Awkwafina has made a name for herself in comic roles like 'Crazy Rich Asians' and 'Ocean's 8.' But in her new film, 'The Farewell,' she plays Billi, a woman whose grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (hereandnow)
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The family travels back to China for a remarkable ruse. They gather for a phony wedding staged so they can gather around Billi’s beloved grandmother, who doesn’t know she has cancer and maybe weeks to live. “For me personally, it was definitely a departure from a lot of my past roles, but a lot of that had to do with actually confronting things like for maybe the first time in my life,” she tellsRobin Young. “This role caused me to pre-emptively confront the death of my own grandma, which I've always thought about, and I think it taught me to be vulnerable in ways that I really haven't been.”
“There's so much truth no matter what race you are, what you are you will connect to this because we all experience loss, and we all experience love whether it's a grandma or family,” Awkwafina says. “And we know what that's like, and we know what it's like to lose it.”On playing the role of Billi, who is loosely based on writer-director Lulu Wang
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