{"id":28085,"date":"2019-08-01T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1061458"},"modified":"2019-08-01T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:00:02","slug":"awkwafina-says-she-goes-by-michelle-pfeiffer-sometimes-because-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/awkwafina-says-she-goes-by-michelle-pfeiffer-sometimes-because-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Awkwafina Says She Goes By Michelle Pfeiffer Sometimes Because Why Not"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Awkwafina<\/a><\/strong> is a woman of many aliases.<\/p>\n

Born Nora Lum<\/strong>, the 31-year-old Crazy Rich Asians<\/em> actress, comedy star and rapper adopted her stage name when she was a teenager.<\/p>\n

“When I was 15 or 16, I thought the name ‘Awkwafina’ was great, hilarious. I never thought anyone would ever call me that,” she said on Vogue<\/em>‘s “73 Questions” segment. Cut to now, where everyone calls me that. So that’s good.”<\/p>\n

And at Starbucks, she apparently doesn’t make it easy for the baristas; She told Vogue <\/em>she uses a totally different name all together, one most people would not be able to spell off-hand even if they were familiar with the actress in question, especially amid the noise of the coffee machines.<\/p>\n

“I like putting ‘Michelle Pfeiffer<\/a><\/strong>,” Awkwafina said. “All ‘F’s in the ‘Pfeiffer,’ throws them off a little bit.”<\/p>\n

She’s a jokester, that Awkwafina.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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During the interview, Awkwafina was also asked when she first realized she could make people laugh.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“I developed humor as a defense mechanism when I was like, 4,” she said. “Actually, after the passing of my mom. I wanted to be an emblem of joy and not an emblem of sorrow.”<\/p>\n

“I think being a woman in comedy means kind of building up that collective camaraderie with the truths, the sometimes sad and funny truths of being a woman,” she later said. “But also using it to empower, using it to encourage, using it to laugh, to further improve womanhood in general.”<\/p>\n

The star can be seen later this year in the fantasy drama film Paradise Hills<\/em> and in Jumanji: The Next Level<\/em>, and she is also developing her own Comedy Central TV show.<\/p>\n

When asked about spoilers about the series, she jokes, “At the end, everyone dies in the spaceship.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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