{"id":266155,"date":"2025-11-06T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266155\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:49:13","slug":"xolo-mariduena-lands-key-one-piece-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266155\/","title":{"rendered":"Xolo Mariduena Lands Key &#8220;One Piece&#8221; Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/xolo-mariduena-lands-key-one-piece-role.jpg\" data-caption=\"Netflix, Toei\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/xolo-mariduena-lands-key-one-piece-role.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"xolo-mariduena-lands-key-one-piece-role\"\/><\/a>Netflix, Toei<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCobra Kai\u201d and \u201cBlue Beetle\u201d star Xolo Maridue\u00f1a has landed one of the biggest roles in Netflix\u2019s live-action adaptation of\u201dOne Piece\u201d to date.<\/p>\n<p>In the pirate fantasy adventure\u2019s third season, Maridue\u00f1a is set to portray Portgas D. Ace.  Ace is a high-ranking member of a powerful pirate crew and eater of a fire Devil Fruit.<\/p>\n<p>He also has deep ties to Monkey D. Luffy\u2019s past and becomes a very pivotal character in the seasons to come. Maridue\u00f1a has long been fan-cast in the role, so the casting comes as little surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The character is known for his shredded body, which is often on display as his outfit generally consists of dark shorts and boots, a bright orange hat, and little else, bar some accoutrements.<\/p>\n<p>He marks the second major new casting for the show\u2019s third season, following Cole Escola being cast as flamboyant pirate Bon Clay.<\/p>\n<p>Production on the third season will begin by the end of this month in Cape Town, South Africa.  The second season is set to air March 10th 2026.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Introducing Portgas D. Ace\u2026<\/p>\n<p>XOLO MARIDUE\u00d1A IS JOINING ONE PIECE SEASON 3!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/arysP73sOR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/arysP73sOR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Netflix (@netflix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netflix\/status\/1986063452599635988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Netflix<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix, Toei \u201cCobra Kai\u201d and \u201cBlue Beetle\u201d star Xolo Maridue\u00f1a has landed one of the biggest roles in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-266155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bigslider","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}