Veteran actor Jamie Lee Curtis has given Netflix’s live-action adaptation of One Piece the highest praise.
At SXSW, the Academy-Award-winning actress told Screen Rant that she thinks the live action One Piece is “the greatest adaptation of an anime and a manga into a live action.”
Curtis, who’s a lifelong fan of anime and manga, revealed that she thought about playing the character Dr. Kureha in the adaptation, but wasn’t able to due to scheduling conflicts.
“I didn’t get to do it because it was in South Africa, and I was shooting something else,” she explained. “If it had been Los Angeles or any place nearer, I would have absolutely been able to be in it. But I’m so thrilled Katey [Sagal] did it, and it is fantastic.”
Curtis’ glowing endorsement for the series comes days after its second season hit Netflix. The show, which follows protagonist Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates on their quest to the Grand Line to search for the legendary treasure that gives the show it’s name, debuted on Netflix in 2023.
In other Curtis news, the actress revealed that she didn’t know that when she said yes to shoot David Gordon Green’s Halloween in 2018 that she would be signing on for three more films.
While speaking in a panel at SXSW, Curtis talked about her appreciation for Blumhouse founder Jason Blum for bringing the Halloween movies back to life. “The only reason I am sitting in this chair today is because of Jason. Jason Blum, who runs Blumhouse, is the one who brought back the Halloween movies,” she said.
“If they had come to me and said it’s going to be a trilogy, I don’t think I would have said yes,” she added. “Jason Blum is notoriously cheap. How do you make low-budget movies? You don’t pay people. That’s the model.”
Curtis continued on, explaining she used the situation to her advantage. “While we were editing and doing the mix, David said, ‘You know it’s a trilogy.’ I was like, ‘Uh, no.’ I went to Jason Blum and said, ‘I have some ideas, maybe you could give me a first look deal, just pay me a little money,'” she recalled. “I said to Jason, ‘How about a little development deal?’ And I owed him two ‘Halloween’ movies, so what was he gonna say?”
