Awkwafina

May 2024 · 12 minute read

I don't know her or much of her work but.....she was promoting The Little Mermaid and.....how did she become a thing?

So low energy, practically mumbling through an interview.....such a deep voice (is she/they trans?)......I don't get it. What am I missing? Not trying to be mean, just didn't understand the fuss.

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by Anonymousreply 75October 14, 2023 4:11 AM

I like Awkwafina.

She was funny in Crazy Rich Asians and Shang-Chi.

She was excellent in The Farewell, a dramatic role.

by Anonymousreply 2May 16, 2023 5:17 PM

Is she a lesbian? She seems very lesbianic.

by Anonymousreply 3May 16, 2023 5:24 PM

I like her more than smug cunts like Mindy Kaling and Constance Wu.

by Anonymousreply 4May 16, 2023 5:31 PM

Half-Chinese, Half-Korean - I agree, she seems lesbian

by Anonymousreply 5May 16, 2023 6:46 PM

She stole the show in Crazy Rich Asians.

by Anonymousreply 6May 16, 2023 6:49 PM

I think she's funny and she doesn't seem to take herself too seriously. Half of these responses are clearly from Constance Wu!

by Anonymousreply 9May 17, 2023 1:10 AM

She's like an Asian Kevin Hart, loud, annoying, unfunny, one minute of her is too long.

by Anonymousreply 10May 17, 2023 3:21 AM

She’s funny and surprisingly quite charming

by Anonymousreply 11May 17, 2023 3:24 AM

Her show on Comedy Central is funny and bizarre. It’s probably not for everyone, but we like it. Third season just started up.

by Anonymousreply 12May 17, 2023 3:34 AM

I agree she’s funny and somewhat unique. She’s enjoyable in what I’ve seen her in.

by Anonymousreply 13May 17, 2023 3:35 AM

Perhaps her Vag had something to do with it.

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by Anonymousreply 14May 17, 2023 3:52 AM

I saw her in something or other. She was awful. I suppose she's a diversity hire.

by Anonymousreply 15May 17, 2023 3:54 AM

[quote] I agree she’s funny and somewhat unique.

You cannot be "somewhat unique."

Unique is an absolute quality.

by Anonymousreply 16May 17, 2023 3:57 AM

I just started watching Nora From Queens her comedy series now on HBO Max. Very funny.

by Anonymousreply 18May 17, 2023 4:02 AM

I enjoyed her and the rest of the cast of Renfeld. That movie was campy fun and shouldn't have flopped.

by Anonymousreply 19May 17, 2023 4:03 AM

She seems to have survived her cancellation for cultural appropriation then? I seem to recall a few years ago they came for her. She does put on that, obviously not genuine, blakcent and affectation. A lot of Asian Americans seem to do it, even more so than so called 'wiggers'.

by Anonymousreply 20May 17, 2023 4:06 AM

R16 there are elements of her that are unique.

by Anonymousreply 21May 17, 2023 8:25 AM

Sometimes people who are lively on the screen or the stage are surprisingly low-key when they're talking about themselves, Steve Martin being a male example.

I don't stan her, but she's actually been pretty good in the couple of films I've seen. She certainly showed more personality than did Crazy Rich Asians' nominal lead, Constance Wu, who seems to make a career of having scenes and whole movies "stolen" from her, as happened with not only Awkwafina but Michelle Yeoh here. It's not exactly a heist for the ages.

by Anonymousreply 22May 17, 2023 8:31 AM

If I were given the opportunity to punch people in the face, she would be relatively low on the list.

by Anonymousreply 24May 17, 2023 2:39 PM

Her Comedy Central show is quite funny. I never listen to DL advice about performers, because most are completely wrong. I sure won't listen to advice from people into reality shows, which are the lowest form of entertainment.

The haters on DL also won't like the fact that SNL regular Bowen Yang is on her series, he portrays her cousin. Bowen doesn't get any love here. His character is an actor now working on a Law & Order type series.

Lori Tan Chinn, who was a semi-regular on 'Roseanne', when Rosie worked at the hair salon, is also another regular. On 'Roseanne', Lori was one of the hairstylists and was very cute. On this series, Lori is the foul mouth grandma, she's hysterical and, boy, has she aged! Until I saw her name, I didn't recognize her.

BD Wong is Nora's dad, his character is engaged to Jennifer Esposito's character. Nora is kind of based on her real life, she was raised by her father and grandmother.

