Ever since Charithra Chandran was announced as a new cast member for One Piece season two, fans around the world wondered how she would look with blue hair for her role as Vivi in the show. We got the answer when the first teasers for the season dropped in the summer of 2025, but now Chandran is pulling back the curtain even more and letting us in on how Vivi’s wig came to be.

In a new cover story for Teen Vogue, Chandran appears alongside Iñaki Godoy, who plays Monkey D. Luffy, the leader of the Straw Hat Pirates in Netflix’s One Piece. During our interview, Chandran reveals she nicknamed the wig “Vicky” or “Victoria” on good days and “Sticky-Icky-Tricky Vicky” when she’s “being naughty.” (For those wondering, Miss Wednesday’s jacket was also christened as Vivian.) Here, she also opens up further about the process of getting her wig custom-made before she even set sail for Cape Town, where the show is filmed.

Calling in from her trailer in the middle of getting the wig installed for her next shoot, Chandran reveals that the process of fitting Vicky to her head began an ocean away. She had her head wrapped and measured for the custom wig in London, where she resides when she’s not shooting the show, and it wasn’t until she got to set that she got to try it on for the first time.

Chandran shares that she was “really nervous” at the prospect of even having to have blue hair. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve never dyed my hair [and] I’m going to have blue hair. What is this going to look like?” she says, but she wanted to get a peek at what the wig would look like as soon as she got the measurements. “I was like, ‘Oh, do you have any pictures?’ She was like, ‘No, no, no. They had an external person do it,’” she recounts as her team plucks individual hairs from Vicky’s hairline.

All of Chandran’s reservations about the wig dissipated as soon as she met her team in Cape Town. “I [saw] how much thought and consideration they had put in, and then how much work had gone into it after meeting me [and] I felt so good,” she says. “And then what was crazy is how quickly I got used to it. How quickly I was like, ‘Oh yeah,’ and how normal it all felt.”