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- That's my camera.
- Okay.
Sorry. - You don't look at it.
- All right.
Yeah.
- Hi, my name is Zach Galifianakis
and I'm hosting Between Two Ferns,
and my guest today is
Awkwafina,
Awkwafina.
- Awkwafina.
- Like the water?
- Well, it's spelled differently.
- Was Shasta taken?
- Yeah.
- You've been raping since the age of 13.
- Rapping.
Rapping. - That makes more sense.
If you had to choose between rapping and acting,
how could I convince you to choose acting?
- I mean, you could just say so.
- You should just act.
- [Awkwafina} Okay, yeah, sure.
- And then when you're done with acting
in a couple of years.
- Then yeah, okay.
- [Zach] Don't go to rapping.
- Okay. - [Zach] I'm not saying that.
Just go. - Just
get out of the industry.
- I'd say get out of this.
- All right. That's okay, yeah.
- Of all the movies you've been in,
which one do you think is least terrible?
- Least terrible.
- And how many movies have you been in at this point?
- Seven. - Seven?
- Yeah.
- They made six sequels to Crazy Rich Asians already?
- No, no. We just had one.
I was in like other movies.
- How much money did that movie make?
- I think
over 200 million.
- How's bragging cam going?
(Awkwafina sneaking)
- You started, Ocean's 8. It's a great movie.
I'd love to see it all male reboot of Ocean's 8.
That would be nice.
- Yeah, it exists already, a couple of'em.
- Couple of what? Male versions of the female Ocean's 8?
- Ocean's 8 was a reboot of a male.
- The next thing,
you're gonna tell me there's a male Ghostbusters.
- There is,
it's with...
- Leslie Jones.
- No.
- When you were in Crazy Rich agents,
- Asians.
Asians.
- I know how to say it.
- Okay. You said agents.
- I have a crazy rich agent.
- Oh.
- How do you respond to the complaints of the lack
of white representation in Crazy Rich Asians?
I read that you guys did not hire one actor
and put them in Asian face.
- Yeah, well, it's called Crazy Rich Asians,
so we wanted to put Asian people.
- Give whites a chance.
- Yeah, I mean, I get that.
I mean,
there's like a longer history...
- We had a year of like being told
that we're not cool anymore whites.
Okay. We've suffered enough.
- [Awkwafina] Right.
- Let us have it back.
- {Awkwafina} Okay. Sure.
- The entertainment business.
I'm Asian.
- You're Asian?
- Caucasian.
- Oh, there's a 'Cauc' in front there.
- There's a 'Cauc' in front of my Asian.
- Yes. - Would make me Caucasian.
- Is that what you're saying? - [Awkwafina] Mm hm.
I went to a masseuse.
- [Awkwafina] Okay.
- I don't know why I'm telling you this.
But after,
she whispered into my ear,
"Do you want me to make your a banana cry?"
- Did you let her?
- No.
It threw up. - Oh.
Shit.
- And are you a big
BS
- BTS - BTS fan?
- Yeah, I like BTS.
- [Zach] Yeah, they're cool.
- Do you like them?
- Yeah, but my question is, so they just,
they got out of that tunnel
and then they just formed a band,
like they were trapped in that tunnel and then they...
- [Awkwafina] What tunnel?
- Where the boys, the soccer team.
- No, no, no, no, there that's no, that's...
BTS is Korean and those boys were from Thailand.
- That's exactly right.
- [Awkwafina] Okay. - Yeah so they get rescued,
and then who starts the band for'em?
- They're mutually exclusive, so yeah.
- It's unfair that Asian people
get special movies about them.
If you made a movie that just starred people like me,
you will get slammed by the critics, you would.
- They did a movie about you, it's called Heavyweights.
Judd Apatow did it.
It's literally about you.
- You have spoken out against stereotyping
of Asians in film and television.
And I support you in that,
it would be nice if there was someone
that was doing that for the Greeks.
- Yeah,
because clearly you're not all like seven foot tall,
beautiful Greek gods.
Big beautiful, bountiful curls,
strong jaw lines, two separate eyebrows.
So you're not all that,
and you need to represent who you are,
now your just.. - Thank you so much.
I just.
No you. - Okay.
- I just forgot that I have to use the bathroom.
- Should I, is he serious? Or should I?
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