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The following is a transcript of the WIRED Autocomplete with Arcane stars Ekko and Jinx.
(Ekko and Jinx are sat on two foldable chairs. Ekko wears a light, tropical shirt, ripped blue jeans and Timbaland boots. Jinx is wearing a purple crop tee, boyfriend jeans with assorted patches, and white converse.)
EKKO: I’m Jinx.
(Jinx laughs)
JINX: And I’m Ekko.
EKKO: And we are doing the WIRED Au—
JINX: Autocomplete interview.
EKKO: …that’s the one.
(Jinx gets handed a question board)
JINX: Alright, so I’m going first? Yeah, as I should!
(Cut)
JINX: ‘What is Jinx’s…’ (she rips off the strip of paper covering the question) ‘height?’ (Facing the camera) Five foot three… and every inch is mean!
EKKO: You’re five three but have five seven energy.
JINX: I— (she pulls a face) five seven energy?? I think you meant like… eight nine energy.
EKKO: Eighty nine centimetre energy.
JINX: I’m going to take this board and— (mimics hitting him with it, Ekko fake shields himself with his hands) mister.
EKKO: (to camera) Yeah, she is mean.
JINX: (to camera) I’m cute and small… and deadly.
(Cut, Jinx is preparing to rip off the next strip).
JINX: ‘What is…’ (rips it off) ‘Jinx known for?’ I’m… infamous. I’m mostly known for being in a dope show called Arcane—
EKKO: (smirking) Never heard of it.
(Jinx holds a hand up to Ekko, faux silencing him, and keeps talking to the camera.)
JINX: —where I—that’s on you—where I play the coolest, craziest psychopath, Jinx! I’m also known for being super funny, and for my impeccable… drip. (Ekko raises an eyebrow) despite the so-called “circus pants” I wear in the show I’m a bit of a style icon…. I guess I’m known for being an icon in general!
(She slowly rips off the next strip)
JINX: ‘What is Jinx’s…. weapon?' I have a few—
EKKO: Her self-confidence.
JINX: Yes! Question answered perfectly, ten out of ten, thank you to (demonstrating Ekko) my wonderful publicist, who knows me so well! Okay, no, so… Jinx in the show is very resourceful and like, has a few weapons. I have my pistol, which is sorta a revolver but isn’t, it’s a totally improvised doohickey. I have Fishbones, my rocket launcher, and my gatling gun Pow-Pow. But really, I mean (to Ekko) you joke, but Jinx’s biggest asset is her resourcefulness and fearlessness. Like, you take all her weapons away, and she could still…
EKKO: Annihilate you.
JINX: (to camera) Exactly, annihilate you! So… (shrugs) don’t mess with da best, maybe?
JINX: Alright… so … ‘what is Jinx’s…’ (she rips off another strip) ‘eye colour’? (She immediately covers her eyes) guess, guess!
EKKO: Like, brown?
(Jinx lowers her hands immediately, glares at Ekko.)
JINX: What?!
(They look into each other’s eyes.)
EKKO: Blue-grey.
(There is a short but notable silence. Jinx leans back and faces the camera.)
JINX: …Yes.
EKKO: Kinda mostly blue but with some drops of grey mixed in.
JINX: It’s umm… (clearing throat, looks down, fixes her clothing, looks up) yeah, they’re blue-grey.
EKKO: Brey.
(Jinx sniggers)
JINX: ‘What is Jinx’s… favourite food?' (Looking at the camera) a lot of people don’t know this, but I’m actually a big eater. I love Chinese, I love Japanese, Asian in general is an ideal night out.
(Ekko holds out his palm and mimics taking notes, Jinx laughs) really though, I have multiple sweet tooths. Sweet teeth? On set I ate… terribly. At the catering truck I mostly ate the cakes, the pastries… I think I ate an apple once.
EKKO: Once!
JINX: Because it’s all there was, the shoot finished late.
EKKO: I was on like, a very specific diet and you were eating all that and your body still… (indicating it up and down) bodying.
JINX: Yeah boi. Who’s gonna stop me?
(She throws the board away.)
(Cut. Ekko is handed his own board.)
JINX: I have been waiting so long for this.
EKKO: You know that you can just… ask me questions? We do know each other.