Awkwafina's character is still living at home and trying to find herself, she's a bit of a stoner and a slacker. Her cousin is always trying to help her. Recently she's been working in a local bodega.

by Anonymousreply 25May 17, 2023 3:09 PM

And, no she is not trans, she simply has a deep scratchy voice, which adds to her comedy.

by Anonymousreply 26May 17, 2023 3:10 PM

I used to work with a woman who grew up in Queens with Awkwafina. She said she was an oddball growing up, but this woman really liked her and wasn't surprised by her success. Said she was always very quirky and funny.

by Anonymousreply 27May 17, 2023 3:25 PM

She’s really funny in Nora from Queens. I haven’t seen anything else she’s in

by Anonymousreply 28May 17, 2023 3:26 PM

She did a good job in The Farewell. I also liked her in Ocean’s 8. She’s got that slacker persona, but that aside, she’s still funny.

by Anonymousreply 29May 17, 2023 4:54 PM

Does her pussy stink? Well?

by Anonymousreply 30May 17, 2023 5:02 PM

Don't get the appeal at all.

by Anonymousreply 32May 18, 2023 7:40 AM

I prefer her brother, Aqua Velva.

by Anonymousreply 34May 18, 2023 8:35 AM

Terrible actress, and not nearly as funny as she thinks she is.

by Anonymousreply 35May 18, 2023 9:37 AM

And her cousin Aqua Mulva dated Seinfeld.

by Anonymousreply 37May 19, 2023 5:20 AM

I like her. I thought she was great in "The Farewell", "Shang-Chi" and especially "Crazy Rich Asians". I even liked her voice work in animated films like "Raya & the Last Dragon" and "The Bad Guys".

Is "Renfield" streaming on Peacock yet?

by Anonymousreply 38May 19, 2023 5:35 AM

My favorite episode is her and Edmund fighting over Grandma

by Anonymousreply 40May 19, 2023 8:03 AM

I watched a roundtable with Awkwafina, Laura Dern, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lopez, Lupita Nyong'o, and Renée Zellweger a few years ago. (It was the year they were considered likely awards nominees for The Farewell, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit, Hustlers, Us, and Judy, respectively.) Awkwafina was kind of the "Elder-gals, tell me about..." person in that discussion. She was all wide-eyed at tales of the pre-#metoo years for actresses. There really isn't much of an age gap between her and Johansson, but the few years are significant ones.

by Anonymousreply 41May 19, 2023 8:28 AM

I like her, too. She was funny in Ocean's 8. A nice distraction from Sandy and Cate's Botox 8 specials.

by Anonymousreply 42May 19, 2023 8:34 AM

She's funny and likeable, I'm fine with her having a sitcom and play the sidekick in a lot of movies.

Just saw "Shang Chi and the Ten Rings" again last week, she was... funny, likeable, and a good sidekick! She can stay.

by Anonymousreply 43May 19, 2023 8:37 AM

I only know her from Crazy Rich Asians and she was hilarious. She explodes charisma. If she's normally "low energy" as OP suggests, then she was on amphetamines during the making of that movie.

by Anonymousreply 44May 19, 2023 8:38 AM

Annoying asian minstrel show stuff as the goofy sidekick in 'Crazy Rich'. But really affecting in "The Farewell". Seems to be a sweet, self effacing person in real life. People who push their broad, manic comedy routines on the public are *always* the most melancholic offscreen and usually possessed of hidden depths surprisingly suited to drama. Someone mentioned Steve Martin up thread and I agree. Jim Carrey is another. I hate their "funny" stuff...but when they play it straight, you get surprisingly soulful performances. She's bi, at the very least. She's hinted on her show.

by Anonymousreply 45May 19, 2023 9:46 AM

Jeez, there are so many people to despise in showbiz, there are so many phony hateful performers, especially those reality show assholes. There's not one redeeming aspect among those tedious freaks.

I don't see the hate for this cute funny Asian-American woman. She's benign. Also, it's about time native New Yorkers had some celebrities who were actually native New Yorkers.

by Anonymousreply 46May 19, 2023 12:55 PM

Chinawoman for the Oriental market. Why are they all so smug?

by Anonymousreply 49May 20, 2023 8:34 AM

Love her. I really thought the last season of NFQ was the last season. The final episode had me bawling. So glad to hear there's more!

by Anonymousreply 52May 23, 2023 2:24 AM

BD Wong is good as Nora's nerdy IT tech father. He recently got fired from his tech job, then had trouble getting a new job.

His character loves music, can play the guitar and is now working at a Sam Ash. He wandered into one, started playing a guitar, a customer thought he worked there, he helped them pick out what was needed, then the manager hired him.

by Anonymousreply 53May 23, 2023 10:24 AM

For some reason, TikTok keeps putting a young Chinese American woman onto my 'For You' page feed who puts out like 20 videos a day lecturing white people about their racism. She is totally condemning. There's no way any white person can do anything right or make amends in her view, and people post comments calling her racist, which result in responses about why their calling her racist is evidence of white supremacy.

I can't get rid of her.

Anyway, after this thread appeared, up popped a video from her condemning Awkwafina! She condemns her for appropriating Black culture. So apparently Asian American people are vulnerable to racism policing by young Asian American people on TikTok, as well, which is somehow a bit heartening.

