A $500 plane ticket helped actor BD Wong land roles in 'Mr. Robot' and 'Nora From Queens.' (via CNBCMakeIt)
Awkwafina, BD Wong, Bowen Yang of "Awkwafina is Nora from Queens" speak during the Comedy Central segment of the 2020 Winter TCA Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 14, 2020 in Pasadena, California.Audiences may know him for his dramatic work as forensic psychiatrist Dr.
The half-hour scripted comedy is a fictionalized portrayal of Awkwafina's life being raised by her grandmother and father in Flushing, Queens. The 10-episode series was recently renewed for a second season and follows the 27-year-old slacker on her quest to figure out what she wants to do in life. This includes taking up odd jobs as a ride-share driver, on-camera adult performer, and an office assistant who ends up addicted to Adderall, to name a few.his first non-acting job was at a Mrs.
"It was a new and fresh way to say a lot of interesting ideas," Wong says in the Spotlight interview. "And it was the part of a lifetime." He tells Wilson: "I called my parents and said, 'I don't have money to go to an audition that I have no idea what will happen. I just need to have this opportunity. It's a very important one.' And they were extremely supportive and said, 'Well, you must borrow the money from us,' and they lent me the money to go to New York."
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