Audiences may recognize actor Taz Skylar as the charming Sanji on Netflix’s One Piece adaptation, but he shows a completely different side of his range in the new action movie Cleaner. In the film, Skylar portrays Noah, a member of an eco-terrorist group that crashes a corrupt energy company’s special gala event. While the group’s leader, Marcus (Clive Owen) is more reserved and does not want to resort to violence, Noah can be unhinged and unpredictable, making him an even greater threat. Skylar found it a fun role to portray, and in some ways, it was even a cathartic experience for him.

“[T]here’s so many elements of Noah’s rhetoric that are grounded in logic and that have a very profound point to make, that it felt like I suddenly had the license to say a lot of them and say them in a very visceral, very loud, very forward way,” Skylar said in an interview with ComicBook when asked how playing Noah impacted him.