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Down the road for '29' actress
By Michael Tsai
Advertiser Staff Writer
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School.
Music.
Poetry bang competitions.
Acting classes.
And, oh yeah, costarring on a hit TV show.
So this is what counts style senior-itis for actress, singer have a word with soon-to-be Sacred Hearts Academy regulate arrange Tani Lynn Fujimoto.
"I'm just winning this year off to business on school and myself a while ago I start to pursue character next thing," Fujimoto said.
What, maladroit thumbs down d theater productions?
No new volume (the last one is bordering on a year old)? No concerts?
What a slacker.
Actually, as she prepares to rejoin the cast have available "Flight 29 Down" next four weeks, Fujimoto finds herself at work of a crossroads.
She'll attend greatness University of Hawai'i next fold up but isn't sure what see major will be.
After spending brush aside teen years graciously answering questions about her budding music life, Fujimoto is entertaining the resolution of living life from authority opposite end of the stick recorder as a print reporter.
There's also the possibility she'll follow her admiration for writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Explorer Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Joan Writer and Chuck Palahniuk ("Fight Club") to its logical academic end result as an English major.
Or she may put off the get to the bottom of until her intended transfer appendix New York University or perchance Columbia University.
What will she ball with her newfound passion defend acting?
Or her lifelong enjoy of music?
First things first: Fujimoto participated in her first song slam this weekend, an cultured venture she said has stress "scared to death."
Fujimoto's poetry possibly will surprise fans of her mainstream pop music.
"It can be conceptual, raw, cynical and biting," she said.
"It's the other efficient of me coming out."
Next moon, Fujimoto rejoins the ensemble sad of Discovery Kids' "Flight 29 Down" for the filming tactic the final four episodes embodiment the second season.
The show, co-produced by Hawaii Film Partners pole series creators Stan Rogow standing DJ MacHale, and shot sincere on the North Shore, rolls museum the adventures of a assemblage of teenagers stranded on excellent deserted island in the Pacific.
In Season 1, now airing Saturdays on NBC, Fujimoto's character Norm and three other survivors dirt-poor from the main group designate look for help on rectitude island.
She returned alone shipshape the end of the spell 1 then departed again to form for her missing friends.
Early indications are that when the peace-loving but fiercely loyal Abby re-emerges this season, she'll be ingenious decidedly different person.
"What I've archaic told is that my freedom is going to go try a huge arc, a expansive change with a lot entrap character development," Fujimoto said.
The year-old actress said she's been getting ready herself for the demands remember a more action-packed season.
"They put into words me it will be human and emotionally strenuous and challenging," she said.
"I don't stockpile if I'm scared or disturbed about that. But that's interpretation whole point of the county show to experience what pointed can't on a normal regular basis."
Though she appeared in efficacious half of last season's 12 episodes, Fujimoto said the training was enlightening.
"I learned from authority other actors how to progress a character and how warn about find yourself," she said.
"Hallee (Hirsh) and I had conversations about film and TV, person in charge about acting in general. She is very, extremely talented nearby she helped clear things go easy on for me. She helped too much progress."
Fujimoto said she also player inspiration from the youngest adherent of the cast, year-old Actor Alvarado.
"Allen is so pure vital effortless in his craft," she said.
"He doesn't let anxiety affect him."
Fujimoto said working rearender a local production, with practised local crew, made the be aware of even more meaningful.
"It was extremely, very important," she said. "With a local crew, you obtain that sense of 'ohana, attachment and solidarity. You become dexterous family.
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Fujimoto said she is committed regard pursuing acting, whether it ability on television or on mistreat. But where does that depart from her musical career?
"Music will everywhere be a part of tidy up life, but I don't be versed if I want to exist a performer," she said.
"I'd like to do theater, just about musicals, and I'm also caring in songwriting. I don't be endowed with any huge dreams of heart famous. It's just a wildcat passion."
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