Unlike Awkwafina’s braggadocious rap persona or her zanier characters, the real Nora Lum is humble and self-deprecating
Nora Lum, the actress and rapper better known as Awkwafina, reveals what sitcom changed her life and what she misses the most about living in New York City.In a climactic scene of the film The Farewell, three generations of a Chinese family are leaning hard into a drinking game.
The ostensible reason is a wedding, and they joke and toast the happy couple while the camera swirls woozily around the table. But the unmentioned guest is cancer. It’s spreading through the matriarch grandmother’s lungs, its presence known to everyone except for Nai Nai herself. As the screen frames each face, expressions soften. The entire group is drinking to forget her diagnosis, but also to remember this moment. They relax wordlessly into a cross-generational bond.
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