‘One Piece’ Season 3 Adds Cole Escola as Bon Clay

Cole Escola has joined the cast of Netflix‘s “One Piece” for Season 3.

They will play Bon Clay in the show, which is a live-action adaptation of the manga series of the same name. The official character description reads, “A master of performance and precision, Bon Clay is as dangerous as they are dazzling — a theatrical assassin who turns combat into art.

“One Piece” was renewed for a third season in August, though Season 2 has yet to premiere, having been set for March 10. The series follows Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) “on his quest to find the legendary fabled treasure, the One Piece, and become King of the Pirates,” per the official logline. In Season 2, “Luffy and the Straw Hats set sail for the extraordinary Grand Line—a legendary stretch of sea where danger and wonder await at every turn. As they journey through this unpredictable realm in search of the world’s greatest treasure, they’ll encounter bizarre islands and a host of formidable new enemies.”

Escola is the writer of the play “Oh, Mary!,” which opened on Broadway in 2024 and is still running. They starred in the show for several months as Mary Todd Lincoln and won a Tony for best actor in a play. On screen, they are best known for starring as Chip Wreck in Seasons 3 and 4 of “Search Party” on HBO Max, with other credits including TruTV’s “At Home With Amy Sedaris” (2017-2020) and Hulu’s “Difficult People” (2015-2017). They also served as a writer for “Ziwe,” which ran on Showtime from 2021 to 2022, and appeared in multiple episodes.

“One Piece” is produced by Netflix and ITV’s Tomorrow Studios in partnership with Shueisha, which published the original manga series. Joe Tracz and Ian Stokes serve as showrunners on Season 3, and executive produce with Eiichiro Oda, who wrote the manga series, as well as Tomorrow’s Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements; Tetsu Fujimura; Chris Symes; Christoph Schrewe; and Steven Maeda.