ICYMI - Awkwafina Talks Going from Hip Hop to Acting with "Ocean's 8" and "Crazy Rich Asians"
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:03.0 | Please welcome Aquafina. |
| 0:06.0 | Oh! |
| 0:09.0 | Oh, my God! |
| 0:12.0 | All right. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:14.0 | And congratulations, first and foremost, I mean, |
| 0:17.0 | I saw you blow up from a few videos that you had online. |
| 0:20.0 | You know, you had some great rap songs that you put out online. |
| 0:23.0 | You blew up. |
| 0:24.0 | And now you are going to be able to sing a song |
| 0:27.0 | that you were in, Ocean's 8, one of the most anticipated movies. |
| 0:30.0 | Has it sunk in? |
| 0:31.0 | No, no, no, no. Yeah. |
| 0:33.0 | I mean, constantly, spooly, far from the house. |
| 0:35.0 | I feel like you deserve it, though, man. |
| 0:37.0 | You're really funny. |
| 0:39.0 | You're great with your music. |
| 0:41.0 | As an actor, you also. |
| 0:43.0 | You've been killing it as well. |
| 0:45.0 | This was one of those roles where I feel like you were perfect for it. |
| 0:48.0 | And I got to watch the movie. |
| 0:50.0 | And what I was most impressed by was you were just your character. |
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