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Asiance Magazine interviews Julia on acting, writing, upcoming projects and more: "Asiance: Julia, you have garnered a number of awards and nominations. Among them, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS award for “Tied Up” at the 2004 Denver Underground Film Festival in Denver, Colorado. and nomination for BEST FEMALE FILMMAKER for “Sin & Lyle” at the 2007 Action On Film Festival in Long Beach, California. When did you first decide you wanted to act? Julia: I think I decided that I wanted to be a professional actor from the first time I ever performed on stage. I was cast in a community theatre production at Albany Civic Theatre in Oregon, where I grew up. It was a small role, maybe two scenes, but I’m pretty sure from that moment on acting became my passion and I began to pursue it professionally." "'Judas Kiss' is an amazingly well-made film that narrowly escapes being pretentious. There is great acting including Brent Corrigan’s first major acting role, great editing, and an interesting plot...Danny’s friend Abbey (Julia Morizawa) also offers comic relief as his snarky fag-hag/producer." "'Judas Kiss' boasts brilliant production values, clever use of locations, and excellent casting. David and Harmon are ably assisted by costars Timo Descamps, Julia Morizawa, and Sean Paul Lockhart (who is due to receive QFest's Rising Star Award on Friday)." "There’s very little not to love about 'Macbeezy' at the Knightsbridge. This 'hip-hopera,' which sets 'Macbeth' to hip-hop music, brims with youthful brio while staying remarkably faithful to its source material....All the actors are terrific, and all are richly worthy of mention." “Twenty-Two” featured on the Silverlake segment of NBC NewsRaw, February 11, 2010:
“While nude ones camp-it-up with lovely abandon, female lead Julia M. Morizawa plays admirably straight with a pretty convincing and emotional performance.” “As a Betazoid tactical officer, Maya Stadi (Julia Morizawa) is ‘able to anticipate people’s moves, attacks, that sort of thing.’ Now, if only Ro Nevin (Bobby Rice) can keep her from reading the crew’s thoughts.” “Once again, the Knightsbridge has lived up to its reputation of being an ‘experimental theater.’ Their new, daringly updated version of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is a production that will definitely stir up some ‘ado’ among its audiences....Julia Morizawa plays the tiny Japanese, whose comic stance and grin tickle the funny bone...” “Here Trekkie Central Magazine talks to Julia Morizawa, who plays Lieutenant Stadi, on what life is like aboard the starship Odyssey. TC: You are playing a human in Star Trek Odyssey, is it a bit of a relief to be able to show emotions on screen after playing a Vulcan in Star Trek Hidden Frontier? JM: I suppose there is a part of me that feels “relief” getting to play a human in the new series. S’tal was a wonderful challenge because I had too translate human emotion, thought and reaction into something unfamiliar - something I could only imagine and never really experience or study (other than watching the performances of other actors as Vulcans). But even though lacking emotion, S’tal (for me) had little quirks - sometimes a hint of tone in her voice or the raising of an eyebrow. In Star Trek Odyssey, Stadi is a fun role to play because she can be a firecracker - she’s very serious about her job, but if something is bothering her, she’ll let you know. The role is more instinctual for me because I can actually bring my own personality into it. I don’t have to remember to “hold back”. But regardless of the role I’m playing, I always enjoy the opportunity to work with Rob Caves and the rest of the cast and crew.” Julia Morizawa receives a nomination for BEST FEMALE FILMMAKER for “Sin & Lyle” at the 2007 Action On Film Festival in Long Beach, California. “Sin, played by Morizawa, who also wrote and directed the film in addition to producing, is a complex soul. On the one hand, she is coolly seductive and cerebral in her party conversation with Johnny (played amiably and with a restrained albeit evident good humor by Robert S. Walters) and uses those qualities to pull Lyle into her world as she declares, ”I’m going to kill myself tomorrow.” In sharp contrast, she is kind and warm to a homeless friend, Joe (played genially by Robert Lyle) with whom she exchanges sandwiches for poetry. Then, in another dramatic shift in character, she becomes violently enraged by the attempted street evangelism of Callie, played by Ozma Bryant, who brings to mind a courageous deer in t he headlights during the heated confrontation with Sin over the cruel nature of a disconnected God in which Callie can neither advance nor retreat. The rage carries itself back to the apartment where Sin literally tears at the news in a torrent of violence - the weight of the world’s cruelty separating herself from her soul.” Julia Morizawa is awarded BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS for “Tied Up” at the 2004 Denver Underground Film Festival in Denver, Colorado. “Morizawa and Shin deliver well-nuanced characters, and Chae is a bubbly tension reliever with her humorous interruptions.” “The performances in Henry Chan’s staging are taut with tension, expressed in appropriately personalized ways....Morizawa’s face is a poignant emblem of the pain felt by a teenager who has just lost her mother.” “Generational and cultural clashes within the Korean-American community are well dramatized in the West Coast premiere of MASHA NO HOME, a drama by 28-year-old playwright Lloyd Suh now on tap at East West Players. Central to the story is a $30,000 kae - an off-the-books kitty meant to give recent Korean arrivals a grubstake in NYC. Its presence triggers a tug of war between Masha, a rebellious teenager played by Julia Morizawa, and her older brother, Whitman (Eddie Shin), a workaholic lawyer obliged to care for her after the death of their parents....Writing, acting and directing come together in this most impressive production.” |
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