Daniel Dae Kim, Piper Perabo and Reina Hardesty stop by THR's studio at San Diego Comic-Con to talk their new series 'Butterfly.' Kim talks about how his involvement in the show began and Perabo explains why she finds playing a villain "relaxing." Plus, Perabo confirms there has been movement on a 'Coyote Ugly' sequel.
00:00When I came for Hawaii Five-0, I put on a V for Vendetta mask and walked the floor for a day.
00:07Was it fun?
00:07Yeah, it was amazing.
00:08What did you do?
00:09I went from booth to booth because I'm kind of a comic book nerd, too.
00:12So did you buy stuff?
00:14Yeah, I bought some stuff, yeah.
00:22I'm Tiffany Taylor with The Hollywood Reporter here at Comic-Con 2025,
00:26and I'm here with the cast of Butterfly.
00:27Thank you so much for being here.
00:28Thanks for having us.
00:29Thanks for having us.
00:30As I was driving in today, I saw the two of you on the train.
00:34There's this huge wrap.
00:36Have you seen your faces on the train?
00:37Oh, I thought we were sitting next to each other on the train.
00:39You didn't say hello.
00:42We have personally seen this train.
00:45We saw it this morning, right?
00:46Yeah, I'm like obsessed with the train.
00:48It's a butterfly train.
00:49Enough said.
00:50Daniel, for you, it's probably been a long time since you've been at Comic-Con,
00:54or have you been here recently?
00:56What was the last time?
00:57It might have been three or four years ago.
00:59So, it was pre-COVID, I'll tell you that.
01:03But this is, I think, my fifth Comic-Con, and it's good to be back.
01:07Yeah, what's it like returning now as the lead of the show and an executive producer of it?
01:11That's a first.
01:12And, you know, Comic-Con has grown so much since the first time I was here.
01:17So, it's nice that my career has grown right along with it.
01:20And, Piper, same question for you.
01:21What's it like to be back at Comic-Con?
01:24It's cool.
01:24I noticed, like what Dan said, it's really grown since I was here, however many years ago.
01:30But we were just out on the floor signing posters, and it was just so fun.
01:33And, like, the energy.
01:34And when you're really, like, on the floor with the crowds, with the fans, with the people, it's cool.
01:39Dan, how did your involvement in this show come about?
01:42There was a meeting set between me and Stephen Christie, the head of Boom Comics.
01:47And when we sat down, we started talking about ways that we could work together.
01:52And he presented Butterfly to me.
01:54And I thought, this could really work.
01:57I asked him whether or not it would be okay to change some of the setting and the races of some of the characters to fit a story I was interested in telling.
02:05And he was really open to that.
02:07And we were off to the races.
02:10And, Piper, why did you want to be a part of this show?
02:13And what's it like playing a sort of antagonist?
02:17Well, I'd worked with Dan before.
02:18He and I did a movie some years ago and became friends and had a really good time.
02:23So when he said he was doing this, I was really excited to work with him again.
02:26There's a lot of Hollywood-leading men that are a handful.
02:30And it's so great to work with Dan.
02:33He's so smart.
02:33He's so hardworking.
02:34He cares about everybody.
02:35And so it just makes it really fun.
02:37And I'm so excited to play a villain.
02:40I didn't know it's so relaxing to play a villain.
02:43When you're the hero, you have to run everywhere and carry all this shit.
02:49And when you're the villain, you just basically answer the phone and have people assassinated.
02:53So it's very relaxing.
02:55So you've done both.
02:56You've been the hero and the villain.
02:57Yeah.
02:58You play father and daughter in the show.
03:00But you have a very complicated father-daughter relationship.
03:03Reyna, for you, what was it like bringing that to the screen and working with Dan, who is such an icon?
03:08I mean, I had such an incredible time.
03:10Daniel is so generous and so collaborative as an artist.
03:15And also Ken Woodruff and everyone, really, that's behind the show.
03:18Everyone was so collaborative.
03:20And we really got to use our own voices and contribute to our character stories.
03:24But it felt really grounded.
