Okay
[laughing]
I'm Awkwafina.
I'm Cate Blanchett.
I'm Sandra Bullock.
I'm still Cate
I'm Sarah Paulson,
and we're playing 'How Well Do You Know Your Co-Stars'
In 2014, I had a viral music hit.
What was it called?
I thought you had a virus?
I had a virus!
Which virus was it?
A debilitating virus, mind you.
What was it called?
A) 'My Vag'
B) 'Ballin' on a Budget'
C) 'Queen of Queens'
D) 'Lady Problems'
—My Vag —My Vagina
[ding]
I love my vag.
What was Cate's first stage role at The National Institute of Dramatic Arts?
'Timmy and the Shrew'!
I have to say the options!
Oh!
Sorry...
I was just going by your personality.
[laughing]
Oh it will be your turn in a minute, baby.
—Ohhh —I hope so
Catherine in Arthur Miller's 'View From The Bridge'
B) 'Electra and Sophocles'—Electra
C) 'Mrs. Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's 'Sweeney Todd'
or D) Ophelia in Shakespeare's "Hamlet'
—Electra —A
What was A?
'View From The Bridge'
and your's is Electra?
BUZZ
—Electra —[ding]
I just touched your breast—almost
How did she know that...
Look at her.
Look, there's Electra!
OHHH!
Is that Cate Blanchett?
That's really good hair and makeup.
Look at that perm. Is that a perm?
Yeah girl! You look electric as Electra.
—Thank you.
—It's amazing
Cate appeared in the 1990's commercial for which Australian product?
Okay. 1990's.
It's a long time...
—Vegemite! —You weren't born
Vegemite!
Can I. Can I...?
Sorry. Go ahead.
Tim Tam's
Vegemite
Four'n Twenty Meat Pies
Violet Crumble Candy Bars
Where...I like...
I want to...
Four'n Twenty Meat Pies.
I just want to see you say that.
Four'n Twenty Meat Pies
Was that it?
—No! —[buzz]
Tim Tam's!
Is is Tim Tam's?
[ding]
Oh here we go!
[ahh]
Look at me!
Ohhh...magic in the Tam's house
It's like, you just even—
she eats well.
She goes like this...
Like, she puts,
"ohhh", like...
You have to close your eyes when you eat a biscuit.
Ohhh, don't you. Obvi...
[laughing]
Which of these extras...
Oh god, it makes me sound sound lame...
Which of these extra curricular activities was Sandra NOT a part of during high school.
And this is what's sad about this.
This is gonna be very telling.
cheerleader
theatre
The model UN club
and gymnastics
The model UN club
—Yes. That's... —[ding]
I should have been, but I wasn't.
—Look at that! —Awww!!!
I did my own hair.
I wrote a NY travel guide called 'Awkwafina's NYC'.
Which of the following is NOT the name of a chapter in the book?
Ohhh!
A) The place where Ben Franklin probably pooped, or how Staten Island won my cold, dead, judgmental heart tour.
B) The 'Sex and the City' tour HBO doesn't want you to go on.
C) The 'Men In Black' tour
or D) The Mr. Wong Fu 'I don't think we're in Kansas anymore' tour of Flushing, Queens.
Men In Black
—No, that was a chapter. —[buzz]
It was?
So, it was the first one?
No. It was the 'Sex and the City'
See, that was my first...
Ohhh...
What was my first experience as a performer?
moonlighting as a party clown in college
a high school production of 'Grease'
small roles as a child in operas starring her mother
a Gerber babyfood commercial
—The opera thing —[ding]
You were a party clown.
[buzz]
She's a party clown, now!
Okay.
Before she started acting, Cate was in Egypt studying to be...
I was in Egypt traveling!
This is where the internet is wrong.
But let's see how they lied.
So, go ahead.
So, I was in Egypt studying to be:
a museum curator
an anthropologist
a linguist
an archaeologist
None of the above...because it's a lie!
Actually, no!
I did want to be one of these things.
archaeologist
a linguist
[buzzing]
a museum curator
—Hmmm —Bam!
Was it boring?
You think it's boring?
What would you want to be?
A linguist.
Okay
Well, duh.
Get goin'
In 'Seinfeld', I didn't know this...
Frank Costanza starts a computer company after watching a provocative movie on cable tv.
It was called 'The Net'.
Who did he say it was starring?
A) America's sweetheart, Sandra Bullock
B) the 'Very Congenial 'actress
C) the brunette which is from 'Practically Magic'
D) that girl from the bus
That girl from the bus!
[ding]
...only 'cause...
you're not the girl from the bus
only 'cause that's the type of joke they'd make.
I am the girl from the bus.
I know you're the girl from the bus...
I saw it!
Ohhh!
OHHH!!!
I get it
But...you were more than that.
You were so much more than the girl from the bus.
That's why I love Cate Blanchett.
According to legend,
ohh, it's legend...
Cate's IMDB page...
Is that legend?
What was her first on-screen credit?
Vivian in 'Police Rescue'
blonde cheerleader in 'Kaboria'
voice in 'Everybody Rides The Carousel'
Kylie Cancaid in "Neighbors'
Sounds like porn!
All of them sound like porn.
Yea....a porn thing is a given.
I would like to hope it's blonde cheerleader in 'Kaboria'
I say C)
which is voice in 'Everybody Rides The Carousel'
—[buzzing] —I don't even know what 'Everyone Rides The Carousel' was.
I'm messing up here.
What was it?
what?
See, I know even more about you than...
No. I did that movie for the falafel.
The falafel didn't arrive so I walked.
I was never in that movie.
What?!
[laughing]
What instrument did Awkwafina play in high school?
A) cello
B) flute
C) trumpet
D) trombone
Trumpet!
[ding]
What language am I fluent in?
Spanish, German, Japanese...Esperanto
German
What's Esperanto?
You said you wanted to be a linguist!
[laughing]
[ding]
You probably do speak the other languages.
No.
No. no.
I graduated college with a double major.
What were those majors?
Music and American History
Women's Studies and Journalism
Theatre and Psychology
Criminology and French
second one
—Yeah it was —third one
Women's Studies and...
[ding]
Did I win?
What does she get?
I thought I nailed...
What do I get?
What does she get?
I nailed, like...
You get a free night at the Holiday Inn
[laughing]
Yeah, what do you get?
What does she get?
Ohh...
I thought we were going to go to Atlantic City.
Thank you for joining us!
Bye Marie Claire.
Thank you!