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Adam Holmes

One Piece’s Sanji Actor Shared What Made Him Start ‘Sobbing Like A Little Boy’ While Filming Season 1

Taz Skylar playing Sanji in an orange shirt in One Piece Season 2.

We’re a month out from One Piece Season 2 debuting on the 2026 TV schedule, reuniting fans with the live-action takes on the Straw Hat Pirates for the first time in over two and a half years. That includes Taz Skylar’s Sanji, whom was the last member of the crew to be introduced in Season 1. Despite getting the least amount of screen time compared to the other Straw Hat actors in that first batch of episodes, Skylar still had plenty to do, and there was one particular moment in particular when filming One Piece that the actor admitted led to him “sobbing like a little boy.”

In the lead-up to Season 2 arriving to Netflix subscription holders, Taz Skylar has been posting a series of videos on his YouTube page chronicling his experience working on Season 1. One of the more recent videos has him talking about filming Sanji’s fight with Kuroobi, one of Arlong’s main henchmen. Skylar recalled that when they shot Sanji landing that last kick that sent the Fishman flying into a wall, he was on a wire connected to a harness through something called a pick point. He continued:

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