The Life and Crimes Bold & Beautiful’s Luna Nozawa
Credit: Howard Wise/JPI (5)
Photo : Sean Smith/Bell-Phillip TV Productions Inc.
Nice Girls Finish Last? How Would She Know?
When The Bold and the Beautiful introduced Lisa Yamada as Luna Nozawa in the fall of 2023, Forrester Creations’ new intern seemed too good to be true. Spoiler alert: The secretly shady lady was too good to be true.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
Pretty Poison
Luna’s mother Poppy warned her to steer clear of the Forresters. But… um… why, exactly? We would soon discover that the affluent Angelenos were in danger from Luna, not a danger to her!
Photo : CBS screenshot
An Aunt Who’s No Picnic
Poppy’s sister Li read Luna the riot act for taking a job at Forrester Creations. The doctor’s reason for doing so? Who knows? It did not appear that Li was even remotely aware that Luna had a dark side.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
True Love?
Immediately, virginal Luna fell into a serious romance with Forrester golden boy R.J. And thus, her reign of terror really began. She was so sickly sweet with him that she threatened to give everyone in their vicinity diabetes.
Photo : CBS
The Buck Stops Here
Luna was completely and totally devoted to R.J. — to the point that she rebuffed his handsome cousin Zende’s every attempt to seduce her. A confounding move, considering the next step in what we would be told had been her master plan all along.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
Oh My Minty Goodness!
After mixing bubbly and a few of Mom’s “special mints,” a loopy Luna slept with Zende. She’d later reflect on the tryst as the best sex of her life, but that was just a bonus. Her real goal, she’d explain, was “exposing” Poppy’s drug use. Why? Just wait.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
It Only *Felt* Like Years of Tears
Luna actually only fake-cried over her one-nighter with Zende for a few weeks. But it wasn’t just an excuse to lounge around in fuzzy slippers and eat chocolate. Somehow, the show insisted, this was part of a scheme that would result in her getting super-rich Bill Spencer named her biodad.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
Isn’t That Convenient?
For “reasons,” Poppy began hinting that yes, Bill might be Luna’s father. So why had Poppy initially denied the possibility? And how come Luna waited until the long-ago lovers had reconnected to target his deep pockets? Beats the hell out of us.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
Her Maury Povich Moment
After Li’s DNA test proved that Luna was a Spencer, Bill fell right into her trap and had new family portraits taken. “No, Liam and Wyatt and Will, your presence is not required. I am all about my daughter now!”
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
Living the High Life
We still had no idea just how diabolical Luna was — or that she was diabolical at all — when Bill offered to adopt her. Which seemed unnecessary since he was supposedly her father, but whatever. She quickly grew accustomed to the VIP treatment at Il Giardino.
Photo : CBS screenshot
Derailing the Gravy Train
So far as we saw, Luna never met Tom Starr, the down-on-his-luck former rocker who insisted to Poppy that he was the young woman’s pop. But thanks to the letters he’d written Poppy over the years, Luna knew he was a threat to her plan and — gulp — eliminated him.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
*Now* It All Makes Sense!
Not really. But Luna apparently drugged herself and slept with Zende just as preparation to frame her own mother for Tom’s murder. Mind you, he hadn’t even arrived on the scene yet when Luna “accidentally” shagged Zende. So… um… huh?
Photo : CBS screenshot
Thank You, Next
When Hollis the Waiter happened upon Tom’s revealing love letters to Poppy, Luna ensured that he had served his last breadstick and let Mom get arrested for the crimes. But by then, Luna had an even bigger problem.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
‘No Idea… What *Does* M-Y-O-B Spell?’
Bill’s busybody ex Katie Logan had been instrumental in getting Poppy out of the picture. But Luna wasn’t able to alter the results of the second DNA test on which Katie insisted. No matter. Luna still made Bill the answer to the question of…
Photo : CBS screenshot
Who’s Your Daddy?
