No Script, No Character: Risa Hayase, the Japanese Actress Who Performs as Herself
Theater-trained and based in Los Angeles, Japanese actress Risa Hayase spends hours in front of a camera with no text to hold her up. Something she was not looking for came out of it. “I have a dream and I want to change my life, but I don’t have the courage to do it. I wish I could be more like Risa.” The message showed up in the middle of a stream, among comments scrolling up and down the screen. “It surprised me a lot, because I hadn’t realized someone could see me that way,” she says. At the same time she understood that plenty of people are dealing with similar fears, and she counts…
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