JINX: No, it hits different when someone else is asking the questions and you’re forced to answer.
EKKO: (shaking his head) This is what I’m dealing with.
EKKO: ‘What is Ekko’s…’ (rips off the strip of paper) ‘height?' (To camera) I am all of five six.
JINX: You’re definitely taller than that.
EKKO: I get that a lot, but—
JINX: Stand up.
EKKO: What?
JINX: (standing up) I said stand up, I want to see something.
(He puts the question board down and stands up, she stands herself right in front of him. He looks down at her into her eyes, a few inches taller.)
JINX: You feel taller.
EKKO: That why you still call me little man?
JINX: You are my little man… so to speak.
EKKO: M-hm.
(They sit back down. He talks to camera.)
EKKO: There’s your proof. I am one point two, one point three jinxes tall. I still get called little man, because… I was a child once, I guess? So, there you go. I think I prefer boy saviour, but I’ve heard worse nicknames. (He shrugs, picks up the question board.)
EKKO: ‘What is Ekko’s… Instagram?’ I don’t have one. I used to, before I made it big. But after a while I… wasn’t really into the whole social media scene anymore. I keep getting told I’m missing out, but—
JINX: Well yeah because I have so many funny things I want to send you.
EKKO: I don’t… I don’t see the appeal, I just don’t see it.
JINX: You connect with friends and your adoring fans—
EKKO: I love my fans, I love my friends! We’re literally connecting right now, you and I, and we’re connecting with them (points to camera), through the medium of like, video!
JINX: Yeah, but it’s so fun to post little pictures and—
EKKO: Stories of you singing along to the Wicked soundtrack in your room?
(Jink looks shocked and sits up.)
JINX: How do you know about that?! You don’t have—
EKKO: Vi showed me.
JINX: That’s not fair! I thought you wouldn’t see that!
EKKO: A million followers and you thought it wouldn’t get back to me?
JINX: …That was the plan.
(Ekko chuckles and shakes his head as he reaches for the next question.)
EKKO: ‘What is Ekko’s… ability in Arcane?’ In League of Legends and Arcane… well it’s not an ability, it’s a device—
JINX: But you build it, like your character has the ability to build it.
EKKO: Yeah true, it’s the ability to go back in time, by four seconds. No longer than that or… bad things happen. But to be honest, I think four seconds is just right, just enough to fix annoying mistakes. Like to avoid attacks or erasing terrible one-liners that don’t work. You know? Like ‘hey girl, wanna—'
JINX: Yes.
(Ekko throws his hands up, Jinx bursts out laughing.)
EKKO: I—I’m trying to make a point here, I was gonna do my Z-Drive impression.
JINX: Oh okay, you can do it anyway.
(Ekko mimics revving the Z-Drive, making a noise to go along with it, and talks in fake reverse.)
JINX: Wow that was so impressive, do you practice with a lawnmower?
EKKO: Yeah, I’m gonna mow the blue lawn on your head if you keep this up.
JINX: I’ve been meaning to get a new look.
EKKO: The annoying thing is it would actually really suit you. (He stares at her) like damn, I can really see you rocking it. I’d be doing you a favour. (Turns to camera) I’m not gonna shave her head.
EKKO: ‘What is Ekko’s… favourite anime?’ I don’t really make a secret of it, I do love anime. Started out when my dad got me into Dragon Ball, and then kept up with a lot of the good stuff throughout school and college but for me… man, it’s gotta be One Piece. I think Ekko and Luffy would be an incredible duo. Marines, Pilties… wouldn’t stand a chance against us. Stein’s Gate is pretty good too.
JINX: I can imagine you getting into character by screaming at the mirror in your trailer to go all like, beast mode with the yellow hair.
EKKO: Beast mode with the—do you mean Super Saiyan?
JINX: Do I? I don’t know, I don’t watch this stuff.
EKKO: I think you’re missing out. When you come over we’ll hunker down and I’ll show you some good stuff. There’s this one show, Neon Genesis Evangelion, I think you’d love it.
JINX: Yeah?
EKKO: Yeah, it’s about robots and daddy issues.
(Jinx breaks into laughter.)
JINX: I can’t believe you know me this well!
EKKO: Can’t you?
(Cut.)
(Jinx gets handed another board)
JINX: You all know too much about me already.
