discover the most in-demand girl in japan
Model and actress Serena Motola is so cool.
By Frankie Dunn
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Aug 9 2019, 9:06am
If you’ve been to Japan recently, Serena Motola’s face will feel strangely familiar to you. You basically can’t walk down the street in her Tokyo hometown without seeing the half-Japanese, half-Italian American model turned actress in a TV commercial, on a magazine cover or towering over you in a shop window. We’ve been watching her star ascend for some time -- even sending Petra Collins over to shoot her for i-D Japan’s beautiful Female Gaze Issue.
Now 20, Serena has already been modelling for four years and acting for three -- starring in both dreamy coming-of-age movie Girls' Encounter by Yûka Eda and the forthcomingTransparent-like Japanese comedy My Father, the Bride. Apparently not one to do things by halves, this summer she revealed that she could sing, too -- releasing a cover of “Ireita Baby”, a dubby favourite by cult 90s Japanese band, Fishmans. What can’t she do, am I right?