If Luna wasn’t going to get a fat allowance from Bill, she figured that she could cash in another way — by enticing her father figure to tell her an especially scandalous bedtime story. Even the Stallion was like, “Whoa, Nellie!”
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
Nobody Puts Steffy in the Corner… of the Cage
After Steffy Forrester got an eyeful of Luna paying lip service to Bill, she confronted her half brother’s girlfriend. Whereas everyone else who crossed Luna wound up dead, Steffy got lucky: She was only locked up.
Photo : CBS
The Jig Is Up
Thanks to the keen intuition of Luna’s incredibly smart cousin Dr. Finn Finnegan, Steffy was found and her captor, busted. But surely Luna would have another trick up her sleeve, right? Why else wear sleeves? In L.A.? Come on!
Photo : CBS screenshot
Singing the Black-and-Blues
Over and over, Luna wrote to Bill and insisted that she didn’t know what had come over her. She wasn’t the kind of person who’d commit a double murder. Maybe a single, but… Anyway, once Bill saw how she was being treated in prison, he worked his magic and got her released into his custody. Because that’s totally a thing that can happen.
Photo : CBS screenshot (2)
I Spy
No sooner had Luna and Bill established that they’d never really been hot for one another than his secret houseguest became infatuated with his son, Will. And just after his girlfriend Electra Forrester had escaped from the clutches of another psycho! What are the odds?
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
Talk Show
The longer Luna stayed at Bill’s, the more she and her savior bonded over their horrible upbringings — yes, even though she’d always said that she and her mom had had an unconventional but fun life. Now and then, Luna also dissed Tom as a “one-hit wonder.” Mm-hmm. ’Cause nothing says “I’m truly remorseful” like insulting your murder victim posthumously.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
No Need for Maury Povich: ‘You Are *Not* the Father!’
Meanwhile, Li got it in her head that ex-husband Jack had knocked up Poppy way back when. But a paternity test proved that Luna didn’t owe him any Father’s Day cards. So, once and for all, who the hell was her dad? Li probably wasn’t going to like at which we arrived.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
Who Says Good Help Is Hard to Find?
No sooner had Remy Pryce, aka Will Spencer’s new girlfriend Electra Forrester’s stalker, started doing odd jobs around Bill’s estate than he and Luna became fast friends. You know the one thing that was missing from that particular recipe for disaster?
Photo : CBS screenshot (5)
Happy Father’s Day?
Years after the fact, Luna’s cousin Finn Finnegan got it in his head that “Hey, ya know what? Maybe the fact that I had sex with Aunt Poppy means that her daughter is also… oh my God, my daughter!” He was right, too!
Photo : CBS screenshot
‘Let’s Beat Around the Bush Some More First’
After getting a mysterious text, Finn showed up at Bill’s and eventually — OMG, he hemmed and hawed for a whole episode — got around to telling Luna that he is the dad that she should have had all along. Read her portrayer’s take on .
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI (2)
C’mon, Baby! Do the Split!
Even before learning that her cousin is her father, Luna had begun talking like she was preparing to mount a dissociative-identity disorder defense in order to get a retrial for Tom and Hollis’ murders. With Finn’s support and Bill’s money, would she soon be a free woman?
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
Turned Out Finn’s Support Wasn’t Even Needed
Bill got Luna paroled all on his own, then kicked her out — odd, considering he was her biggest champion. But in no time, she found someone new in whom she could confide: her equally demented grandma, Sheila Carter. In fact, it was the more seasoned psycho who advised her that the surest way to Will’s heart was…
Photo : CBS screenshot
… Dressing Up as a Pizza Delivery Guy
Yes, in this impenetrable disguise, Luna gained access to Forrester Creations — and Will, whose mind she took off of Electra by enticing another part of his anatomy with a risqué fashion show and a straightforward offer of all the sex he could have.
