman and Uzumaki, and it is created by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka.
Tee is probably best known for his seven+ seasons as Dr. Ethan Choi on NBC’s Chicago Med, where he returned to direct within the season of his departure and in the one after. As for his other roles, one of his earliest is Austin Powers in Goldmember, as the Japanese “IT’S GODZILLA” guy who has its legal distinctions explained by another passerby played by Masi Oka. What a pair in hindsight. His breakout is arguably playing Takashi aka "D.K." in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, going onto other film roles including Hamada, the high-ranking Asset Containment Unit commander in Jurassic World, Noburo Mori in The Wolverine and Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, who lived up to the title as much as the Turtles do after the character was played in shadow by an actor of a different, more imposing body type in the previous film. Elsewhere on television, he recurred on Zoey 101 as Kazu, who ran the PCA campus restaurant Sushi Rox. Tee also has episodes of JAG, Monk, Bones, Buffy, Grimm, Burn Notice, Lie to Me, and Agents of SHIELD to his name.
Most recently, Tee wrapped shooting as the lead villain in the third season of Prime Video’s Reacher and starred in the streamer’s limited series Expats playing the husband of Nicole Kidman’s character. Get Jiro!’s pickup was announced at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June.
Source: Deadline