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The Hey everyone and welcome to another interview from the One Piece live action cast and crew.

I'm Zach. I'm here with our editor Delaney.

Howdy. And we also have Bottsky, our resident Opla expert. How you doing? Good. And today we have, you may know him as Clahador, but I think more people probably know him for his more, let's call it insidious character. Curro, we have Alexander Maniatis with us. How's it

going, Alexander? I'm great. Thank you. And thank you for having me. How are you guys?

Good. Of course. We're doing well. Everyone doing well.

Yeah. Good, good.

So, yeah, just out of curiosity, how did you, you know, I'll ask the biggest, broadest question first.

What drove you into a career acting?

That is a loaded question.

Yeah, it is.

I think as a child growing up, I loved to entertain.

I think because I was quite the opposite of that.

You know, quiet and introvert.

I used to be either by myself drawing, either making music.

And then I met my best friend in grade one or grade two. So we've been friends now for 33 years.

And he used to sing in this group in primary school and that's how I got into music and essentially performing.

Yeah, and that's what sort of like started this whole thing for me.

Oh, do you start off like doing like music and stuff first, like performing?

Yes.

So my first great big love is music.

So I sing as well and I play the piano and I play the guitar. I used to be in a 70s inspired rock band where I was the vocalist. So that is sort of like one of the big passions.

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