Awkwafina, on Her Own Terms
“Will you excuse me while I just quickly pound a meatball?” Awkwafina does what she wants — and what she wants right now is to make meatballs (definitely not a meatball sub, soggy bread – no thank you). It’s not surprising that the performer — actress, comedian, rapper — is confident and self-assured, having seen her star-making turns as best friend Goh Peik Lin in last summer’s “Crazy Rich Asians,” Constance in “Ocean’s Eight” or any of her early-career rap videos. But her latest project, starring in her first dramatic role as the lead Billi in “The Farewell,” coupled with the sudden fame that has come with her breakout year in 2018, has her digging deeper for that confidence she’s always portrayed with ease. Now that Hollywood is listening, the questions are seeping in: Is she capable of doing drama? Is she funny enough to be a leading actress? And, if all signs point to yes, what does she want to do with her career now that it seems she can do almost anything? “I was used to just having been Awkwafina, and things being flat-paced,” she says. “And then all of a sudden…” The New York native, born Nora Lum, around the beginningFollow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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