AWKWAFINA’S NEXT ACT

In 2016, Awkwafina and I collaborated on “Green Tea,” a rap video send-up of Asian stereotypes, and we became instant friends. Since then she’s shone in and , and is now making her first foray into drama with , a film about a Chinese family that doesn’t tell its matriarch she’s dying, and instead stages one last hurrah. With a Comedy Central series also on the horizon, Awkwafina isn’t just an EGOT in the making—she’s a one-woman revolution. When I watch her onscreen, I experience something that’s