Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan: “Who better than John Cena to make palatable the idea of eating human flesh, you know?”

Vince Gilligan, creator of the Apple TV series Pluribus, discussed John Cena’s cameo in Season 1, where Cena appears in an infomercial promoting the consumption of human flesh. In an interview with Deadline.com, Gilligan explained how Cena embraced the scene…

“We just thought, ‘Who better than John Cena to make palatable the idea of eating human flesh, you know?’ Boy, that guy has a schedule. That guy is a busy guy, and he was nice enough to shoot this thing.”

“He was just the coolest guy. It was one of those things: Who would [be] someone who would delight the audience when he or she popped up to explain why humanity now lives off of protein from human bodies? It’s such a non sequitur, and yet, in a way, it’s not because he just has this personality and [with] everything that he does you find him likable and you find him trustworthy; you think, ‘Man, I’d like to have a beer with that guy.’ So why shouldn’t he explain why human-derived protein is the way to go for humanity now? He actually made it sound pretty reasonable, and that was the intention, and it just made us laugh when we thought of having him do it. Luckily, he said yes.”