EKKO: No, we do not! You know too much about me!
JINX: (ripping the strip off slowly) ‘Does Jinx… do her own stunts?’ Ever since I was a little troublemaker, I loved the idea of being a stuntwoman, whenever I played outside I always came back home with an extra bruise…
EKKO: Bet Vander loved that.
JINX: He was much happier when I switched to regular old acting, yeah. But the stunt bug never left me, so I begged Christian to let me do as many of my own fights and stunts as possible, and I’m so glad because it’s so much better for the fans, but also… I look cool as hell. So yeah, I kind of like to imagine it’s my… it’s my trademark, my signature, my… artistic voice.
EKKO: Did you also do all the stuff with the explosions?
JINX: I wanted to, so I decided to expand my knowledge and I did train in the, you know, extremely fine art of crafting explosives. I learned… a lot of things which would usually stick me on an FBI watchlist, just to get into the mindset of Jinx… and it paid off because you could say that Arcane BLEW UP OVERNIGHT BABY!
EKKO: Eyyyy, yeah it did!
(They high five.)
EKKO: It could not have done it without you!
JINX: I know! Christian did insist that I take a pyrotechnics safety course as well… something about ensuring that the cast and crew is safe at all times, which, you know… had to be done, I guess.
JINX: ‘Does Jinx in Arcane… die on the bridge?’ (Looks up at the camera in confusion) guys, what are these searches? Do you want my character dead? So morbid!
EKKO: Look up normal things, like… how to build a Z-Drive in your own garage, you know?
JINX: Geez… so, spoiler alert, no Jinx does not die on the bridge. Would have been a very different second season without me.
EKKO: Probably more screentime for me to be honest.
JINX: I—hey!
EKKO: I’m just saying.
JINX: Your character would be nothing without me!
EKKO: What would your character be without me?
(Jinx and Ekko smirk at each other.)
(Cut.)
JINX: Jinx didn’t die on the bridge… but I nearly did, it was freezing that day! That whole week was like…
EKKO: Tough shoot for sure.
JINX: No, because we’d shot on location and (she places the board down and indicating with her hands) the bridge was like, this high up so it’s already colder and we shot in the winter so double freezing. We’re shooting this incredible sequence which honestly probably took like, a week of solid shooting, and we’re all professionals but it was… gruelling.
EKKO: You were a real trooper that week.
JINX: Aww, thank you. So were you. No and (she turns to camera) he lent me his big coat throughout too!
EKKO: Lent? I don’t recall having a choice in the matter.
JINX: You were so generous…
EKKO: (facing camera) My coat went missing on the first day.
JINX: Such a gentleman…
EKKO: Where did I find it? (He points at her with his thumb.)
JINX: So, so kind…
EKKO: (facing Jinx) We got through it together. We’re a good team. We’d be nothing without each other.
(They smile softly at each other. He wraps his arm around her shoulder and pulls her in for a hug, a variety of ‘aww’s’ are heard from behind the camera.)
JINX: Aww, Ekko…
(He lets her go.)
EKKO: Alright that’s enough being cute, let’s go back to talking about hitting you in the face with a lead pipe.
(Jinx bursts out laughing.)
JINX: ‘How does Jinx in Arcane…. kidnap Caitlyn?’
EKKO: Oh boy, here we go.
JINX: (to camera) Okay, real talk guys… I… don’t know… This is something I actually talked with Christian and Amanda about because I wanted to understand too and like… they gave me nothing. It’s a great scene like, visually, but… logistically, how does it work?
EKKO: Right because, did Jinx knock her out and dress her, or are you holding her at gunpoint the whole time while she gets dressed?
(Jinx mouths ‘I don’t know.’)
JINX: That second one you mentioned is the consensus amongst fans, and I guess we’ll have to accept it.
EKKO: I’d hate that.
JINX: Being kidnapped? Can’t see myself being super pumped on that, no.
EKKO: No, I mean, like getting forced to get dressed quickly when it’s humid.
JINX: That’s your main worry while being kidnapped?
EKKO: (to camera) If someone watching this has any intention of kidnapping me, be courteous and, I mean don’t, but if you do, wait until after I’m showered and dressed and cooled down, okay?