03:25I really appreciated all the conversations that we had about, you know, like our characters passed together.
03:30And it was great.
03:31Since we are here at Comic-Con, we're going to do some Comic-Con bucket questions.
03:36So I'm going to grab the crypto popcorn bucket.
03:39And you all three can grab one.
03:41Oh, this is cute.
03:42What's your favorite Comic-Con memory?
03:44This is my first Comic-Con.
03:45So I feel like literally all this is going to be very important to me and my favorite memory.
03:51But really just, I think, hearing the fans' reactions when they were hearing you sing in the...
03:58Oh my gosh, it was so cute!
04:01In the little preview, it was so cute.
04:03And then people started singing along.
04:04I was like, okay, this is really sweet and everybody's into it.
04:07And yeah, that was special.
04:09That's a Comic-Con vibe, you know?
04:11It's very supportive, very open.
04:13And that's what makes this place special.
04:16Do either of you have a favorite Comic-Con memory to share from over the years?
04:19The year that I was here was the year that Sigourney Weaver put on the Stormtrooper mask
04:26so she could walk the floor.
04:27And I thought that was just so cool.
04:30Obviously, she can't walk the floor.
04:32But then that she's a fan herself and just wanted to do it, I was like, what a badass.
04:37Yeah, I did the same thing.
04:38When I came for Hawaii Five-0, I put on a V for Vendetta mask and walked the floor for a day.
04:45Was it fun?
04:46Yeah, it was amazing.
04:47What did you do?
04:47I went from booth to booth because I'm kind of a comic book nerd, too.
04:51So did you buy stuff?
04:52Yeah, I bought some stuff.
04:53Yeah.
04:54And then I went to some lost booths.
04:57Did you buy stuff of you?
04:58No, but I just asked a lot of questions to the people in the booth.
05:02Cute.
05:03Were you like, no, that's actually not true.
05:05No, I was just like, so who's your favorite character?
05:07Why did you like that person?
05:08What did you think of the ending?
05:10All that kind of stuff.
05:11Do you think they knew it was you and they were like...
05:13I'm sure they didn't.
05:14I'm sure they didn't.
05:16Do you want to read your question next?
05:18What's something that makes you hulk out or your biggest pet peeve?
05:23People who are driving...
05:26Uh-oh.
05:26When you're driving on a street and people who want to merge but have a stop sign,
05:32they roll through the stop sign to get into your lane and then go really slow.
05:37That was so specific.
05:40That's a big pet peeve of mine.
05:41It's like the most Daniel Day-to-answer question I've ever heard.
05:48Whoa.
05:49That's it.
05:50All right.
05:50So if we're ever driving together...
05:52Don't do that.
05:56And then, Piper, what did you pull?
05:57What's your favorite animated movie?
06:01I mean, I like all the old Disney movies.
06:05You know, they're just like Lady and the Tramp, maybe.
06:09It's so romantic, but it has a lot of adventure.
06:13I guess I would say Lady and the Tramp.
06:15Piper, I want to ask you, this is the 25th anniversary of Coyote Ugly this year,
06:20and there's been a lot of talk about sequels over the years,
06:23and you said there were some roadblocks, but what are the latest updates on that?
06:27Could there be a sequel?
06:28Coyote Uglier.
06:30Coyote or Ugly?
06:31It's like Freakiest Friday, but...
06:34There has been some discussion about that.
06:39Some things are being discussed.
06:43Just, I can't really say, but people that were doing it are talking about some stuff.
06:54So the conversations are back on, it sounds like.
06:58Among the necessary, and some people that were like,
07:02well, we don't necessarily need...
07:03They're like, oh, we all want to be in it.
07:04So there's a lot of cooks in the kitchen right now, but things are moving around.
07:10That's exciting.
07:10I'm going to pry a little bit.
07:12Is there a script right now, or a working script?
07:15Sure, I can't say anything about that, but I will say that people that were integral to making it
07:26are in communication about how to do something more.
07:34Well, that is a great tease.
07:36We can't wait to hear more about it and to watch Butterfly.
07:40Thank you all so much for being here today and hanging out.
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