The Bold and the Beautiful Performer of the Week: Lisa Yamada as Luna Nozawa

On The Bold and the Beautiful this week, Lisa Yamada portrayed Luna with her emotions going in so many directions, it was like we were watching several characters in one — and for that, we have named her Soap Central’s Performer of the Week.

Lisa Yamada on The Bold and the Beautiful

Lisa Yamada came to The Bold and the Beautiful as a meek, somewhat shy version of Luna Nozawa. As the character developed in a relationship with RJ Forrester (Joshua Hoffman), the virginal sainthood of Luna began to diminish as we guessed there was more to the character (or her lack thereof) than we orginally thought. But Yamada surprised us all when Luna turned out to be a cold-hearted killer. Becoming the character viewers love to hate is no easy feat, but Yamada knows how to turn on the waterworks for sympathy as well as does the threatening glare. This week was no exception.

Yamada’s Luna crossed more boundaries as she texted Will Spencer (Crew Morrow) from the comfort of the scene of the crime. Steps from where she murdered two men, Yamada sat comfortably at the bar where she was banned from being, sending flirtatious messages to a guy that doesn’t want anything to do with her. Yamada’s wicked grin as she pursued her own interests only faded when her grandmother, Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown) entered the scene. Yamada stared blankly at Brown as she was warned to stay away from those who didn’t want her in her life but shrugged off the advice.

It didn’t take long for Will’s girlfriend, Electra Forrester (Laneya Grace) to show up and confront Luna. Yamada perfectly executed the scene. She snidely shamed Electra for being insecure, while warning her she wasn’t messing with a high school mean girl waiting at her boyfriend’s locker to steal him away. Yamada kept a steady, confident smile on her face while she coldly reminded her foe that she was out of her league. Electra claimed not to be scared of her, but viewers could feel Yamada’s energy through the screen: at any given second, Luna was about to strike like a scorpion’s tail.

Sheila separated Luna and Electra, but her conversation with her granddaughter took a heartwrenching turn. Yamada went from snide and daring to vulnerable and pleading in a blink of an eye the moment that Luna thought she was being rejected. Her tearful voice cracked as she clutched onto her grandmother and begged her not to send her away matched as her face turned to looks of deep concern, like going from the monster within brimming to a scared little girl.

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We have no doubt that Luna will reach her breaking point this week, and lives will be in danger. What that means for other characters remains to be seen, but as her storyline hits another climax, we can count on Yamada’s performance to be top-notch.

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