JINX: (to camera, shrugging) He asked nicely.
JINX: ‘Does Jinx in Arcane… wear other outfits?’ (To camera) Jinx in the show has a lovingly crafted look, we spent a few weeks with the costume department figuring it out, but—
EKKO: The pants, of course, are a standout.
JINX: The ‘what’s wrong with my pants’ reaction may as well have been improvised by me, when I saw the ‘ripped circus tent’ line in the script I was so offended. Anyway, yes, in the final battle, both her and Ekko have new threads. We spent some time putting that together too; we considered a few things. I’m sure you guys have seen this, but we even went pretty out there and tried the now infamous belt bra.
EKKO: (nodding) The belt bra…
JINX: I was super up for that, superup for it, but after a bit of reflection we all felt it was… too much for what the scene really was about. You know, it’s the emotional high point of the series and I didn’t want to distract everyone with my… well, you get it. (Ekko laughs.)
EKKO: But the belt bra lives on in our hearts… and minds.
JINX: Remember when I walked on set with it on and you went red?
EKKO: I think you’re lying. The lighting was different. (Jinx laughs at Ekko, Ekko turns to camera) guys, the lighting was different!
(Cut.)
(Jinx reaches for the next strip and pulls it off slowly.)
JINX: ‘Does Jinx in Arcane… like Ekko?’ (Jinx looks up, nervous) I mean, uh—
EKKO: (leans forward) does she?
(Awkward pause)
JINX: Their relationship… (She blows out a breath) I mean, look, it’s…
EKKO: It’s comp—
JINX: Complicated—yes. There are dimensions to it, I mean… if a guy and gal get into a full-fisted fight on a bridge, are they flirting? If he knows her so intimately that he’s capable of dodging literal bullets, is that pure adoration on Ekko’s side?
EKKO: There’s an amount to consider.
JINX: Jinx is a messy character who, like all of us, is capable of holding both love, and hate, and a number of bomb recipes, in her heart.
(She throws the board away.)
(Ekko gets given a new board.)
EKKO: Alright, let’s do it.
EKKO: ‘Does Ekko… (rips off the strip) speak multiple languages?’ (Looking at the camera) yes!
JINX: What?!
EKKO: I speak English… but I do also know French.
JINX: (sitting up, shocked) No, you don’t!
EKKO: Yeah I—
JINX: Prove it!
(Ekko laughs.)
EKKO: meApparemment, je parle pas français.
(Jinx’s eyes widen and her jaw drops, she looks at the camera then back to Ekko.)
EKKO: Mais comme tu vois, ou plutôt comme t'entends, bah si!
JINX: (recovering from the shock) When did you learn French?!
EKKO: Du coup, j'ai déjà bossé en France avant et—
JINX: No, no, (she facepalms, Ekko laughs) in English.
EKKO: I’ve actually worked in France before, I had a gig on a show filmed in Paris, the show was in English but I decided to… I guess, immerse myself in the culture, you know?
JINX: What like, Emily in Paris but… Ekko in Paris?
EKKO: Absolutely! I love French wine, French women (Jinx faces the camera and rolls her eyes), the French language, love how it sounds… so I thought why not, and became fluent in six months.
JINX: Wow… how many hidden talents do you have?
EKKO: (looking at Jinx) Guess you’ll have to find out.
(Pause.)
JINX: You love being a mystery…
(Ekko faces the camera, winks.)
EKKO: ‘Does Ekko… (rips off the paper) play basketball?’ (Looks up at camera, excited) Yes! Ish! I used to play for the Zaun Flames, on the under 16s. I played Shooting Guard. I was then, I mean, 'recruited’ but essentially poached by the Piltover Pounders—
JINX: The what now?
EKKO: Don’t! I know, that’s what they’re called, please just…
JINX: (smirks) go on…
EKKO: I actually got really good, and they said I could go pro.
JINX: No way!
EKKO: Way, way! I went hard on the hardwood.
JINX: What I want to know is, what number did you wear?
EKKO: (holds up four fingers) four. What else?
JINX: He asks as if it’s obvious.
EKKO: (facing the camera) Four letters in Ekko. Four letters in GOAT. And… four seconds is all I need.
JINX: Not if you ask me.
(Ekko smiles and his eyebrows raise in surprise. Jinx sniggers. Ekko clears his throat.)
