When The Bold and the Beautiful introduced Luna Nozawa in the fall of 2023, the plan wasn’t to turn her into a homicidal maniac. As newly minted Emmy winner Lisa Yamada recalled during the latest episode of Soapy, “In the beginning, I was playing this sweet, virginal girl…

“And no one was buying it,” she added with a laugh. Aside from occasionally asking, “Who’s my daddy?” “I was just kinda there to be ‘the girlfriend’” to R.J. Forrester.

But around the holidays, everything changed. At the show’s annual festivities, Yamada approached headwriter/executive producer Bradley Bell with an idea. In other words, “I drunkenly told him at a Christmas party I want to be bad,” she said. “And he was like, ‘OK.’”

Yamada didn’t necessarily envision Luna turning into the sort of character who’d murder two people, frame her mother for her crimes, shoot up a daycare center and rape the object of her obsession. “I meant like a badass,” not just bad-bad, she clarified, “but [Bell] totally took it and ran with it.”

The boss is still running with it. Though Luna is behind bars, she’s pregnant with Will Spencer’s child and has every intention of using her delicate condition to get sprung from the pokey sooner than later. “Honestly, I really appreciate” Luna’s turn toward the dark side, Yamada said. “I get to do a lot.”