One Piece Season 2 premiered on the 2026 TV schedule a month ago, and by the end of it, the Straw Hat Pirates had recruited a new member. Just like in the manga and anime created by Eiichiro Oda, Tony Tony Chopper, the walking and talking reindeer, agreed to become the crew’s doctor once the Drum Island story arc wrapped up. Superman and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’s Mikaela Hoover voices Chopper in the Netflix subscription-exclusive live-action One Piece adaptation, and CinemaBlend learned the reason why the actress crouched so much when she was in the recording booth for this project.
Ahead of my interview with Hoover, I found a One Piece behind-the-scenes video showing the work that went into bringing Chopper to life. That included some peeks at Hoover delivering her dialogue, and it immediately caught my attention how she was crouched in front of the microphone. When I asked if this helped her get into Chopper’s mindset, she answered:
