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

The Bold and the Beautiful's Luna Nozawa is back among the land of the living — and hasn't learned a thing. However, Lisa Yamada has proven that she's learned who her character really is over the last year and showed all of Luna's delusional layers in just a handful of brief scenes this week.

The hardest acting job of all

Soap stars have always said that lying still when your character is supposed to be unconscious and/or comatose is one of their hardest tasks. They can barely move or breathe while emotional dialogue is taking place all around them. That's what Yamada spent the last few weeks doing on-screen before Luna's eyes finally fluttered open.

Yamada performed Luna's great awakening slowly and with precision so that it felt real. You could see Luna struggling to open her eyes as she tried to comprehend what was going on around her. Then came her relieved smile as she saw her two grandmothers smiling back.

In that one moment, Yamada gave us the Luna we knew so well, a girl who just wanted to be loved. Then, the smile turned delusional not long after. Luna began thinking about Will (Crew Morrow), and we knew nothing had changed at all.

The Bold and the Beautiful's Luna says she's changed...

Yamada told us everything we needed to know about the "new" Luna with her face. While her words said one thing, her eyes said another. Luna claimed that she was finished with all that anger and angst that had kept her going. She would stop living that bitter life, hellbent on revenge against those she believed wronged her.

However, Luna is right back in the headspace she was before she was shot. On the surface, Luna wants to be a good person, but deep down, she doesn't even know how. Yamada's portrayal of a confused and conflicted mentally ill young woman allowed us to sympathize a bit, but we were also terrified.

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As Luna argued with Li (Naomi Finnegan) and continued to bash her (admittedly horrible) mother, it was clear as day that Luna would be up to her old tricks in no time. All she could do was continue to dream about a life with the two objects of her obsession — her father, Finn (Tanner Novlan), and the unsuspecting object of her obsession, Will Spencer. Remember, Luna just wants to be pretty — and loved — and Yamada knows it.

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