Who Is Luna’s Father on ‘Bold and the Beautiful’? Ted King Addresses Jack’s Paternity Drama
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The uncertainty surrounding Luna Nozawa’s (Lisa Yamada) true paternity on The Bold and the Beautiful becomes a focal point once again this week, as Li Finnegan (Naomi Matsuda) summons her estranged husband, Jack Finnegan, to determine once and for all if he has a part to play in the tale.
For Ted King, who plays Jack, the call to return came at a good time. “I just finished shooting two projects in New York,” he explains. “One was a film directed by a friend of mine that I met on Oppenheimer and the other one was a new baseball television series. I was working there for about two months and Bold and the Beautiful reached out and asked if I would do several shows for them in December. It was just perfect timing and a wonderful experience.”
The actor, who first appeared as John “Finn” Finnegan’s (Tanner Novlan) father in 2021 and won a Daytime Emmy for his efforts, appreciates that the show continues to find ways to incorporate his alter ego. “I like the character a lot because we don’t know a lot about him, so they could take Jack in any direction they choose to,” King notes. “It’s exciting for me as an actor, and in this particular situation, it’s a complicated story involving his ex-wife and her sister and accusations about paternity.”
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Indeed, once Jack arrives at Li’s office, he finds her sister, Poppy Nozawa (Romy Park), present. Li then accuses Jack of fathering Luna. Since the drama in question happened well before any of the characters ever appeared on the canvas, King says there were some dynamics to work through. “We had to figure out the backstory,” he explains. “How close were Jack and Poppy when she was living with Jack and Li back in the day? So that was interesting to go back and try to trace that history to the present and figure out how these characters now sit with one another.”
An opportunity he welcomes. “My favorite thing to do as an actor is the research,” King relays. “I love figuring out where the characters have been before we see them today. It’s a very creative process. It can really determine how to play the scenes, so I love the unpredictable.”
When Jack arrives at Li’s office, he is hopeful that they can put their marriage back on track. “He thinks that they’re going to patch things up,” King previews. “When Li calls him, he’s excited. He’s really looking forward to Li saying, ‘I forgive you. Let’s get back together.’ ”
Jack quickly discovers that’s not the case, however, when he’s accused of being Luna’s real father. “He’s completely blindsided,” says King. Even though Jack was unfaithful in the past and welcomed Finn with Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown) during his marriage, Jack takes umbrage at the accusation that he slept with his sister-in-law, too. “Even if you’re guilty once, it doesn’t mean you’re guilty twice,” King points out. “And it’s amazing how indignant you can become.”
The scenes, King teases, are “very intense. They were such a rush to shoot and figure out how to portray so that all the characters’ integrity was preserved. They were most complicated for Naomi to perform because she has so much physical behavior within the scenes. Naomi had the heavy lifting, and I was there to support in any way I could.”
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Since Li is a doctor, she decides to get to the truth using the tools in her arsenal. “She literally stabs Jack to draw his blood,” King muses. “The three of us are talking while it’s all going on.” The unusual choreography of the sequence required some additional thought, King reports. “I was talking to wardrobe about what kinds of jackets Jack could wear where this could happen quickly,” he shares. “Jack can’t be wearing a suit jacket because it won’t pull up on his arm fast enough, because she rips his sleeve up and shoves a needle into his vein. How do you do that quickly? It’s not simple, so we had to figure all that out in rehearsal beforehand in one of our dressing rooms.”
The results of the paternity test will be revealed on Friday, January 24, and King has high praise for the drama he’s playing out on screen. “It’s a great storyline because of the duplicitous behavior that’s taken place and all of the interesting possibilities that could come from it,” King declares. “I told that to Brad [Bell, executive producer/head writer] at the holiday party. I found myself thinking, ‘Oh wow, so this is what’s going to happen?! That’s a whole new layer that I hadn’t thought of before I got those scripts.’ I really enjoyed it.”
