Netflix has introduced some big-name additions to the season 2 casts of its live-action Avatar: The Final Airbender and One Piece variations.
Revealed as a part of Netflix Geeked Week 2024‘s dwell occasion, the streaming large confirmed that three actors – one for Avatar: The Final Airbender season 2, and two for One Piece season 2 – will be a part of these exhibits’ forged rosters for his or her subsequent chapters.
Who’s Avatar: The Final Airbender’s Toph? And who’s enjoying them?
On the Avatar entrance, US actress Miya Cech, who some readers may acknowledge from The Santa Clauses on Disney Plus and/or Netflix’s Beef, aka one of many finest exhibits of 2023, has been employed to play fan-favorite character Toph. Within the animated unique, the blind earthbender – one of the vital naturally gifted and highly effective of her era, we’ll have you understand – joins Aang and the remainder of Group Avatar on their quest to place an finish to the Hearth Nation’s quest to grow to be the world’s tyrannical rulers.
Cech’s hiring wasn’t the one Avatar-related announcement made by one of many world’s finest streaming providers throughout Geeked Week Dwell. Netflix additionally confirmed that manufacturing had formally began on season 2, with principal images starting simply six months after Netflix introduced two extra seasons of its Avatar: The Final Airbender live-action retelling. It is unclear if the collection’ remaining two installments will probably be filmed back-to-back, however the revelation that season 2 has entered full manufacturing suggests they will not.
Who’re Miss All Sunday and Mr. 0 in One Piece? And which actors will painting them?
As for One Piece, Netflix confirmed that its adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s beloved manga collection, which has additionally been become one of many finest anime, has added two extra names to its in depth forged record. Lera Abova and Geeked Week Dwell host Joe Manganiello are its latest hires, with the pair set to play Miss All Sunday and Mr. 0/Crocodile within the one of many finest Netflix exhibits‘ sophomore outing.
Abova, who starred in Peacock comedy collection Pitch Good: Bumper in Berlin, will play All Sunday, whose actual identify is Nico Robins and who’s the vp of the Baroque Works, a covert legal syndicate arrange with the only goal of destabilizing after which conquering the Arabasta Kingdom. Manganiello, whose credit vary embrace 2002’s Spider-Man film, True Blood, How I Met Your Mom, and a short cameo as Deathstroke within the now defunct DC Prolonged Universe (DCEU), will play the Baroque Works’ mob boss/warlord.
Paradoxically, followers already knew that Abova and Manganiello could be a part of season 2’s forged. Yesterday (September 19), Netflix’s PR workforce by chance leaked the pair’s hiring on its in-house Tudum web site. The knowledge was eliminated not lengthy after the error was noticed, however not earlier than What’s on Netflix observed and reported on the faux-pas.
These weren’t the one One Piece-focused unveilings that had followers salivating at Geeked Week Dwell and at house, although. Per the YouTube video above, Netflix additionally launched a behind-the-scenes recording of season 2’s first desk learn, which teased the arrival of beloved character Chopper. With Netflix strongly suggesting that season 2 of One Piece season 2 would cowl the Arabasta Saga from its manga namesake, we already had an inkling that Chopper would present up in some unspecified time in the future. This, although, confirms the half-reindeer, half-human hybrid will make his grand entrance subsequent season.
As a part of an earlier Geeked Week reveal, Jeff Ward, who performs the villainous Buggy the Clown, invited followers on a transient behind-the-scenes tour of One Piece season 2’s varied units, too, earlier than hinting that the collection would return someday in 2025. If each exhibits return subsequent 12 months, it might be one other profitable 12-month interval for Netflix on the long-lasting anime adaptation entrance.
