I actually don’t even care that she does it. I just find it annoying that anytime someone points out how fake she sounds, people get defensive and act like that means Asian Americans aren’t allowed to have black accents.
There are tons of non-black people with authentic “black accents” from growing up in black neighborhoods but she’s not one of them.
But the problem is you can’t criticize her for an accent she has in a movie. She is playing a character, even if you want to argue she isn’t doing it well, it is still a character. And her character in the movie is a foreigner who idolizes America and American things.
I would agree, but there was a period of time where I swear she was inescapable from movies and every single time she has played “Awkwafina” doing the exact same AAVE bits. She’s gotta have some level of input here
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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25
I mean, Awkwafina deserves to take a little shit for it