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After today's episode,I'm not so sure anymore.I was sure Jack is the Daddy,but Jack seemed shocked not busted..What if it is Finn,maybe they had a night together and didn't even know who the other was..Finn doesn't seem like he's hiding any big paternity secret..maybe it's Ridge,he got hit on the head with a pine cone way back in the day(lol)and now there's Luna.
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I was thinking the same. That Ridge could be the father.
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I think Finn is the dad, not Jack
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I know they’re going to make Finn be the father which is a shame because it seems like the show just wants to muddy his character so it would justify Liam slithering his way back into Steffy’s life. The writers don’t understand that no one wants Liam and Steffy back together. Just let her be happy with Finn and stop trying to write Finn is such a bad light. He’s a good guy and a protector.
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Let the Finn character remain as is and not Luna's parent. He is too young
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Yes, I thought it is Finn based upon the episode months & months ago when they had a scene that lent itself showing the closeness Poppy had with Finn when he was living with them and had it showed that he had some memory gaps about that period.
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I've said that all along. I wonder what Finn will think when he finds out,his daughter is a murderer. I bet his wife will go back to Liam...♥️😂
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It's obvious that Finn is the father. They set that up when she asked Finn to help with Luna. It was the way she approached him on the subject and how she asked him to be there for Luna. And now this paternity test won't exclude Jack which will confuse the hell out of Jack because he never slept with Poppy and she will have to confess that Finn is the father and that it happened one crazy night of partying with Finn when he was in college. Dun dun dun lol
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You hit the nail on the head!! I wondered how the test was going to turn out since Jack is Finns father... it must show apercentage. I cant wait for Steffy to find out. Woop woop.
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Leave Steffi and Finn alone, please. Too much crap going on anyway.
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Why should they do that she didn't leave Brook and Ridge relationship alone like they say what goes around comes around
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I have a feeling with way they did a huge 180 on hope for no reason that when they get company back as revenge Hope will sleep with Finn and get knocked up. I’m still waiting for the hope brain damage storyline as well. I thought that’s where they were going with the constant headache.
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I don't watch it anymore because of Luna storyline it's ridiculous. Don't like her character. You've made Bill a wanna be pedophile.
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Last I checked, Luna is a grown woman. Regardless of the age difference, by definition, Bill cannot be a pedophile. Besides, to me, he just seems to be a man who fell in love with the idea of having a daughter. Personally, I think people who attach pedophilia to everything have issues that need to be addressed during mental health therapy.
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I havnt watched since :pig ridge went back to pathetically desperate Taylorbill let Luna serve under house arrest at his house !Hope and carter took over Forrester All Totally ridiculous story lines !!
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It's Finn, several episodes ago Poppy mentioned being at the house with Finn when he was in his late teens.
Liam has come back after an absence and he has lost weight, he looks terrible.
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Liam does look terrible
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Finn.
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I hope not! Leave Finn out of this mess. Poppy was sleeping around, let it be someone different!
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Brooke didn’t leave Ridge and Taylor alone either. Even though Taylor had three young children brooke still had an affair with Ridge. Please don’t make Finn the father sick of him being in everything.
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The plot thickens 😂
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If it was Finn and you look at Luna's age, that means Finn would have been under age if his so called aunt sleeped with him. That means the aunt would be charged with rape of a minor and to jail she would go. Not a good story line.
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Remember Finn and Jack have the same DNA so we cannot be finns
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Maybe Jack IS the father, but Poppy isn't the mother, Sheila is
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Haha. So where does the Asian side of Luna come from. Haha.
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From her Asian mom, Poppy.
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Luna is Asian.
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That crossed my mind too. Sheila has said that she has other children.
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Yes on y and r Daisy and her brother forgot the brother name. I just find it odd with y and r storyline and Lucy being 15 that Sheila hasn’t acknowledged that at all.
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Now that's the best story line I've heard so far.
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I though it was Finn all along
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I think there's a strong possibility, that Eric and Sheila is the parents of Luna!
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Luna is Asian.
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