Photo : CBS screenshot
When Push Came to Shove…
… Electra, it turned out, wasn’t afraid to throw down. Despite being as prissy as Luna liked to say, she didn’t hesitate to draw a line in the sand to separate Will from the stalker who wouldn’t stop texting him.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
‘We’ve All Made Mistakes’
Luna refocused her attentions on forging a relationship with her daddy. But her attempts to shrug off her crimes as bygone oopsies didn’t fly with Finn or Steffy. Even her father told her “Hell, no,” and still, she heard, “Well, maybe.”
Photo : Howard Wise/JPi
Food for Thought
As Luna convinced herself that Steffy was the only thing keeping her from Finn, even Sheila, of all people, was like, “Girl, you’ve gone off the deep end. Maybe it’s time you left L.A.”
Photo : CBS screenshot
‘Not On Your Knife… Er, *Life*!’
At her wit’s end — or beyond it! — Luna approached Sheila’s husband Deacon Sharpe in hopes of convincing him to forgive her and/or forget that she murdered two of his friends. Didn’t go well. She also appealed anew to Bill. But he forcefully reminded her, “You are not the victim here.”
Photo : CBS screenshot
Going Off Half-Cocked in Three, Two…
With no one in her corner and nothing left to lose, Luna bought a gun and used a picture of Steffy for target practice. It seemed as if it was only a matter of time before Luna traded the printout for the real thing.
Photo : CBS screenshot
On Second Thought…
Luna forgot all about murdering Steffy when Will lied that he’d dumped boring ol’ Electra and wanted to hook up. But Luna quickly deduced that the makeout session was a sexy sting operation, grabbed her gun and fled. What? Did you think that the police would be laying in wait to apprehend her? On this show? Don’t be silly.
Photo : CBS screenshot
Little Miss Sunshine
Free to do as she pleased, Luna used her skills at folding origami to befriend Steffy and Finn’s son Hayes — you know, the kid who is weirdly named after grandma Taylor’s abusive first husband. (The shrink’s maiden name is Hamilton, not Hayes.)
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
‘Consider This a Time-Out’
Next thing we knew, Luna was running around in her villainess outfit again, tying up Hayes’ teacher and calling Steffy to the summer camp that was being run out of Bill’s beach house.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
The Final Showdown?
Rather than say “You know what, Luna? You’re right, I should let you hang out with your dad!” and get the hell out of harm’s way, Steffy gently reminded her stepdaughter of her crimes. Not gently enough, though.
Photo : CBS screenshot
Sleeping Beauty
By the time the smoke cleared, Luna had shot Sheila in the foot, Bill’s son Liam in the chest and taken a bullet herself. Li said that her granddaughter/niece had died while recovering from surgery, but in fact, the doctor had merely spirited her away to heal her in secret the same way she once had the “late” Finn.
Photo : CBS screenshot
Who Was That Masked Menace?
Upon awakening, Luna revealed that she had learned absolutely nothing from her past misdeeds by crashing Will’s ill-advised Il Giardino promotion party in disguise, serving him borderline toxic quantities of alcohol and then sneaking into the room in which he was sleeping off his unintentional bender to rape him.
Photo : Howard Wise/JPI
No, Knievel, Just Evil
When Luna’s text trail led Will straight to her, she seemed stunned — altogether stunned — that neither her victim’s parents nor granny Li saw her stunt as being as fun and funny as she did. But the psycho still had one last trick up her sleeve… or should we say that she had…
Photo : CBS screenshot
A Bun in the Oven
Luna’s one chance of staying out of prison, and it was a slim one at that, was if she was pregnant with Will’s rape baby. She was sure enough that she was “in a delicate condition” to keep inquiring whether the rabbit had died. But was she, in fact, carrying Bill’s grandchild?
Photo : CBS screenshot
No Need to Apply Blush
Luna was indeed rocking a maternal glow. Bill suggested that if she really cared for Will — as she said she did every five minutes — she’d set him free by getting an abortion. But is likely to only fuel her fire and make her believe that the path to the object of her obsession is clear of obstacles.