On The Bold and the Beautiful, Bill probably thinks he can redeem Luna by having her live with him instead of prison. Many characters have recently expressed how they think Luna is just an evil psychopath for committing murder and attempted murder. When she spouts regret for her actions, it’s hard to believe that Luna’s serious and more likely she’s lying just to win Bill over. The murder of Tom and Hollis was a mystery for a while, and Luna’s alter ego Lisa Yamada opened up about how she enjoyed her character’s murderous glee.
She Threw Herself Into the Part
No one on the set of B&B knew who the killer was at the time, except for the higher-ups. Yamada told Soap Opera Digest that she didn’t consider Luna a suspect because there were many other possibilities. But all bets were off when she received the script containing the scenes of Luna imprisoning Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood), and later kissing Bill (Don Diamont), and a shocked Yamada exclaimed, “Oh my God, it was me this entire time!” (Find out why Bill really brought Luna to his house.)
The excitement for the next scripts to see how the story played out had Yamada on pins and needles, brimming with anticipation. Upon the revelation, she worked out her approach to the material, stating, “I totally leaned into it. I was like, ‘Hey, if I get to be the murderer, then I’m going to go full-out!’ ”
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The Clown Prince of Crime Inspired Her
Tackling this new, scary direction for Luna was somewhat intimidating, especially since she didn’t want to imitate B&B’s resident villain, Sheila (Kimberlin Brown). “I did want to pay homage to her, and I wanted to bring my own take to an evil character,” she said of Brown’s fan-favorite reformed killer. She also noted that her interpretation was to have fun with the character rather than just be evil for evil’s sake.
She looked to Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight for inspiration. “That definitely inspired me to have more fun with it and find the humor in some of the scenes,” she remarked, adding that a villain finding joy in other people’s pain is far scarier than just sporting a mean face. Luna had imprisoned Steffy in a cage in a building scheduled for demolition, and she stated, “I think Luna is so psychotic that she found Steffy begging for her life funny.”
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