Fans of the Marvel series Loki are excited about the new season that kicked off this week. We get to return to the time-traveling storyline of the God of Mischief, as well as his new friends at the TVA, including Owen Wilson as Mobius, and Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie, but we also get to see some new faces, including that of beloved Academy Award-winning actor Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once). His character, O.B., works in the basement of the Time Variance Authority, and he’s also the hidden brains behind it, which in and of itself sounds a bit like the young inventor character Quan played in The Goonies, Data.
As it turns out, Quan’s costume in the series also pays homage to Data. In a recent interview with ComicBook, the show’s costume designer, Christine Wada, talked about working with Quan, and said:
“Oh my god, it’s just like he brings a jumpsuit life to life. And it was really fun because he talked about, well, the first fittings, or maybe it was a phone call, he talked about patches because Data had patches and he was like, ‘What about patches? It’d be so fun.’ And it was really, but then it quickly just became OB. Now just he brings so much, I mean, you could put him in a paper bag and he would bring life to it.”
She went on to say:
“He’s so sweet, but he also is very dedicated and does his homework and really talks about whether, ‘Should this feel a little more vintage?’ I mean, we always wanted it to feel like the ’30s or ’40s, so [his costume] was pulled from a vintage jumpsuit from that era.”
Season 2 Episode 1 of Loki is streaming now on Disney+. Have you watched it yet? What did you think?