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The One Piece Podcast

OPLA! #9: “Nojiko’s Children” (Chioma Umeala)

The One Piece Podcast

Maji Media

Tv Reviews, Animation & Manga, Leisure, Tv & Film

4.7609 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This is OPLA! Our limited-run series One Piece live action podcast series. Each week we bring you interviews with some of the talented individuals behind Netflix’s One Piece! This season, we talk to the actors who brought the characters from Eiichiro Oda's One Piece to life. Each week we talk to these amazingly talented individuals from across the world, and peer into what it was like to step into their role. Interview This week, we have Chioma Antoinette Umeala, the actress who plays Nojiko in Netflix's One Piece.  Chioma also plays Tara in The Woman King and Ayo on Isono. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Hello, everyone and welcome to another awesome interview of our series, Opla,

0:34.9

the One Piece Live Action podcast about the Netflix series, One Piece.

0:41.6

I'm Zach with me, my editor Delaney.

0:45.5

What's up? Can we make that the full subtitle now, Zach?

0:48.7

No. It's too long. It just won't work.

0:57.9

One of our hosts on the podcast sam welcome sam hello and our guest today chioma umela welcome chyoma hello thank you for having me

1:07.9

thank you so much for coming on uh Yeah, we're, first of all, big fans here, I think that's safe to say, right?

1:17.6

I hope. We're happy to have you on.

1:22.6

Usually I start with like a very broad question, that being just how did you find your way into

1:29.8

becoming an actress oh the most original um I know that's the one no I get more original

1:39.0

we go on I start out with my least no get his ass it's. It's fine. I have like a very, um,

1:45.4

simply teasing kind of humor, but, uh, to answer your question.

1:49.0

Okay, great.

1:50.8

Um, I got into acting, how do I get into acting?

1:54.0

So, um, in my primary school, which is,

1:56.7

where would you call it for you guys, elementary?

1:59.1

Um, uh, my primary school had like a very big music

2:03.1

program and for the longest time i always knew i wanted to do something like odd related um

2:08.4

like since i was three or something and so then i was like really into the music program at school

2:13.1

and um we perform we do showcases uh but i was always a little bit shy when it came to performing with music. I don't know if it was just because it's me. Like I'm being vulnerable. Like I'm the one playing the song. I don't know what it is. But anyways, getting into high school, there wasn't any, there weren't any, there wasn't a music department, but there was a very big drama department and so it was from

2:34.9

their way it kind of felt like oh this is this is something that I feel like I can because yes I'm still

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