Det er stadig uklart, hvor langt vi når med Luffy og hans venner i anden sæson af One Piece live action-serien på Netflix. Én ting er dog sikkert: vi bevæger os nu ind i de store ligaer. Den muntre besætning af piratdrømmere gør sig klar til at sejle ind i Grand Line - det legendariske hav, hvor den sagnomspundne One Piece-skat angiveligt befinder sig, og hvor den, der finder den, vil blive udråbt til piraternes konge. Men det ser ud til, at de nuværende fem medlemmer af Straw Hat Crew får brug for lidt ekstra hjælp.
For i One Piece sæson 2 bliver verden større - og det samme gør produktionen, som vokser både i skala og i antallet af tilbagevendende karakterer. Og det var netop om denne del, at vi fik en særlig snak med Taz Skylar, den kanariske skuespiller, der spiller Sanji i serien. Taz tog sig tid under San Diego Comic-Con i Malaga til at tale med os i et interview, som du kan se med undertekster nedenfor.
Ud over at tale om, hvordan showrunnerne fandt den perfekte opskrift på at bringe manganime til live action-formatet, blev Skylar naturligvis spurgt, hvad han kunne afsløre om den kommende sæson, der får premiere i 2026. Som forventet holdt han kortene tæt til kroppen, men han understregede, at succesen med første sæson også har lagt et vist pres på holdet.
"I think for us, the first time around, it was like a very small microcosm, because it was just the five of us," begyndte han. "Some people came and went, but we were the only ones who stayed for the whole show."
"And even though my character didn't appear in the first season until a few episodes later, I was there from the beginning. I was training. I was one of the Straw Hats. We were all coming together during that same period."
Faktisk blev han så optaget af Sanjis karakter, at han endte med at blive seriens uofficielle kok under optagelserne. "Jeg lærte at lave mad. Jeg lavede mad til settet."
"I was training. Everyone else was filming. We were talking about what was going on. We were getting closer to each other, but we were the only ones who had a bond at the time. And then, the second time around, there were a lot of new people who had come into the circle who were going to be present for, if not the whole duration, then most of it.
It suddenly became clear to us that now our job was, in a way, to include everyone and facilitate that space where everyone could feel included in a family."
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