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Richard Bridgland took care of all the sets for the Netflix event series. He is the production designer for the shoot and he tells franceinfo exclusively behind the scenes of the adaptation of the best-selling manga in the world.
The live-action adaptation, with real actors, of One Piece on Netflix has been a real success since its release on August 31. The manga, with more than 500 million copies sold, ranked, two weeks after its release, in the top 10 most viewed series in nearly 100 countries and number 1 in 46 of them.
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The series’ production designer, Richard Bridgland, spoke exclusively to franceinfo to look back on the filming of the series. He says in particular that he “didn’t know One Piece before working on the series and it was his children who introduced him to the universe“He tells us that all the boats and sets in the series were built to make them look as realistic as possible.”both for the actors and for the spectators“.
Several days of reflection
Richard Bridgland also looks back on the long work to make the set elements imagined for a manga real… With an anecdote: the production designer confides having asked Eiichiro Oda, the creator of the manga, if there was… electricity in One Piece. The latter did not immediately know how to answer him, before finally admitting to him: “Yes, there is electricity in the manga“, after a few days of reflection on the question.
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Finally, Richard Bridgland tells us that all the food in the series is real, right down to the famous “devil fruit made with marshmallow and almond paste“.