Charithra Chandran Cast as Miss Wednesday for One Piece Live-Action
Netflix has announced the casting of Bridgerton star Charithra Chandran as Miss Wednesday/Nefertari Vivi for the upcoming second season of the live-action One Piece TV series. The second season is currently in production and is set to debut in 2025.
© Netflix, One Piece/Tomorrow Studios
Chandran joins an extensive number of new cast additions for season two that include:
• Sendhil Ramamurthy as Nefertari Cobra
• Katey Sagal as Dr. Kureha
• Mark Harelik as Dr. Hiriluk
• Callum Kerr as Smoker
• Julia Rehwald as Tashigi
• Rob Colletti as Wapol
• Ty Keogh as Dalton
• David Dastmalchian as Galdino/Mr. 3
• Jazzara Jaslyn as Mikita/Ms. Valentine
• Camrus Johnson as Gem/Mr. 5
• Daniel Lasker as Mr. 9.
• Clive Russell as Crocus
• Werner Coetser as Dorry
• Brendan Murray as Brogy
Meanwhile, the show’s main cast from season one includes:
• Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy
• Mackenyu as Roronoa Zoro
• Emily Rudd as Nami
• Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp
• Taz Skylar as Sanji
• Morgan Davies as Koby
• Vincent Regan as Monkey D. Garp
• Jeff Ward as Buggy the Clown
Joe Tracz (Percy Jackson and the Olympians co-executive producer) joined the second season as a new writer, executive producer, and co-showrunner with Matt Owens (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Luke Cage writer). Steve Maeda, who developed the series with Owens and served as co-showrunner in the first season, will remain as an executive producer.
Netflix’s One Piece live-action series is a co-production with Tomorrow Studios (Cowboy Bebop live action, Snowpiercer). The first season contained eight total episodes and was released on Netflix on August 31, 2023.
© Netflix, One Piece/Tomorrow Studios
Eiichiro Oda’s original One Piece manga series was first launched in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on July 22, 1997 under the Jump Comics label. A total of 109 tankobon volumes have been released as of July 2024.
The manga inspired a 1999 OVA from Production I.G and a long-running TV anime adaptation from Toei Animation that has been airing since 1999. The latter surpassed the 1000th episode mark on November 21, 2021. The franchise also inspired numerous anime films, stage plays, video games, drama CDs, card games, art and guidebooks, and more.
Source: One Piece Netflix Official Twitter
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