Iñaki Godoy, Taz Skylar, and more stars take EW behind the scenes of “Into the Grand Line.”

One Piece cast members tour season 2 sets, including Laboon’s insides and Sanji’s explosive wax house scene (exclusive)

Iñaki Godoy, Taz Skylar, and more stars take EW behind the scenes of "Into the Grand Line."

By Nick Romano

Nick Romano is a senior editor at ** with 15 years of journalism experience covering entertainment. His work previously appeared in *Vanity Fair*, Vulture, IGN, and more.

EW's editorial guidelines

March 10, 2026 12:00 p.m. ET

Leave a Comment

- Cast members of *One Piece: Into the Grand Line* tour the major season 2 sets.

- Iñaki Godoy heads inside Laboon the whale and all the wrecked ships and skeletons that go with it.

- Taz Skylar breaks down his explosive sprinting scene outside the wax house.

**Warning: This article contains spoilers from *One Piece: Into the Grand Line*.**

*One Piece* star Iñaki Godoy goes inside the belly of the beast. In this case, that beast is Laboon the whale.

On set of season 2 in Cape Town, South Africa, cast members give ** an inside look at the major sets, including the innards of the "Big Friendly" known as Laboon. As the guy behind captain of the Straw Hats, Monkey D. Luffy, Godoy didn't spend much time inside Laboon. Unlike his costars' characters, his was spent largely in the lighthouse of Laboon's human caretaker, Crocus (Clive Russell).

The set, which Godoy points out was largely filmed at night for visual effects purposes, is a colorful graveyard of corpses, wrecked ships, and other remains of those who failed to enter the Grand Line.

Laboon the whale on 'One Piece' season 2.

Courtesy of Netflix

Mackenyu (Roronoa Zoro), Jacob Romero (Usopp), Taz Skylar (Sanji), and Emily Rudd (Nami) also feature in the latest edition of EW's On Set, a video series that goes on location to explore your favorite shows and movies.

Mackenyu takes us to Loguetown and Ipponmatsu's Arms Shop, where his character recreates a scene from the anime involving a cursed sword. Romero then heads to the land of the giants, while Rudd goes inside Nami's room and wardrobe.

'One Piece' canon episodes: A guide to the anime's main storyline and the filler arcs you can skip

'One Piece' season 2 first-look photos and teaser reveal early season 3 renewal

Skylar concludes with a breakdown of an explosive sequence that involves a machine gun-firing otter attacking Sanji from atop a flying vulture outside the wax house belonging to Mr. 3 (David Dastmalchian). The actor explains how the crew rigged the runway with bomb pods buried in the ground.

"My note and my action was so clear," Skylar says, explaining how he was supposed to turn around and sprint down a dirt path following the first explosion.

Taz Skylar on set of 'One Piece' season 2.

Casey Crafford/Netflix

***Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our ******EW Dispatch newsletter******.***

"All the explosions were going to detonate behind me, but as soon as I take two steps the entire row of explosions just started going off," he recalls. "I knew I couldn't stop, I knew that the point at which all the things the director had said could go wrong *went* wrong. I had no choice but to just keep running."

And it gets more chaotic from there.

All episodes of *One Piece: Into the Grand Line* are available to stream on Netflix.

- Sci-Fi & Fantasy Shows

Original Article on Source

Source: “EW Sci-Fi”