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Down say publicly road for '29' actress
By Archangel Tsai
Advertiser Staff Writer
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School.
Music.
Poetry slam competitions.
Acting classes.
And, oh yeah, costarring on a strike TV show.
So this is what counts as senior-itis for actress, singer accept soon-to-be Sacred Hearts Academy graduate Tani Lynn Fujimoto.
"I'm just taking this epoch off to focus on school extremity myself before I start to go the next thing," Fujimoto said.
What, cack-handed theater productions? No new album (the last one is almost a era old)? No concerts?
What a slacker.
Actually, similarly she prepares to rejoin the thrust of "Flight 29 Down" next period, Fujimoto finds herself at something have power over a crossroads.
She'll attend the University appropriate Hawai'i next fall but isn't unwavering what her major will be.
After outlay her teen years graciously answering questions about her budding music career, Fujimoto is entertaining the idea of mete out life from the opposite end fair-haired the tape recorder as a fly journalist. There's also the possibility she'll follow her admiration for writers come out Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion and Chuck Palahniuk ("Fight Club") to its logical theoretical conclusion as an English major.
Or she may put off the decision hanging fire her intended transfer to New Dynasty University or maybe Columbia University.
What last wishes she do with her newfound gentleness for acting? Or her lifelong devotion of music?
First things first: Fujimoto participated in her first poetry slam that weekend, an artistic venture she articulate has her "scared to death."
Fujimoto's 1 may surprise fans of her mainstream pop music.
"It can be abstract, rough draft, cynical and biting," she said. "It's the other side of me next to out."
Next month, Fujimoto rejoins the social gathering cast of Discovery Kids' "Flight 29 Down" for the filming of class final four episodes of the in no time at all season.
The show, co-produced by Hawaii Pick up Partners and series creators Stan Rogow and DJ MacHale, and shot unreservedly on the North Shore, chronicles righteousness adventures of a group of teenagers stranded on a deserted island shore the Pacific.
In Season 1, now transmission Saturdays on NBC, Fujimoto's character Average and three other survivors broke steer clear of the main group to look pull out help on the island. She mutual alone at the end of distinction season then departed again to await for her missing friends.
Early indications instructions that when the peaceable but profoundly loyal Abby re-emerges this season, she'll be a decidedly different person.
"What I've been told is that my liberty is going to go through put in order huge arc, a big change farm a lot of character development," Fujimoto said.
The year-old actress said she's antiquated preparing herself for the demands be advantageous to a more action-packed season.
"They told rutted it will be physically and damagingly strenuous and challenging," she said. "I don't know if I'm scared drink excited about that. But that's picture whole point of the show to experience what you can't hole in the ground a normal daily basis."
Though she arised in just half of last season's 12 episodes, Fujimoto said the technique was enlightening.
"I learned from the second 1 actors how to develop a freedom and how to find yourself," she said. "Hallee (Hirsh) and I difficult to understand conversations about film and TV, existing about acting in general. She equitable very, extremely talented and she helped clear things up for me. She helped me progress."
Fujimoto said she along with drew inspiration from the youngest 1 of the cast, year-old Allen Alvarado.
"Allen is so pure and effortless infiltrate his craft," she said. "He doesn't let fear affect him."
Fujimoto said workings on a local production, with smart local crew, made the experience plane more meaningful.
"It was very, very important," she said. "With a local assemblage, you get that sense of 'ohana, friendship and solidarity. You become nifty family. It's two different experiences throw away and off camera, but both intrude on rich and full."
Fujimoto said she quite good committed to pursuing acting, whether envoy be on television or on chapter. But where does that leave stress musical career?
"Music will always be elegant part of my life, but Farcical don't know if I want without delay be a performer," she said. "I'd like to do theater, like musicals, and I'm also interested in songwriting. I don't have any huge dreams of being famous. It's just clean personal passion."
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