Awkwafina

Awkwafina is not new to animated films. Also a rapper by profession, she's lent her voice to a number of franchises, from The Angry Birds Movie, The SpongeBob Movie, Raya and the Last Dragon, The Little Mermaid to Migration. However, playing Zhen, a corsac fox, alongside Jack Black's Po in Kung Fu Panda 4 hits at a deeper, more personal level for the actor. Also Read – Jack Black Kung Fu Panda 4 interview: 'We're definitely going to do 5,6,7,8, and 9 but who knows about 10’ Awkwafina interview: The actor plays a…

Rosy Baker has started the new year with a new gig. The publicist has joined the talent team at Kovert Creative, a marketing, communications and entertainment firm. She’ll work out of Kovert’s Los Angeles office and focus on adding to the agency’s talent client roster, which includes stars like Jimmy Kimmel, Jack Black, Wanda Sykes, Amy Poehler, Colin Farrell, John Mulaney, Will Arnett, Dave Bautista, Tracy Morgan, MrBeast, Nathan Fielder, Sam Richardson, Dave Burd (aka Lil Dicky), Nicole Byer,…

At some point or another, almost every actor finds themselves pigeonholed to a certain kind of typecasting. Perhaps it’s action hero movies like Tom Cruise, romantic comedies like Jennifer Aniston, or cheerleader characters like Hayden Panettiere. For Awkwafina, star of Disney’s latest live-action blockbuster The Little Mermaid, it’s… birds.  The 35-year-old actress and comedi-hen is on her way to playing yet another feathered friend in Universal Pictures’ Migration, a story about a family of mallards who embark on a…

Screengrab via Disney Hiya Pals, and to all that come to this happy place, welcome! It’s a great day to be a Disney fan as significant changes linger on the horizon and strong emotions circle fans who are swimming into theaters to see The Little Mermaid this week. Halle Bailey’s Ariel is stealing hearts worldwide and bringing out strong feelings in all of us as she sings her heart out and swims through her world, dreaming of the magic taking place just outside of it. Magic is a big theme for all things Disney,…

Awkwafina photo Unique Nicole/Getty Images, Flounder courtesy Walt Disney Pictures Comedy actress Awkwafina has been getting a lot of attention for playing Scuttlebutt in the live action remake of The Little Mermaid, and not only because people want to stab their eardrums when she sings. In a recent interview with SlashFilm, Awkwafina and costar Jason Tremblay (Flounder) were asked one of the most pertinent questions anyone could ever ask about mermaids: what do they eat? And also, wouldn’t they want to eat…

Awkwafina is detailing how her first time trying to get a fake ID did not go as planned. The Reinfeld star said on Monday’s episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show that when she was a teenager, living in Queens, she and her friends would love taking the subway to other parts of New York City, specifically Time Square. During one of her trips, Awkwafina said she “was walking around and there was like, you know, you just hear like distant voices in the crowd that’s like, ‘Tattoos, piercings, fake IDs.’…

Raya and the Last Dragon — out March 5 in India — is Disney Animation's first original effort in over four years. That last one — before two sequels, 2019's billion-dollar-plus Frozen II, and Ralph Breaks the Internet the year prior — was Moana, centred on a young girl from the Pacific Islands. Moana was Disney's first “princess” from that region, and her appearance in Ralph Breaks the Internet's memorable “Disney Princesses” scene reiterated that diversity, given she was one of a handful (next to Mulan, Jasmine,…

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings — the new Marvel movie, now playing in cinemas — makes some very smart choices. Its villain (and beating heart) is played by Hong Kong screen legend Tony Leung, known for engrossing romantic drama In the Mood for Love and crime thriller Infernal Affairs. Leung is excellent here as a grieving widower who wants the love of his life back, with his raw charisma and menacing energy boosting every scene he is in. The Shang-Chi cast also includes the Malaysian superstar Michelle Yeoh,…

The Bad GuysDir: Pierre PerifelCast (voices): Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Craig RobinsonRating: 3/5 A frenetic animated comedic actioner, this Universal Pictures-Dreamworks team-up based on the kids’ graphic novel series by Aaron Blabey, could well be a much needed nudge towards a reformative criminal justice system. Even though the Bad Guys (serial abusers of the law) are caught in the act, they are able to broker a deal that could keep them out of prison. Bad Guys, tagged as the world’s…