EKKO: Anyway! Yeah, I balled, but in the end, the call of the stage, the thespian’s life, was much louder, it resonated with me more and… here I am! (He turns to notice Jinx, smirking) What?
JINX: You were actual Troy Bolton. (Ekko starts laughing) you turned into my childhood crush, incredible. What are the odds?
EKKO: Well, if you think about it… (turns to Jinx) I didn’t stop, because that’s who I am, and I gave it all I—
JINX: (covering her face, smiling) Stop!
EKKO: —gave it all I got, that was the plan.
JINX: And to be fair you absolutely do mean what you say.
(Pause, they smile at each other.)
EKKO: (nodding) Bet on it.
JINX: (nodding) Bet on it.
EKKO/JINX: (quietly singing) Bet on it, bet on it…
(Pause.)
EKKO: Nice.
(Cut.)
EKKO: I still do enjoy basketball, I have a court in my backyard, sometimes the boys come over and we play pickup.
JINX: You still got the moves?
EKKO: Course I do.
JINX: Maybe I should come over and you can show me.
EKKO: It’ll be a fun afternoon, I’ll show you how it’s done.
EKKO: ‘Does Ekko in Arcane… have parents?’ Uh, yes. They’re never on screen and it’s never mentioned if they’re dead or absent but yes, Ekko does have parents. Inna and Wyeth, named after my real parents.
JINX: You asked Christian about this and you got a big fat ‘IDK’.
EKKO: I think we’ve learned that Christian always has a plan, just not a willingness to share it. (To camera) but yes, Ekko has parents, and they’re… around, just not on screen. Thankfully I have a lot more contact with my folks, we FaceTime almost every day.
JINX: That’s sweet.
EKKO: ‘Does Ekko… model?’ Woah! I like that question!
JINX: Do you model though?
EKKO: I like that they don’t even know if I do, but they’re just sure enough that I could that they have to double check.
JINX: I mean if you said you did, I’d believe you.
EKKO: You too though.
JINX: No. But your cheekbones are made to be put on a billboard. I don’t even know what you’d sell, I’d just buy it like (click fingers) that.
EKKO: Well, I’m not a model by trade, but after Season 1 came out obviously we all blew up and yeah, I got to throw some clothes on, strike a few poses…
JINX: For real?
EKKO: I did a campaign for Armani, I did one for Ralph Lauren…
JINX: (raising eyebrows) What!
EKKO: Balenciaga….
JINX: Did you get free clothes?
EKKO: Yeah, of course.
JINX: I’m raiding your wardrobe next time I’m over.
EKKO: (smiling) No, you’re not.
JINX: (points finger) that’s not up to you, sir.
EKKO: ‘Does Ekko… have SoundCloud?’ (He throws his hands on his face in shame and groans) I don’t like where this is going.
JINX: I hope it’s going exactly where I think it’s going.
EKKO: (looking to camera, embarrassed) When I was… fourteen, I was considering my options in life, there was a brief period where… basically I thought if I started a SoundCloud and dropped some really good mixtapes and get noticed…
JINX: This is the greatest day of my life.
EKKO: As soon as I got the Arcane job I deleted it—
JINX: This is the worst day of my life.
EKKO: I am sparing you.
JINX: The lord giveth, and the lord taketh away…
EKKO: It was all nonsense, I promise, it was not fire. It was… water? I guess that’s the opposite of fire?
(Jinx pulls a comically sad face and drags her finger down her cheek, mimicking a tear.)
EKKO: (gives an exaggerated sigh) I may have a demo or two on a hard drive back home.
JINX: (Jinx pumps her fists) yes! Of. My. Life!
(He throws the board away.)
EKKO: Let’s move on.
(Jinx gets handed a new question board)
JINX: Why are these so big?
JINX: ‘Is Jinx… related to Isha?’ Yes! Spiritually. Not by blood. When Christian told me that in Season 2 I’d be working with a child actress I was… excited, and very nervous because you know, it’s a huge responsibility. You want to be professional but you also don’t want to accidentally cause any lingering trauma, or leave them unsupervised to wander off to the pyrotechnics table… But we had the best time and, like Jinx in the show, I became something like a maternal sister to her.
