"I learned to ride a bike, carry an umbrella and speak on my cellphone at the same time. I climbed Mount Fuji and I was not an outdoor person. It was never my ambition, which was very challenging for my personality."
In essence, her ambassadorship position requires of her to help sell all that's good about Japan to South Africans. In September, Brescia will travel to the Land of the Rising Sun to meet role players in areas such as entertainment, tourism and public services.
"We want to start a relationship between South Africa and Japan so we can understand each other from a much better perspective. I went there when there was no social media.
"Now there is social media and it's easy to bring South Africans with me to experience what Japan is like - from a geographical and cultural point of view.
"Hopefully we will get to export what we do here."
In case you were wondering, Brescia reveals that she got her nickname of Dragon on the set of Isibaya.
"When we were doing acting exercises it came to their minds that I have this spirit of a dragon - a mystical creature that doesn't exist on earth, it breathes fire and is very powerful," she shares.