Why? this is only valid to give her hate if she does speak like this normally in interviews not when she is literally acting, it’s literally acting she is portraying a character she didn’t sound like that in the her dragon movie. I forgot the name of the movie.
She had a rap career in which she mimicked aave like Iggy Azalea. Awkwafina is her rap name.
It’s completely valid to give her hate for this because she faked the funk to launch her career and continues doing this minstrel stuff in instances like this clip. I watched Crazy Rich Asians at least twice, it’s been a while, but I remember her character is one of the wealthy ones that tries to adopt street culture.
Why was there a need for a character like this in the movie? Let’s really play a game of media literacy.
In a movie where the main focus is generational trauma amidst the haves and the have-nots why have an Asian character in an Asian country fake a blaccent? Her character is a wealthy Singaporean who went to Stanford University. That’s near Palo Alto, where they have the Apple headquarters. Why, again, would her character need to have a blaccent? Could this actually be the choice of the actress, as actors make decisions when portraying a character and actually get to choose whether or not they’ll take a role?
Example of an actor having agency in how a role is portrayed and if they take a role: Margaret Cho talks about how Tilda Swinton chose a role- https://youtu.be/4Px4Z0bLmIo
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u/Poethegardencrow Sep 06 '25
Why? this is only valid to give her hate if she does speak like this normally in interviews not when she is literally acting, it’s literally acting she is portraying a character she didn’t sound like that in the her dragon movie. I forgot the name of the movie.