Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos puts the casting of One Piece’s Luffy (played by Iñaki Godoy) among the most difficult jobs in the company’s history, putting him side-by-side with notoriously tough jobs like Walter Scobell’s young Ryan Reynolds from The Adam Project or Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s Death in The Sandman.Sarandos revealed at Netflix’s Q3 2023 earnings interview that One Piece went #1 in 84 countries, which was “something Stranger Things couldn’t do, that Wednesday couldn’t do,” before identifying a core reason for this in Luffy’s casting. “Iñaki Godoy, who stars in the show, it was — one of the most difficult casting challenges in the history of our original programming was who’s gonna play Monkey D. Luffy,” Sarandos said.”And he was right under our nose, right in our talent family,” he adds. “We discovered him a couple of years ago and had him in this great show in our Mexican series called Who Killed Sara?, and then we were able to cast him in this, and now he’s a global superstar. So this is that kind of thing you could do well, a thing that’s hard to copy and gives us kind of competitive running room from our competitors, being able to do that more and more.”RELATED: One Piece Showrunner Wants to Bring on These Marvel Stars for Season 2
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos puts the casting of One Piece‘s Luffy (played by Iñaki Godoy) among the most difficult jobs in the company’s history, putting him side-by-side with notoriously tough jobs like Walter Scobell’s young Ryan Reynolds from The Adam Project or Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s Death in The Sandman.
Sarandos revealed at Netflix’s Q3 2023 earnings interview that One Piece went #1 in 84 countries, which was “something Stranger Things couldn’t do, that Wednesday couldn’t do,” before identifying a core reason for this in Luffy’s casting. “Iñaki Godoy, who stars in the show, it was — one of the most difficult casting challenges in the history of our original programming was who’s gonna play Monkey D. Luffy,” Sarandos said.
“And he was right under our nose, right in our talent family,” he adds. “We discovered him a couple of years ago and had him in this great show in our Mexican series called Who Killed Sara?, and then we were able to cast him in this, and now he’s a global superstar. So this is that kind of thing you could do well, a thing that’s hard to copy and gives us kind of competitive running room from our competitors, being able to do that more and more.”
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