EKKO: You’ve gotta tell them the story.
JINX: (confused) The story? (Realising, her eyes widen) the story! Yes! Okay so… Isha, being mute but also because others don’t really know sign, her way of bonding with others is playing games. She has a Switch which she brought to set every day, and in-between setups or before bed most of us would play Smash Bros together.
EKKO: I mained Cloud, Jinx mained the Inklings, and Isha was Kirby.
JINX: Yes! Vi was Little Mac like, the three times she played, and Cait was… Bayonetta! So, we’re playing basically every day, and when she wrapped her scenes so was so upset about leaving us, so we went over to her trailer, and her mom let us take over their trailer for the night. The three of us played Smash, we watched Tangled, we ate pizza… and we crashed, like, with a capital C.
EKKO: (looking at Jinx) Best night of our lives.
JINX: Yeah… but… you and I were having so much fun we totally forgot we had a scene together the next day, and the director himself was knocking on the trailer door to wake us up. We were so, so late. And I’m thinking, we’re so cooked. Then Isha signs something, the director’s like ‘what’s she saying’ and I translate, and… she was basically saying that we’d spent the night helping her with her homework.
EKKO: Yeah, nevermind the empty pizza boxes or the Switch.
JINX: The director didn’t believe Isha for a second, but he wasn’t going to make her feel guilty for keeping us up so…. Isha, girl if you’re watching, (she finger guns) we’re bad boys for life!
(Ekko nods and pounds his chest.)
JINX: ‘Is Jinx… going to be in Season 3?’ guys! I don’t know how you tell you this…
EKKO: Um…
JINX: No-one is going to be in Season 3! There is no Season 3! I won’t be in it, (to Ekko) you won’t be in it, (to camera), Season 2 is the epic conclusion to the Arcane saga.
EKKO: Well, there’s rumours about other shows and—
JINX: Ssshh, yeah yeah, details, whatever. But also, Christian, if you’re watching, I would love to be part of the spinoffs. Give the fans…
EKKO: What they deserve!
JINX: The key word: deserve!
JINX: ‘Is Jinx… in Suicide Squad?’ no! I think they’re specifically talking about Harley Quinn, which, sadly no. But I truly, in my heartiest of hearts would die for that role because—
EKKO: How you gonna play that role if you’re dead?
JINX: It’s… No, I’m… it’s an expression. I’m not being literal.
EKKO: Better not.
JINX: Okay fine, I’d kill for that role. Better?
EKKO: That’s more like it. It’s in character at least.
(Cut.)
JINX: In one of the many times I have Googled myself, I have seen fan casts of me as Harley, which is flattering, but also painful because it’s my dream role, one thousand percent. I think Margot is killing it, I hope she gets to play Harley forever but… DC, if you’re thinking of doing like, another reboot, kinda seems like your thing lately… (She holds her hand to her ear, sticks her thumb and pinky out like a phone, mouths ‘call me’.)
(Cut.)
JINX: ‘Is Jinx… single?!?’ Oh wow, aren’t you guys nosy! (Jinx looks straight up to camera, Ekko wiggles his eyebrows at the camera in anticipation) I mean, uh… who even wants to know?
EKKO: I mean… I’d be curious…
(She looks at him and smiles.)
JINX: Would you now?
EKKO (smiles cheekily and points to the camera): I think they want to know too.
JINX: Right… (looks to camera.) I’m… not telling.
EKKO: Jinx, c’mon…
JINX (grinning): It’s far more fun to keep everyone guessing. Keeps the old rumour mill pumping!
EKKO: Well, I know.
JINX: Do you?
EKKO: …yeah? (Pause.) Wait, are you—
JINX: Like I said, keeps it pumping!
EKKO: I don’t know if you’re being serious or not.
(Jinx looks into camera and shrugs her shoulders.)
JINX: Who knows? (She points her thumb at Ekko.) Not this guy!
EKKO: (Shaking his head.) You’re definitely messing with me. I can’t deal with you sometimes…
(Ekko gets handed a new question board.)
EKKO: ‘Is Ekko… (rips off paper) in Spiderverse?’
(Jinx starts laughing, Ekko smiles and shakes his head.)
EKKO: I just lost five bucks!
JINX: Five?! I said fifty, mister!
EKKO: (squinting) Fifty?
JINX: Yeah! Yeah, definitely fifty…
EKKO: Well, whichever amount, I just lost some cash, she said this would come up! Okay, so, no, I am not in any of the Spiderverse movies… I understand how people get confused, me and Miles are both… tall. (Jinx laughs again) we’re both devilishly handsome and cool as hell… it’s a totally easy mistake to make. But no, I am not Miles Morales. But a funny thing is I did audition for Into the Spiderverse way back when.
JINX: How did it go?
EKKO: Well, I didn’t get it, obviously, but… you’ll never guess why I was turned down.
JINX: (sits up, very interested) why?
EKKO: They said they wanted someone with more of an… exaggerated swagger.
JINX: (confused laughter) A what now?
EKKO: They wanted someone with more sauce.
JINX: But… you’re so full of sauce!
EKKO: Not back then I wasn’t.
JINX: You have the most sauce!
EKKO: I was a nerdier, scrawnier kid back then, no drip, no style…
JINX: (pinching his cheek) Aww, my little geeky, sauceless, baby Ekko!
EKKO: Yeah, definitely grew into myself and my style in the past few years. But it’s not all bad, I ended up getting the Arcane gig so… (he turns to Jinx and shrugs) not all bad, right?
JINX: (smiles, resting her chin on her hand) things work out, don’t they?
EKKO: For sure. (He goes to rip the next strip off, then looks up at Jinx again) funny thing is, I did actually meet Miles.
JINX: Yeah?
EKKO: Yeah, when I was in New York for the premier of Season 1. We’re both fans of like, each other’s work, he hit me up, we hung out… it was cool.
JINX: Did he do the… (She mimics the Spider-Man pointing meme with a fake shocked face, Ekko laughs.)
EKKO: No… but damn, that would have been gold.
JINX: Thank you, I’m the funniest person in your life.
EKKO: (Smirking) alright don’t… don’t get ahead of yourself, big blue.
EKKO: ‘Is Ekko… an actor?’ I am indeed an actor, but as you’ve seen from this interview, I am so much more than that.
JINX: (counting with her fingers) Hooper, model, SoundCloud rapper…
EKKO: Listen—
JINX: Ultimate swiss army man.
(He looks into camera as he suppresses a smile, shakes his head.)
EKKO: I wish Cait arrested you.
EKKO: ‘Is Ekko… single?’ I am… actually married.
(Jinx’s eyes widen, then her brow furrows, confused. She grabs his hand to check for a ring.)
EKKO: …to my job.
JINX: You disgust me.
EKKO: Committed to the grind.
JINX: If I could I’d explode you with my brain.
EKKO: Woken up every day by the delightful scent of the hustle. But if you want me to answer that question seriously… (Jinx rests her chin on her fist, listening attentively) the answer is that it’s not any of your business. (He smirks) but yes… single as a pringle.
JINX: I was gonna say, I know you are, I’d be super concerned if you had someone and didn’t tell me!
EKKO: I mean, I might have… but you’ll just have to take my word for it that I don’t.
JINX: Always a mystery…
EKKO: You can talk! Why do you care so much anyway?
JINX: (to camera) We spent MONTHS on set together so I’m a little… I mean, your co-stars become your gang. (She looks at Ekko.) I’m protective.
EKKO: So you’d throw hands for me if the situation called for it?
JINX: My lawyer would advise me to not answer that.
EKKO: …alright. Got you good though.
JINX: (holding her hand up to him) Whatever!
(Cut, Jinx and Ekko face camera without the question board.)
EKKO: Thanks for tuning in to the Wired Autocomplete Interview, thanks for putting up with us. (Jinx takes a very theatrical bow) Be sure—
JINX: Hang on let me do that again.
(She stands up, does another theatrical bow and sits back down.)
EKKO: (raises a brow) the encore necessary?
JINX: I’m just making sure it lands right.
EKKO: (laughing) Alright.
JINX: Arcane! Is out now!
EKKO: Both seasons!
JINX: I’m in it!
EKKO: So am I.
JINX: I blow things up! And go through stuff!
EKKO: And I’m the boy saviour! It’s a lot. Catch you guys soon!
JINX: Bye! Buh-bye!
(Both waving to camera.)