‘One Piece’ Director Emma Sullivan on Keeping the Adventure Series Grounded

Netflix’s live-action series One Piece, as an adaptation of the long-running manga and anime of the same name, has its fair share of pressures attached to it.

Fortunately for director Emma Sullivan, her experience with a similarly beloved fantasy-adventure, Doctor Who, meant she was up for tackling the adventures of Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), Zoro (Mackenyu), Nami (Emily Rudd), Usopp (Jacob Romero), and Sanji (Taz Skylar), and in her two episodes specifically, digging into the characters of Usopp and Zoro.

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