Page 114 - Marie Claire Australia (January 2020)

atasha Liu Bordizzo is calm as she stands
in the middle of Tokyo’s iconic Shibuya
Crossing, surrounded by a heaving crowd
of people. “The energy on that block is
Ncrazy,” says the 25-year-old actress, who
was scouted at Central Station in Sydney five years ago
and has since starred in The Greatest Showman and
Hotel Mumbai. “I feel this deep peace every time I’m
in Tokyo. It’s one of my favourite places in the world.”
Despite her inner calm, it was a whirlwind trip
for Bordizzo. One day she was attending the opening
of Chanel’s Mademoiselle Privé exhibition, rubbing
shoulders with Pharrell Williams and Sofia Coppola.
The next she was wearing new-season pieces from the
luxury fashion house and shooting into the night in
the maze of tiny alleyways lined with tinier bars in the
backstreets of Shibuya. “Everyone was going about
their day around us. Elderly people were going
into bars, drinking sake.”
A friend of the house and a diehard fan of the
classic Chanel tweed jacket, Bordizzo’s first Chanel
experience was attending their autumn/winter 2019
show, held just weeks after the passing of longtime
creative director Karl Lagerfeld, which she describes
as bittersweet. “It was a really special moment to have
entered the brand, because I got to experience them
at their most unified,” she explains.
After a hectic three days in Tokyo, Bordizzo raced
from her marie claire shoot to the airport to board a
flight to LA, then on to Toronto, where she’s filming
“an exciting new project”. After a year of jetsetting
around the globe and starring in the hit Netflix
series The Society, Bordizzo is looking forward
to a white (sand) Christmas, relaxing on the
beach in Byron Bay. “It will be very cold in
Canada at that point. [So] I’m going to be
very, very happy to come home.” We have
a feeling she won’t stay put for long.

“It was a special moment to

enter Chanel; I experienced
them at their most unified”