{"id":165089,"date":"2025-11-06T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/165089\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:06:09","slug":"one-piece-season-3-casts-cobra-kais-xolo-mariduena-as-portgas-d-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/165089\/","title":{"rendered":"One Piece Season 3 Casts Cobra Kai’s Xolo Maridue\u00f1a As Portgas D. Ace"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Xolo Maridue\u00f1a, best known for his\u00a0role as Miguel Diaz on “Cobra Kai,” is staying put at Netflix.<\/p>\n

The “Parenthood” alum has been cast as\u00a0Portgas D. Ace in Season 3 of “One Piece,” which begins production later this year\u00a0in Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n

He’s the second major addition to the live-action adaptation announced this week, following word that\u00a0Cole Escola (“At Home With Amy Sedaris”) has joined Season 3 as non-binary character Bon Clay, a “theatrical assassin who turns combat into art.”<\/p>\n

“One Piece: Into the Grand Line” \u2014 aka Season 2 \u2014 premieres Tuesday, March 10.<\/p>\n

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* Matt Bomer (“Fellow Travelers”) has been cast as a series regular in Greg Berlanti’s Hulu pilot “Foster Dade,” Deadline<\/a> reports. Based on the\u00a0Nash Jenkins novel “Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos,” the potential series is described as “a sophisticated mystery set at an East Coast boarding school that explores privilege, scandal, sexuality and masculinity amid the rise of social media, millennial anxiety and pharmaceuticals.” Bomer will play Alex Tierney, “the kind of literature teacher who makes you believe books can change your life.”<\/p>\n

* Taraji P. Henson (“Empire”) is attached to star in Peacock’s “The Accomplice,” based on the novel by\u00a0Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Aaron Phillip Clark. Currently in the development stage, the potential adaptation casts Henson as “Nia Adams, a fearless Texas Ranger on the trail of master thief Desmond Bell, whose latest target is one of America’s wealthiest families,” per\u00a0Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Netflix’s “The Diplomat” has promoted\u00a0Nana Mensah (aka\u00a0White House Chief of Staff Billie Appiah) to series regular ahead of Season 4, Deadline<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

* Fellow Netflix drama “Ginny & Georgia” has added the following recurring guest stars to Season 4: Ali Skovbye (“Firefly Lane”) as Rainn, Kataem O’Connor (“The Way Home”) as Isaiah and\u00a0Sunny Mabrey (“The Night Agent”) as Daisy.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Michiel Huisman (“Game of Thrones”) has boarded Season 3 of AMC’s Anne Rice drama “Mayfair Witches.” According to\u00a0Variety<\/a>, he’ll play Michael, “a carpenter who built an inn that he runs himself. Though he hides a dark secret, his carefully constructed life begins to crumble when he falls in love with Rowan Mayfair (Alexandra Daddario).”<\/p>\n


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