In case you're wondering, the young policewoman says that Awkwafina can do nothing to redeem herself or to make up for the harm she has caused, but she should nevertheless apologize and 'be her authentic Asian American self' and stop exploiting and harming Black people by imitating them for popularity.

So there you have it!

by Anonymousreply 54May 23, 2023 12:20 PM

Wow so glad I’m not in TikTok who wants to be lectured all day.

by Anonymousreply 55May 23, 2023 3:25 PM

I like her, too. Her name is extremely stupid, though. In my opinion.

by Anonymousreply 57June 15, 2023 6:54 PM

I still can't get past her embarrassing Oscar appearance and cringy shout-out to Spike Lee.

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by Anonymousreply 58June 15, 2023 7:01 PM

She's major cringe. Flavor of the month already a few weeks past its freshness. The new Rebel Wilson, soon to be replaced by whoever.

by Anonymousreply 59June 15, 2023 9:12 PM

R58 OMG the shade Spike Lee throws after she was trying to be so "down" with him.

by Anonymousreply 60June 15, 2023 9:44 PM

R58 She has a very cavernous mouth.

by Anonymousreply 61June 15, 2023 10:03 PM

R62 It's in the video @ R58

by Anonymousreply 63June 16, 2023 12:06 AM

She’s annoying as fuck. Can’t stand her stupid fake blaccent.

by Anonymousreply 64June 16, 2023 12:38 AM

I recommend all my gay brothers watch The Farewell, which is a shockingly good funny/melancholy film about something we all know about, lies within families

by Anonymousreply 65June 16, 2023 12:48 AM

R65 Boring as hell. Two hours of Awkafina looking depressed because grandma's dying and nobody wants to tell her.

by Anonymousreply 66June 16, 2023 12:49 AM

"Cringe". 🤢 🤮 ugh, what a ridiculous dumbass expression.

I HATE that word, I especially can't stand the sheeple who always use it.

Awkwafina is hilarious, I LOVE her series. Perhaps you need to be a native New Yorker from certain neighborhoods to get her comedy. I also enjoy the surreal aspect in some of the episodes. The family dynamite is very true to life.

The grandma. who has a filthy mouth is fucking hilarious. I hope the series is renewed.

by Anonymousreply 67June 16, 2023 1:00 AM

Who cares what Spike Lee thinks, he's tedious and repetitous.

What was his ridiculous with Black and white people fighting about who the neighborhood belonged to? Do The Right Thing? What that blowhard Spike seems to forget that “Black neighborhood" in Brooklyn had been a wealthy area of Jewish professionals.

The Black residents who bought those Fort Greene, Bushwick and Bed-Sty Brooklyn brownstones at low prices were not even native New Yorkers, those new owners had migrated from down South.

Honestly, Spike needs to STFU. I hate gentrification as much as the next person, but he needs to get his damn facts straight.

Ironically, Spike now lives Leonard Bernstein’s Manhattan mansion. Oh the irony!

by Anonymousreply 68June 16, 2023 1:13 AM

Awkwafina seems like someone who'd be on DL seeking new material for her stand-up.

by Anonymousreply 69June 16, 2023 1:15 AM

Halfway through season two and loving every surreal and heartfelt moment. So very creative.

Bowen Yang is surprisingly palatable here since he is usually borderline insufferable.

by Anonymousreply 70October 11, 2023 2:18 PM

[quote] So low energy, practically mumbling through an interview

Press tours like this can be exhausting. Part of it is the extreme repetitiveness.

Millennial actors don’t handle it as well as previous generations did. Unsurprisingly. Yes the press can be stupid but you’re supposed to be a professional and suck it up.

Cara Delevingne is another one who can’t cope with it. She threw a legendary temper tantrum during one a few years back.

by Anonymousreply 71October 11, 2023 3:25 PM

And we all see where that got her.

by Anonymousreply 72October 11, 2023 4:10 PM

[quote] I just started watching Nora From Queens her comedy series now on HBO Max. Very funny.

I forgot about her show. Haven’t watched it in a bit. My favorite episode is when she goes to China (I think it’s China. Might have been Japan) for work. The episode is a good example of the bizarre yet funny vibe of the show.

BD Wong’s character bugs me because the New York accent he tries to put on sounds so fake. I find it distracting.

Side eye to her shout out to Spike Lee though. So transparent.

by Anonymousreply 73October 11, 2023 4:41 PM

She was Awkwardfina at the Academy Awards. Has she released a statement about the look Spike Lee gave during her presentation and, even moreso, has Spike issued an apology?

by Anonymousreply 74October 14, 2023 3:57 AM

Why would someone name themselves after a bottled water?

by Anonymousreply 75October 14, 2023 4:11 AM

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