One Piece Season 2 New Cast Revealed and More Info

The official One Piece account announced a three-day countdown revealing the new cast members for Season 2 of the One Piece live-action adaptation by Netflix. Recently, the casting of various One Piece characters from the Loguetown, Whiskey Peak, Little Garden, and Drum Island arcs were already confirmed. 

Thank you accompanying our new cast announcement over the past four days.

Here is a summary of what has already been announced.#OP_globalinfo#OnePieceNetflix #OnePieceLiveAction pic.twitter.com/QzEOtWa1Ui

— ONE PIECE スタッフ【公式】/ Official (@Eiichiro_Staff) August 23, 2024

From August 21 to 23, we received confirmation of four new actors joining the cast for Season 2 of the One Piece anime adaptation. On August 21st, it was announced that Mark Harelik would play Dr. Hiriluk, and Katey Segal would play Dr. Kureha.

Previously, the actress Jaime-Lee Curtis, an avid fan of One Piece, expressed interest in portraying Dr. Kureha but weeks prior to the official casting, it was confirmed that Jaime-Lee Curtis would not be featured at all in the adaptation.

Jamie Lee Curtis will lobby for the role of Dr. Kureha once the strike against AMPTP is settled. #OnePieceNetflix pic.twitter.com/zjcix8XQ1a

— ONE PIECE NETFLIX FAN (@OP_Netflix_Fan) September 22, 2023

Jamie Lee Curtis will not be playing the role of Doctor Kureha in One Piece Live Action.

Becky Clements (EP): "She loves the show. She has too many films and TV shows that she’s going into production on so our production dates aren’t going to work. She definitely wanted to do it… pic.twitter.com/KKRWLxvN7L

— ONE PIECE NETFLIX FAN (@OP_Netflix_Fan) July 19, 2024

On August 22nd, we received confirmation that Sendhil Ramamurthy would play Nefertari Cobra, the King of Arabasta. On August 23rd, it is revealed that Miss Wednesday, or Princess Nefertari Vivi would be played by Charithra Chandran. Both actors are noted to be from India.

Charithra Chandran would also relay a message upon the confirmation of her playing the role of Vivi.

Charithra Chandran's message after being chosen to play Vivi in the OnePiece Live-Action.pic.twitter.com/qDFO64jS2R

— Pew (@pewpiece) August 23, 2024

However, some fans have pointed out an issue with the casting, that being the preference of Indian actors over Arab ones. That is because the characters Vivi and Cobra are royalty from the Arabasta Kingdom and Arabasta is noted to be inspired by Ancient Egypt. India is also referenced as a partial inspiration.

I honestly wish they had cast Arab actors for Cobra and Vivi since Oda clearly drew inspiration from Ancient Egypt for their characters, but it feels like no one really cares in Netflix pic.twitter.com/bjTYVUBxlC

— Pew (@pewpiece) August 22, 2024

as an Arab, Vivi and Arabasta were important to us. It feels personal because I saw myself in her. There's already very minimal to non-existent positive Arab representation in the media, you can't blame us for being rightfully upset at this being taken away from us.

— dee 🍓✨ VGEN comms open (@episodeofdee) August 22, 2024

Additionally, Matt Owens, one of the showrunners, revealed that he specifically fought for the story of the manga to remain intact. The executives initially wanted Season 2 to cover the entire Arabasta Saga, ending the story on Arabasta but Matt insisted on maintaining the plan to stop at Drum Island.

Matt Owens fought to keep Season 2’ of onepiece live action story intact. Execs wanted to skip some arcs and end with Alabasta, but Matt pushed back and kept the full plan.

(source : YouTuber "Nuxanor" ) pic.twitter.com/HJ6aJ1IzE0

— Pew (@pewpiece) August 23, 2024

One Piece is a hit manga and anime series pioneered by Eiichiro Oda, telling the story of the young pirate captain Monkey D. Luffy and his adventures into the Grand Line and New World to find the legendary treasure “One Piece” and become Pirate King.

You can watch the One Piece Live-Action on Netflix.

Source: Twitter